Hinds County News

A federal judge will allow reporters to have access to pre-sentencing letters written on behalf of former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter.

Hinds County supervisors today again delayed a vote on an agreement with a juvenile detention watchdog group that would mandate certain changes at the Henley-Young center in Jackson.

A Jackson man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for causing the 2007 crash that killed a Clinton firefighter and his wife in a two-car accident at I-55 and Siwell Road in Byram.

In its regularly scheduled meeting Monday, the Hinds County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to promote Mr.

Supervisors this morning chose Assistant Hinds County Attorney Sherri Flowers to assume the job of the county's top prosecutor.

Multiple interstate lanes in the metro area will close this weekend, barring rain delays, so the Mississippi Department of Transportation crews can do needed improvement work.

Police believed a burned vehicle found Sunday morning could be related to the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian.

Clinton Public Schools could be the next district in the state to adopt a 10-point grading scale.

Fifteen subdivisions in Hinds County have 30 days to get streets in their neighborhoods up to par before the county files a lawsuit against them.

Newly appointed Hinds County Circuit Judge Malcolm Harrison will take the oath of office during a Friday ceremony in Jackson.

Hinds County has sent a letter to 13 developers demanding that they submit by the end of November their plans to fix substandard roads in subdivisions.

On the same day the U.S. District Court set a sentencing date for former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter, the governor appointed his successor.

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.

A union that represents striking Hinds County School District bus drivers met Friday with First Student, the company that employs the drivers.

Bus drivers for Hinds County schools followed through on their promise to strike today.

Workers Seeking Comparable Wages To Other Mississippi First Student Drivers JACKSON, Miss., Oct.

Hinds County bus drivers will walk out at 4 a.m. Thursday, according to a statement the Union released this afternoon.

A wreck Friday night may have cost Raymond's volunteer fire department a truck. Firefighters were leaving a fire on Thigpen Road around 10:30 p.m. and traveling down Midway Road when a car struck the truck.

State lawmakers could discuss legislation during their next session that would give police the ability to distinguish sex offenders by simply looking at their driver's license.

The union representing bus drivers in four Mississippi school districts decided to delay a planned strike pending a court hearing scheduled for this morning, according to media accounts.