Lamar County News

Some Pine Belt school districts flourished while others flopped under the state's new accountability system that more rigorously measures student achievement and growth.

The federal government is continuing its auctions of travel trailers left in the Pine Belt following Hurricane Katrina.

About 10 minutes after the Lamar County Board of Supervisors adopted the county's first zoning ordinance and map Thursday morning, Dale Lucus walked past with a word of advice.

A 24 year old USM student from Sumrall was killed Wednesday night when a cement truck crashed into the rear of the farm tractor he was driving.

A judicial watchdog has recommended the state Supreme Court publicly reprimand and temporarily suspend a justice court judge in Lamar County.

At times, Mike Pitts has found himself stranded shoe-deep in water by the shoulder of the road to avoid being yanked into the draft of an 18-wheeler trundling along Lincoln Road.

Cory Maye has won a new trial in the slaying of a Prentiss police officer because a judge denied Maye his constitutional right to be tried in south Mississippi's Jefferson Davis County.

Lamar County residents will have one more chance to weigh in on a proposed zoning ordinance before the Board of Supervisors votes on the regulations that would take effect on Jan.

A Lamar County man was killed in a single vehicle accident Friday evening. The victim has been identified as Jeremy paschal, 20.

GEORGE COUNTY and LAMAR COUNTY a ' Sen. Thad Cochran and Sen. Roger Wicker announced approval of more than $4.83 million in federal funding to support the construction of community saferoom facilities in George and Lamar counties in South Mississippi.

Lamar County School District will be recognized as one of the top school districts in the state in Jackson on Tuesday for meeting benchmarks in the state's new accountability system.

To sell hard liquor in recently-annexed portions of Lamar County was an important question that was decided last week by just four Hattiesburg voters.

Nick Welch said there still remains every intention of relocating Big Buck Sports, expanding on an 11-acre site further west along U.S. 98 in Lamar County.

Lamar and George counties are receiving millions of federal dollars to build community safe rooms where people can seek temporary shelter from disasters.

Next school year, Lamar County students will have a lot in common - mainly all wearing collared shirts with navy, black or khaki bottoms.

A mandatory dress code will take effect in August for Lamar County schools. Students will be required to wear collared shirts with navy, black or khaki bottoms.

November is National Adoption Month and Mississippi has hundreds of children waiting for loving adults to welcome them into their family.

Incumbent Pearl River County District 5 school board member Margie Creel will face off with challenger Twila Crabtree in a Pearl River County school board election on Tuesday.

Officials at one Pine Belt high school are considering guidelines for senior portraits after the superintendent of Copiah County schools recently refused to include a lesbian student's picture in the yearbook.

Lamar County received 27 computers last week donated for use by volunteer fire departments to take computer-based training classes.