Newton County News

After a change of attorneys and a refiling of briefs, Mississippi death row inmate Howard Dean Goodin will argue before state's highest court that he is mentally disabled and should not be put to death.

Heat Index: 96 F The Mississippi Department of Transportation announced updates on projects in Newton, Lauderdale, and Neshoba counties.

Now serving as Campus Police Chief, Williams worked for 11 years with the Mississippi Department of Corrections as a probation and parole officer as well as serving as a police officer in Newton.

Despite a caustic letter sent to Newton residents four days before the mayoral election that tried to set race relations back in the town by 40 years, David Carr was able to comfortably win the mayor's seat Tuesday with 68 percent of the vote.

In any major undertaking such as the one the size of the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery , baby steps must be taken during the course of the project.

A Newton city park that was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is getting some repairs as part of a community project.

Mississippi motorists' love affair with specialty car tags has grown by leaps and bounds.

At first Joe Johnson was unsure if he wanted to talk about his service during WW II as a member of a heavy mortar battalion attached to the 1st Infantry Division .

Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer in one way or another. For Pat Dean, the second year event chairperson for the Newton Relay for Life fundraising campaign, it was her sister who in 2000 succumbed to colon cancer.

A tornado struck in Jasper County, just south of the Newton County line, damaging several homes.

Slideshow from Day One of the Clarkdale Spring Fling fast pitch tournament at Northeast Park.

I am looking for Leroy Atemus Hicks, who was born in 1835 in Newton County, Mississippi and died in 1857 in Mewton County, Mississippi.

A major road construction project will benefit from the federal stimulus bill. The Mississippi Department of Transportation says $50 million of that money will go to work on phase two of the Highway 19 ...

State Rep. Billy Nicholson of Little Rock has changed parties and is now a Republican rather than a Democrat, the Mississippi Republican Party announced Wednesday.

HINDS COUNTY Deliberations in mayor's trial to resume today - JACKSON - Jurors are set to arrive today at a federal courthouse to resume deliberations in the trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, who is accused ...

The board has rolled out preliminary plans and artist renderings of the 75-acre site located along Interstate 20 in Newton County.

Seventy-five acres of land in Newton County, 3 miles west of Hickory between Interstate 20 and Highway 80, has been set aside to become a cemetery for veterans of the U.S. military.

NEWTON - Newton, a small community in East Mississippi, will have a new weekly newspaper beginning Wednesday.

Fresh off the beginning of a new year, the Meridian City Council is expected this week to reconsider the future of Meridian's skyline.

By Brian Livingston blivingston@themeridianstar.com David Sharp, director of the Lauderdale County Emergency Management Agency, said he isn't as worried about the snow that will be entering the area from the ...