Copiah County News

A drug arrest has lead to the recovery of a Copiah County sheriff's deputy's service weapon.

A murder suspect in Copiah County made a deal to avoid the death penalty. 29-year-old Arther Lestrick was found guilty of capital murder in connection with a February shooting at a Gallman Stuckey's. But during the sentencing phase, he pleaded guilty in a plea deal and received life in prison without parole.

On Thursday, the owners of 508 Park Avenue will ask the City Plan Commission for permission to demolish the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Charlie Parker once recorded.

The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson's life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.

Eight people have been arrested in Copiah County in what authorities are calling a prescription forgery ring.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals will convene on the Mississippi State University campus later this month and hear two cases one originating from Starkville.

Sister Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth, president and CEO of St. Dominic Health Services, is being rewarded for outstanding community leadership by the Andrew Jackson Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

JACKSON - The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked trial judges why they have not ruled on post-conviction claims of nine death row inmates.

A 29-year-old Terry man is facing three counts of aggravated assault and one count of shooting into an occupied dwelling in connection with shooting outside a makeshift bar.

Officials at one Pine Belt high school are considering guidelines for senior portraits after the superintendent of Copiah County schools recently refused to include a lesbian student's picture in the yearbook.

A student at a public high school in Copiah County, Miss. is fighting back after being excluded from her high school yearbook for wearing men's clothing in her class photo.

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.

A lesbian student in Mississippi is fighting to make her school use a photograph of her dressed in a tuxedo in her senior yearbook.

A fourth arrest has been made in the alleged rape of a student at Copiah-Lincoln Community College.

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

Three teens are in jail charged in the alleged gang rape of a female student at Copiah-Lincoln Community College.

Police on Wednesday continued to investigate the March slaying of a Crystal Springs mother of four.

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

Twenty-four-year-old Erik Hollie of Hazlehurst, Mississippi has been charged with capital murder and armed robbery.

A manhunt is underway in Copiah County following the murder of a Wesson store owner.