Yazoo City News

The ambience of downtown Ocean Springs framed the art, crafts and merchandise that lined streets filled with thousands of shoppers for the 31st annual Peter Anderson Festival on Saturday.

Former shotgun world champion John Satterwhite has another series of free shooting classes scheduled for November at the Turcotte Education and Shooting Center on Mississippi 43 near Ross Barnett Reservoir.

Lauren Elizabeth Lee and Brant James Ryan were married in a late afternoon ceremony at First Baptist Church, Clinton, August 8, 2009.

In a season of bitter arguments over health care and bank bailouts, millions of Americans happily united Saturday in a common mission - to improve the lives of others on Make A Difference Day.

A 15-year-old female student who displayed a loaded .380 semiautomatic handgun on a Yazoo County school bus last month won't be charged as an adult.

A Hinds County administrator's acceptance of an outside job has raised questions about whether her double-booking comes at the expense of taxpayers.

Classes were canceled at Woolfolk Middle School Wedneday. Administrators said heavy rains pushed water under the doors of the school.

Heavy overnight rain forced the closing today of Woolfolk Elementary School, 209 E 5th St.

Police arrested three men -- who were all dressed in women's clothes -- Tuesday in connection with a robbery in Ridgeland.

The number of newly laid-off Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level since early January, as layoffs eased a bit amid a fledgling economic recovery.

A Brandon man died Friday after being shot by a Yazoo County sheriff's deputy, officials said.

Officials in Yazoo County say a deputy who responded to a disturbance call has been involved in a deadly shooting.

Mississippi Home of Your Own will sponsor a free, one-day homebuyer education workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct.

There are three things that seem to be on the minds of freshmen in their first semester at Ole Miss: the Grove, the dorms and Rush.

It's September in the South, and the spider lilies have begun to bloom again. There they are, with their long, green leafless stalks and crowns of crimson flowers, looking a bit like red daddy longlegs.

Just when it looked like the 2009 alligator season on Barnett Reservoir would pass without a monster lizard and a great story ... At about midnight Friday, seven guys on the river north of Ratliffs Ferry spotted a pair of big red eyes in their spotlight - a bull gator.

A YAZOO CITY COUPLE IS BEHIND BARS FOR GROWING MARIJUANA. JOSEPH AND SHELLEY WILLIAMS, BOTH 57-YEARS-OLD, WERE ARRESTED AT THEIR YAZOO CITY HOME ON THURSDAY.

YAZOO CITY, Miss. - Yazoo County District Attorney James Powell said he's reviewed preliminary assessments of a 14-year-old girl accused of threatening students with a gun on a school bus, but he hasn't decided whether she'll be charged as an adult.

The Barnett Reservoir's first weekend alligator season has ended with several big catches, including a state record.

The Barnett Reservoir's first weekend alligator season has ended with several big catches, including a state record.