Scooba News

Students at East Mississippi Community College in Scooba received their diplomas during a ceremony held there on Saturday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Ball ruled Friday that 25-year-old Shamarius Ruffin should be jailed until a grand jury meets.

Authorities tell The Clarion-Ledger 54-year-old Jesse Mae Brown Pollard was charged last week with taking Jashayla Markayia Hopson from East Kemper Elementary School in Scooba, Miss.

When the 911 call rang through to the Lauderdale County E911 center Wednesday afternoon, it only took seconds for two dispatchers teaming on the call to realize a kidnapped child had been found.

The abduction of the student from East Kemper Elementary has prompted an internal investigation by the Kemper County School District.

Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for a Kemper County girl who was taken from her elementary school on Tuesday afternoon.

Greg Briggs, of Porterville, joins two lengths of PVC pipe to construct a pond siphon while Tom Roberson, from the Scooba area, supports the run from below.