Montgomery County News

A Wal-Mart employee tried to stop Derrick Watkins as he allegedly made away with about $500 worth of audio-video merchandise.

Trial dates have been set for two people charged with perjury during Curtis Flowers' fifth murder trial in Montgomery County last year.

A 29-year-old Delta Correctional Facility inmate who escaped during an eye exam in Greenwood, Miss., has been captured.

Some 400 supervisors from all 82 counties in Mississippi are meeting in Biloxi this week.

Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County - where about two-thirds of the population is white - almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971.

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The spring football jamboree set for Ethel High School has grown by 50 percent. East Webster will now join Montgomery County and Ethel for the May 14 event, which is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Ethel began spring practice today at 3 p.m. For more information on spring football practice check out this week's edition of the Star-Herald which is set ...

I take exception with The Gazette's premise that Montgomery County runs a "good" red light camera system, versus New Carrollton's mistakenly ticketing drivers that did not run the light .

Nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina washed away homes, businesses and livelihoods, some Hancock County, Miss., residents are plagued by the what-if questions.

Meth lab discovered in Choctaw County A methamphetamine lab was discovered in Choctaw County, March 31, by the Choctaw County Sheriff's Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.

Montgomery County police say a deer being chased by two dogs crashed through a front window of a restaurant before it was put down in the bakery section of a grocery store.

GREENWOOD - A bill pending in a House committee would make it easier for prosecutors to seat unbiased juries in highly sensationalized trials, according to its chief proponent.

Janice Johnson told a gymnasium full of fifth-graders the story of a little girl who cheated on a test, started drinking and began experimenting with drugs.

A project started by people in Bucks and Montgomery counties of Pennsylvania to help rebuild a Mississippi town ravaged by Hurricane Hatrina takes another step forward on Friday.

A trespassing charge against civil rights activist Dorothy Tillman was dropped as part of a settle ment with a Montgomery hospital, her lawyer said Tuesday.

The Attala County Sheriff's Department worked several cases of theft last week. Sheriff William Lee said Pete Swell reported two four-wheelers were taken from his hunting camp on Attala County Road 3225.

The Progress-Times presents a summary of stories of note during 2008 in Webster County.

Authorities say a 15-year-old boy stole his father's guns as part of a suicidal plan to attack enemies at a suburban Philadelphia high school.