Wesson News

Tennessee picked up its second junior college commitment of the weekend on Sunday when receiver Kenbrell Thompkins pledged to be a Vol.

Three high school marching bands continued the Pine Belt's tradition of exceptional music programs by placing in the top six in their divisions at the Mississippi Marching Band Championship last weekend.

An openly gay teenager posing in a tuxedo for her high school year book has garnered national attention.

When I picked up my newspaper this morning, I was shocked to turn to a page with these two stories: " Louisiana Justice of peace turns away interracial couple " and " Mississippi teen fights ban on tux ." Is this not 2009? Are we not done fighting these issues? Haven't interracial couples been allowed to marry since 1967 and Supreme Court case of ...

Tennessee is in prime position to raid Mississippi for the state's best football recruits.

A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep a teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook.

The American Civil Liberties Union is taking on the case of a gay high school student whose senior portrait is being denied placement in the yearbook.

A fifth person has been charged in connection with the rape of a Copiah-Lincoln Community College student, the Copiah County Sheriffa TMs Office said.

Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it.But when Sturgis - an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school's soccer team - wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the 2009-10 yearbook, school officials balked.

A picture is causing quite the controversy down at Wesson Attendance Center in Wesson, Mississippi.

Police at Copiah-Lincoln Community College made the fifth and final arrest in connection with the alleged gang rape of female student.

Police made a fourth arrest Monday in connection with the rape of a Copiah-Lincoln Community College student, officials said.

Mr. and Mrs. Brent Walters of Petal announce the engagement of their daughter, Nancy Katherine Walters, to Zachary Felix Ray, son of Mr.

Q: Dear Jack, I saw somewhere that there will be a gun show in town. Can you find out more details about it? Thanks.

It seems surveillance cameras are everywhere capturing heroic acts on a school bus, eratic drivers and business owner's playing dirty.

In Wesson, Miss., Denise Guidry works one of her three jobs. Her family has been living in an RV since her husband lost a well-paying job.

Wesson Police and Copiah County Sheriff's Deputies are looking for a murder suspect.

A 24-year-old man is behind bars accused of a deadly pawn shop robbery in the town of Wesson.

A Copiah County man wanted in the shooting death of a Wesson pawnshop owner was captured earlier today.

A longtime pawn-shop owner is dead, the apparent victim of an armed robber. It happened just after 2:00 Tuesday afternoon at the Wesson Pawn and Gun shop on U.S. Highway 51.