Kemper County News

The Winston County Sheriff's Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics in a joint effort arrested four persons for drugs and other charges.

Mississippi ratepayers are still reeling over the state Legislature passing a law this year allowing utilities to charge for power plants they haven't - and might not - build.

Top Democratic Party leaders were elected today during a meeting in Jackson. The executive committee met at the Regency Hotel.

The severe thunderstorms were capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph.

Bond was set at $2 million each for a pair of bank robbery suspects in Kemper County.

Two men are being held in a Sumter County, Alabama jail as investigators and federal agents try to determine if they were responsible for the robbery of a Scooba bank.

"Clean coal" is a relatively new phrase. "Dirty coal" is a much more familiar utterance, and more in keeping with coal's bad reputation.

A man arrested late Friday night after he allegedly assaulted a woman with a gun was placed on $50,000 bond Monday in Lauderdale County Justice Court.

After more than six years, an inmate has been charged in the 2002 murder of local catfish farmer, Charles Green.

Some of Mississippi's most popular bass fishing lakes, including Ross Barnett Reservoir, have benefitted from a excellent year of Florida bass production at the state's new hatchery.

A man serving a prison sentence for manslaughter is a suspect in another homicide after DNA testing linked him to the 6-year-old slaying of an Attala County catfish farmer.

“We just need to make sure (pollworkers) have good training and good courtesy to voters all the time”

Utility companies will be able to seek rate hikes before building certain plants. via The Clarion-Ledger

Gov. Haley Barbour signed bills Monday to allow utility companies to raise rates to pay for new power plants before they are built, as well as measures to strengthen ethics laws and protect waterways. via Sunherald.com

“But I think they should be able to tell us why we was terminated.”

Two former employees at the Kemper-Neshoba Correctional Facility attended the Kemper County board of supervisors meeting Monday. via WTOK

A Kemper County supervisor, currently under indictment, took his seat at the bi-weekly supervisors meeting Monday. via WTOK-TV Meridian

Kemper County Supervisor Chris Cole has been indicted on two counts of possession of stolen property. via The Mississippi Press

“We just take one time a year to do that. And other times of the year, we honor other people, different ways”

Kemper County's Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Business and Industry Luncheon Thursday. via WTOK-TV Meridian

“Katrina taught us a lesson so we will have generators at each well area”

On a warm spring day, the only relief can be shade and a cold glass of water. "My doctor told me to drink more water, anyway, so I'm drinking it," said Kipling Water Association customer, Irene Rush. via WTOK

“This bill in our opinion is absolutely in the best interest of our customers”

Representatives of Mississippi Power Co. told a House committee Tuesday they need the option to raise rates to pay for power plants before those plants are built or they won't be able meet energy demands by the ... via Sunherald.com

East Mississippi has an abundance of helping hands. We learned many years ago the importance of the community working together; solving problems, mending broken hearts, answering needs, and most importantly, ... via Meridian Star