Leake County News

As a part of Tornado Awareness Month , the Jackson Weather Examiner will review severe storms that affected the state throughout the month of November.

English instructor Marjory Thrash has been selected to receive the Pearl River Community College Humanities Teacher Award for 2009.

Authorities continued searching Tuesday for seven men who fled a minimum-security facility in Walnut Grove.

Several probationers who absconded from an inmate re-entry facility in Walnut Grove on Sunday still have not been caught.

Two Jones County women plead guilty to embezzlement in Jones County Circuit Court Thursday.

The Mississippi Department Of Transportation officially named a part of Highway 16 in Leake County Friday as the Van T. Barefoot Medal Of Honor Highway.

It is always a tricky thing to rate one class against another, especially when talking about law enforcement officers.

Attala County Sheriff William Lee said three people were charged with possession of precursors to make methamphetamine on Thursday, Aug.

An arrest has been made in a weekend shooting in Leake County. 25-year-old Tarance Johnson was taken into custody Tuesday morning and charged with aggravated assault in a shooting that occurred Saturday.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation announced road closures for a three-county road-improvement project that begins Aug.

A teenager was shot and killed by a Leake County store owner Monday during a robbery, police said.

One suspect is behind bars and another dead after an armed robbery in Leake County.

The Mississippi Supreme Court declined Thursday to hear an appeal from Justin Brent Turner, who was convicted of two counts of DUI manslaughter related to a 2006 crash.

Pearl's eight tennis courts will now be available for playing until midnight. The city's parks and recreation department director, Mike Goolsby, said timers were installed that allow users to turn on lights, so tennis players can continue playing once city staff leaves at 9 p.m. "Lifetime sports - you got to try to promote them," Goolsby said.

Madison County will appoint a special committee to examine the county's engineering contract practices.

The sometimes dangerous currents of Mississippi's rivers aren't always evident. Already this year, 20 people have died in fresh water drownings in Mississippi, including five in the Pearl River, officials said.

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Officials in Leake County have identified the victim of Sunday's drowning in the Pearl River as 17-year-old Frederick Robby Jones of Brandon.

A Brandon teen drowned Sunday while swimming in the Pearl River. It happened around 1 p.m. just south of Carthage in Leake County.

Today is the big day for the much anticipated digital TV signal switch. You should be ready by now.