Vicksburg News

The Vicksburg Child and Parent Center will host Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan on Saturday, July 27 in Vicksburg, Miss.

If there is one herb my wife and I love to grow more than the rest, it has to be basil.

Phyllis Kelly of Prentiss still gets tears in her eyes as she recounts being struck by lightning in 2010.

With two weeks left before the state-mandated deadline for the Vicksburg Warren School District to adopt a budget, three of five board members have said they will not support a tax increase to make up for a potential $7.7 million deficit for the 2013-14 school year.

Members of a Mississippi church are vowing to rebuild after a lightning strike sparked a fire that destroyed the building on Sunday .

When Anguilla Mayor Merlin Richardson takes his oath of office July 1, it will be the 10th time, and he will be expanding a record no other mayor in Mississippi can touch.

A 24-year-old man charged with aggravated assault for attacking a female worker at the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg has been found competent to stand trial.

MMOT Teen Contestants sponsored by the Hattiesburg-based Leaf Foundation fared well at the ninth Annual Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen Pageant held recently in Vicksburg.

If there is one herb my wife and I love to grow more than the rest, it has to be basil.

The 2013 Miss Mississippi Pageant will usher in a new era of fan-friendly technology with a completely redesigned website, the pageant's first ever web-based app, and the new Mississippi's Choice Award, which will be decided online by the fans, pageant organizers say.

The fatal stabbing of an inmate at the State Penitentiary at Parchman on Tuesday was followed by a melee Wednesday that left 11 inmates and five staff members injured.

ANGUILLA -- When Anguilla Mayor Merlin Richardson takes his oath of office July 1, it will be the 10th time and he will be expanding a record no other mayor in Mississippi can touch.

Copies of videos from security cameras on the old U.S. Highway 80 bridge over the Mississippi River will cost the public $500 each.

Rochelle Thomas was killed in a car accident in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 2004. Her family was buried at Heavenly Rest in Clarksdale shortly after.

The city of Vicksburg hasn't decided what to do with six former transit system buses that are too expensive to run or repair.

Miss America Mallory Hagan is coming to Vicksburg July 27. The Alabama native is coming to raise money for the Exchange Clubs Child and Parent Center, according to WAPT.

Authorities say a Vicksburg woman armed with a copy of a Girl Scouts cookie order form allegedly bilked $1,000 from customers who thought they had placed legitimate orders.

Here's something we can take away from all the speeches and ceremonies regarding the 50th anniversary of the murder of Medgar Evers: He didn't ask for anything extra.

The 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 25th,27th, 29th and 33rd Wisconsin Infantry regiments, the 1st, 6th, 7th and 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries and the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry were among Union forces surrounding the city.

Democrat George Flaggs says he'll resign from the Mississippi House on June 30, the same day he's being inaugurated as the new mayor of Vicksburg.