Forrest County News

A Hattiesburg man was arrested Thursday and charged with kidnapping in connection to an April disturbance call, when police said he held a woman against her will.

Forrest County Sheriff's Department deputies arrested one man in connection to a copper theft Tuesday, one of two copper-related thefts that day.

Outrageous gas and diesel costs have tightened this year's operating budget for Forrest County Schools by adding $150,000 to cover future increases, Superintendent Debbie Burt said Thursday.

From the outside of Tracy and Judith Kennedy's modest Hillendale home, life appears normal.

The victim of a Hattiesburg shooting has been identified as 22-year-old Larry Dale Blakely.

The death of a Hattiesburg couple found dead last week in their Hillendale Drive home has been officially ruled a murder-suicide. Tracy Kennedy shot his wife Judith Kennedy in the head first and then he shot ...

Hattiesburg police officers were at the Criminal Investigations offices of the Picayune Police Department on Tuesday escorting two of three suspects from Picayune wanted in connection with a homicide in ...

The Forrest County Board of Supervisors was forced to reallocate $100,000 from its general funds into the fuel budget for the Sheriff's Department Tuesday during a special-called meeting Tuesday.

A reader sends the following exchange , taken from a murder trial in Hattiesburg, Mississippi this week.

A public hearing is scheduled to be held at Forrest County Agricultural High School to discuss the proposed school budget.

The Hattiesburg Police Department spent a long Monday afternoon poring over the scene at 206 Kimball Ave.

After his girlfriend's 14-month-old son died in March 2004, Christopher Logan initially told police the child suffocated when a mattress fell onto him.

The Deep South Crawfish Cluster Dog Show returns to the JL Cartlidge Forrest County Multi Purpose Center June 25 - " 29.

The National League of Junior Cotillions, Greater Hattiesburg Chapter, recently held its annual spring ball at the Jackie Dole Sherrill Community Center.

Superintendent Elizabeth Yankay said Friday the school board for Forrest County Agricultural High School will request a 4 percent mill increase from taxpayers to cushion budget cuts.

Forrest County Schools will hold a public hearing June 26 for citizens to discuss the district's $22.8 million proposed budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year.

Offering a different kind of after-school activity, Lissa Ortego has made a career by combining two of her passions - children and art.

The human remains found on a Mississippi National Guard base are a Kentucky guardsman who disappeared in 2007, two days before his unit left for Iraq, the military confirmed Friday.

If George Stevens has his way, automatic external defibrillators will be strewn from one end of Lamar County to the other.

A George County man who is charged with killing an endangered black bear was released on bond today.