Copiah County News

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.

A Wesson pawnshop owner was shot and killed Tuesday during an apparent armed robbery, police said.

A Copiah County man wanted in the shooting death of a Wesson pawnshop owner has been arrested.

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.

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