Perry County News

Jerra Runnels is the go-to person for the public, attorneys and court officials at the Forrest County Circuit Court.

A log truck collision with a Canadian National freight train in Perry County damaged nearly a dozen box cars and tankers filled with molten sulfur.

JACKSON - A Canadian National freight train has collided with a fully loaded log truck in Perry County, but the Mississippi Department of Transportation did not report any injuries.

A Richton man is dead after he apparently shot himself during a traffic stop this weekend.

A drug roundup in Perry County on Wednesday resulted in the arrests of 10 people, six of which remain in jail while four others were transported to Forrest County on other charges.

Beaumont, MS Perry county officials are investigating the shooting death of 28-year-old Jonathan Steele Sunday night in Beaumont.

Officials of two South Mississippi drug courts and one federal court program will celebrate their success in rehabilitating drug offenders Friday in a graduation ceremony.

For Don Lust, monthly volunteer work of cleaning floors and distributing food boxes to the elderly in the Palmer's Crossing community is a second chance.

Two South Mississippi drug courts and a federal program will participate in a May 15 ceremony in Hattiesburg.

Four people have been arrested by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation charged in connection with the March 6, 2008 murder of Janie Cooley Broadway Williams.

Northeast Perry County Utility Association officials today issued a precautionary boil-water alert for customers who receive drinking water from the association.

The following schools have notified WDAM they will be closing today due to severe weather: Hattiesburg Public Schools at 11 a.m. Petal Schools at 12:15 p.m. Forrest County Agricultural High School at 12 p.m. Lamar County Schools at 1 p.m. Perry County at 1 p.m. Oak Grove Elementary at 1:45 p.m. Word of Faith Christian Academy at 11:30 a.m. Rawls ...

The economic news just keeps getting worse. On Wednesday the Mississippi Employment Security Commission reported the state unemployment rate jumped to 9.2 percent in January.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation will soon bid out one of three road projects in the Pine Belt as part of an initiative to use stimulus money to repair the state's roads and bridges.

In an effort to prevent wrongful convictions, members of the state Legislature hope to pass a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to preserve DNA.

Lamar County should be seeing extra pairs of hands pitching in to spruce up roadsides as well as other acts of community service.

NEW AUGUSTA - Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Jones and Son Funeral Home in Beaumont for Larry Jordan, 65, of New Augusta, who died Feb.

Diana Strickland, 23, stood in an empty classroom at Thames Elementary School, anxiously awaiting her turn to be interviewed for the Miss Leaf River Valley Pageant.

A school bus has been involved in an accident with a log truck in Perry County along Hwy 29 between Runnelstown and New Augusta.

It's been almost six years since Circuit Judge Bob Helfrich received a pay raise.