Jackson County News

PASCAGOULA Mississippi is "in for tough times," Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant told Jackson County Chamber of Commerce members at a Friday luncheon.

George County officials have agreed on May 8 as the date for a celebration of the county's 100th birthday.

Troy Frisbie defeated longtime incumbent Thomas Tootle in Tuesday's election for a spot on the Jackson County School District's board of trustees representing District 5, according to unofficial election results.

Paul McGarry, a forensic pathologist, told jurors Wednesday that Remika Chanel Patton did not shoot herself the night she died, as her husband alleged in a 911 call.

PASCAGOULA The pace of swine flu vaccinations has accelerated with the Monday delivery of inoculations to county health departments.

Four people have been arrested after narcotics agents found evidence of 3 inactive methamphetamine labs and chemicals used to make the drug at a residential day care in Ocean Springs, said Curtis Spiers, commander of the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County.

Lawyers for Jennifer Lisa Benton said in opening arguments Tuesday that she was acting in self-defense when she fatally shot husband James M. Benton four years ago.

One of the largest government buildings in Jackson County will soon undergo a facelift.

The state Court of Appeals has thrown out the murder conviction of John Edward Johnson and ordered him resentenced for manslaughter.

Two Moss Point residents are on trial for murder in separate cases this week in Jackson County Circuit Court, with the first beginning Monday afternoon with jury selection.

PASCAGOULA Jackson County supervisors are seeking volunteers to help make sure everyone gets counted in the 2010 Census.

PASCAGOULA Testimony is expected to begin this morning in the capital murder trial of Darwin Marquel Wells Jr.

The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will hold its 66th Annual Membership Meeting this week at the LaFont Inn Hotel and Conference Center in Pascagoula with Lt.

A Moss Point man in custody on felony charges Friday is accused in two shootings, one at a home in Moss Point and the other on a city street in Pascagoula, though no injuries were reported, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

Jackson County's District Attorney says a jury's decision to convict a Moss Point teenager of murder instead of capital murder should not affect the upcoming trials of two alleged co-conspirators. Lawyers for Darwin Wells, 16, didn't dispute Wells was the trigger man in the killing of a Hattiesburg man who had stopped at a gas station last year to ...

Two women have been arrested on embezzlement charges. Jackson County authorities says 25-year-old Michelle Thomas Richardson, president of the PTO for East Central Upper Elementary in Hurley, was arrested and charged with taking more than $3,000 from the Parent Teacher Organization's account.

A Jackson County Circuit Court jury is deliberating whether 16-year-old Darwin Marquel Wells Jr.

Circuit Court Judge Dale Harkey denied a request this afternoon for a change of venue in the capital murder case of a teen accused in the Oct.

Jackson County sheriff's investigators this week arrested Vincent Salvador Drummond, 48, of Gautier and charged him with cyberstalking in connection with the use of cellphone texting.

Trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court for a 16-year-old accused in the slaying of a Hattiesburg man killed last year after he stopped at a Moss Point gas station to ask directions to a football game.