Marion County News

The Mississippi Department of Transportation has lowered the weight limit on the Harper's Creek Bridge on Mississippi 35 in Marion County to 10,000 lbs.

Marion County authorities have arrested six people for stealing railroad parts. They have been charged with grand larceny after investigators said they stole about 4,000 railroad anchors which were being used as replacement parts on the tracks near White Bluff.

A Marion County woman died Saturday after she being ejected from her vehicle near the intersection of U.S. Highway 49 and Mississippi Highway 42.

A Marion County man and a Mississippi woman are in custody for posing as police officers after they were accused of abducting the man's estranged wife from a motel where she worked.

LUMBERTON - LUMBERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY is collecting canned and boxed goods all this month for Barn Church's Food Pantry in Poplarville in honor of National Library Week.

Emergency crews were called out Saturday to McLaurin after flooding along Black Creek trapped at least six individuals in their homes near Churchill Drive, including one who refused to leave.

Emergency management officials in the Pine Belt will be casting wary glances at the ground and the sky today as another storm cell is expected to move into the area this afternoon.

Big Bay Lake is on its way back. The massive, concrete skeleton for the new earthen dam has been completed, and sometime this summer, the process of refilling the largest private lake in Mississippi should be under way.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for Marion County and Lamar County until 10:30 p.m. The warning includes west Hattiesburg.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for parts of south Mississippi, including Forrest, Lamar, Covingtion and Jones.

A judge has given attorneys more time to file briefs in a lawsuit filed after the 2004 collapse of the Big Bay Lake dam in Lamar County.

PURVIS - Determination of basic of facts. Clarifications. Requests to file supplemental briefs.

A Marion County man was found guilty of possession of cocaine charges in the county's circuit court, District Attorney Hal Kittrell announced Friday.

The three state inmates who today escaped along with five other county inmates from the Marion/Walthall Correctional Facility have been captured.

Seven of eight inmates who escaped from the Marion County jail Monday morning are now back in custody.

COLUMBIA - Marion County Sheriff Berkley Hall said some staff would be fired at the Marion-Walthall Correctional Facility after eight prisoners chiseled through a wall early Monday morning and escaped.

Authorities in south Mississippi were searching Tuesday for one inmate still at large after eight prisoners apparently managed to chip through a jailhouse wall with an improvised chisel and escape.

Seven of the eight inmates who used part of a bed to chip through a wall and escape from a south Mississippi jail were still on the loose Monday evening.

Of the eight inmates who escaped earlier this morning from the Marion-Walthall Correctional Facility, one is a suspect in a capital murder case and the other is serving a life sentence in a slaying.

I am searching for information and decendents of Martin and Nancy Lewis. Martin and Nancy left NC around 1810 for Marion County Mississippi.