Jones County News

Authorities are investigating an early morning fire that destroyed a single-family wood framed home at 290 Royce Road in the Hebron Community Monday.

Jones County and the surrounding areas have been declared primary natural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture , due to crop losses by severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.

James Arnold Flowers isn't sure how he survived the hellish trek through the Philippines, passing the corpses of fallen comrades and beset by atrocities so extreme that it became known as the Bataan Death March.

Autopsy results are not yet complete on the 16-year-old Laurel girls who died in October after being arrested by local law officials.

The Jones County Board of Supervisors has taken another step in bringing the new Jones County Department of Human Services building to Laurel.

ELLISVILLE - Nontraditional students seeking an education at Jones County Junior College will have a little help from the Jones County Supervisors.

Jones County residents were expected to receive strong winds and rain into this morning as remnants of Tropical Storm Ida blow into the area.

A solid crowd attended a VeteranA's Day program Wednesday at the Laurel Veterans Memorial Museum.

Three teenagers were sent to South Central Regional Medical Center around 7 p.m. Tuesday night after their vehicle left the roadway on Hopson Trailer Road and crashed into a tree.

Two Jones County men were arrested over the weekend in separate burglaries. Deputies arrested and charged Richard Maples, 19, of Ellisville with residential burglary after he busted out windows to gain entrance to a home on the 500 block of Lower Myrick Road.

Dixie Electric Power Association crews are working in Wayne County to restore electricity to nearly 2,000 accounts.

Two Jones County men were arrested for their alleged involvement in two separate incidences, officials said today.

With Hurricane Ida battering Nicaragua, Don McKinnon, executive director of the Jones County Emergency Management Agency said plans are on hold until next week to combat what may be the last hurricane of the season.

The Jones County School District is partnering with the Mississippi Department of Health to provide free H1N1 flu vaccinations to all students.

A Jones County man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of an elementary school teacher.

Ellisville aldermen have cleared the way for the sale of beer and light wine within city limits.

One of the two inmates who escaped Friday from the Jones County Adult Detention Facility in Ellisville is back behind bars.

A multiple story home at 551 Buffalo Hill Road, just off Highway 29, north in Ellisville was completely destroyed by fire Saturday night.

Fire destroyed a home near Ellisville early Sunday morning. The fire was reported around 1:00 a.m. at a home on Buffalo Hill Road.

Jones County deputies today are searching for two Jones County inmates who walked away from the recreation yard shortly after 2 p.m. Sheriff Alex Hodge said Claude Johnson, 32, last known address at 18 James Parrish Road in Laurel; and Ira Hadley Jr., 17, last known address at 317 West 17th St.