Leake County News

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.

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Desks, chairs, file cabinets and bookcases are being loaded up onto a trailer, bound for Leake County.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is providing money for projects at several airports around the state, according to Mississippi senators, Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker.

Leake and Walthall counties have started juvenile drug court programs. The two programs are the first in the state to operate at the chancery court level under the supervision of part-time youth court referees.

Various law enforcement agencies received reports of damage associated with Sunday night's storms.

House damaged after tree topples onto home. James Gray woke up startled early Saturday morning after a tree came crashing down onto his home.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol released new details today about an accident which claimed the lives of two Mississippi State University students.

Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash in Leake County over the weekend. Bradley Gibson and Lindsey Hill, both of Starkville, Miss., died in the Sunday afternoon crash.

A crash in Leake County claims the lives of two Mississippi State University Students- one of them the son of Terry High School baseball coach Jerry Gibson.

Two Mississippi State University students, including a Heritage Academy graduate from Columbus, are dead after a car accident near Carthage in Leake County.

During a safety point check in Kosciusko Monday, a vehicle tried to evade the area, a Kosciusko Police Department press release said.

The Kosciusko Police Department aided in the arrest of a Leake County man. KPD officers served an arrest warrant at the Super 8 Motel and arrested David Chipley, 28.