Pike County News

Ten people are expected to graduate Monday from the Pike County Juvenile Drug Court program on Monday.

A Kentwood, La., woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of an Osyka man who died Sunday from wounds he received during a fight Friday night.

McComb Mayor Zach Patterson has filed a lawsuit against the city's selectmen, accusing them of violating laws when they didn't give notice of a meeting held to sign payroll checks.

McCOMB, Miss. - Pike County Constable Oliver James has resigned after allegedly being caught on video receiving an improper payment of $35. County supervisors accepted the resignation this past week.

McCOMB, Miss. - In March 1929, Norman Gillis Sr. opened a pharmacy in McComb. Eighty years later, Gillis Drug Store is in the same location, continuing to serve generations of customers and their families who need prescriptions filled and other medical needs met.

A report of a suspicious person in a yard in the 3300 block of 17th Street led to Daniel Hathorn's arrest Thursday in connection with the burglary of a shed.

McComb Central Communications dispatched units to the Nehi Circle railroad crossing regarding a train hitting a vehicle Monday afternoon at 3:46 pm.

Three people are dead after a train crash in McComb, the youngest victim was just two years old.

A Mississippi death row inmate has been re-sentenced to life behind bars for murdering his stepson, the stepson's wife and their 4-year-old daughter in 1993.

Mark Anderson, McComb's former acting police chief, is scheduled for a Sept. 25 city court hearing on charges of impersonating a police officer and joy riding after he allegedly stole a patrol car on Wednesday.

The contentious atmosphere in McComb government took a bizarre turn Wednesday when former acting Police Chief Mark Anderson reportedly drove away with a police car and police-issued gun three weeks after he had resigned from the force.

Gary Porter is a walking encyclopedia on weeds. Step out in some roadside vegetation with him and he can readily identify hophornbeam copperleaf, sickle pod, vasey grass, itch grass, Johnson grass, partridge pea, Old World climbing fern, blue vervain, common ragweed, morning glory and many more.

A McComb woman will serve no jail time after a guilty plea in Pike County. Fifth-one-year-old Monte Magee pled guilty to one count of Medicaid fraud.

A McComb woman pleaded guilty Medicaid fraud today, Attorney General Jim Hood said.

A McComb man was sentenced to life in prison for shooting a woman to death in front of her two small granddaughters and her special-needs teenage son.

A Tylertown woman has been indicted on a charge of murder for allegedly killing her boyfriend at a McComb motel.

With the McComb-Pike County Airport closed until mid- to late-August while its 5,000-foot runway is repaved, the Brookhaven Municipal Airport could see increased air traffic - if anyone were flying.

A Centreville man shot and killed his estranged wife before killing himself in what McComb police called a murder-suicide. Police Chief Greg Martin said the bodies of Michael Smith, 42, and Kathy Smith, 39, of St.

The state Court of Appeals has thrown out a lower court order that a McComb man be banished from Mississippi once his completes a 25-year sentence for a sex crime conviction.

A power struggle between the mayor and a majority of the governing board has left this southwest Mississippi city of 13,000 without a permanent police chief, fire chief, city attorney, city administrator and city clerk.