Quitman County News

His car still sits in the driveway outside his Rosedale, Mississippi home. But this isnt the car police believe harvey lewis junior used to kidnap and murder two family members.

Bond has been denied to 43-year-old Harvey Lewis, who has been charged with capital murder in the slayings of a woman and a child.

A mother and daughter were found shot to death early Tuesday morning in Bolivar County, Mississippi after they were kidnapped earlier from Quitman County.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected of shooting to death his ex-girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter and 44-year-old mother Tuesday morning in Bolivar County.

42-year-old Harvey Lewis was last seen in a 1994 blue-gray Chevrolet S-10 with Quitman County tags.

Crenshaw Mayor-elect Oscar Barlow, after being sworn in to office July 6, will oversee a broke town government in a once-quaint Delta community.

These Delta towns tend to resemble one another - perhaps a nice bank on Main Street and a few well-kept homes with wraparound porches, but then come the railroad tracks and a multitude of woebegone shacks with leaky roofs and mangy, half-starved dogs keeping watch from patches of surrounding weeds.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating a Saturday fire in Quitman County in which three children died.

Three small children die in a morning blaze in Quitman County. Assistant Chief Wayne Sneed with the Marks Fire Department tells us the call came in shortly after 8 a.m. The fire claimed the lives of three of Tammie Moore's five children, 2-year-old Jacorey Autman, 1-year-old Adrianna Autman and three month old Alicia Autman.

The Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance is recommending that a Quitman County justice court judge be reprimanded and suspended after he allegedly improperly touched a deputy clerk.