Scott County News

Two Kosciusko men died Tuesday night when their car collided with a Scott County school bus carrying an athletic team, according to the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol.

Beginning Monday, a centralized statewide hot line and a Web site will be available to the public for reporting child abuse and neglect to the Mississippi Department of Human Services.

When state leaders are making the budget cuts that a prolonged recession and historic state revenue shortfalls are forcing them to make, they should remember little Austin James Watkins.

None of 4-year-old Austin James Watkins' family showed up Tuesday to see his grandmother and aunt head to prison for his starvation death.

Police in Scott County, Mississippi were flooded with calls this weekend after a pair of emus wandered into traffic on two area freeways.

Honest-to-goodness news item: 'Law officers had to use a stun gun and handcuffs to capture an emu running loose on I-20 in central Mississippi.

Two Scott County women accused of capital murder in the starvation death of a 4-year-old boy could plead guilty next week in the case.

Unable to find the flightless felons, deputies continued to field calls over the weekend, until finally this past Sunday, they located one of the winged renegades where it was weaving through traffic on Interstate 20.

On Sunday, police in Scott County, Mississippi, finally cornered and subdued one of the emus that have apparently been threatening motorists on Interstate Highway 20 for the last few days.

Law officers had to use a stun gun and handcuffs to capture an emu running loose on Interstate 20 in central Mississippi.

Esther Davis' wooden walking stick has the face of a man intricately carved near the top.

In the two years since the formation of the Scott County-Mississippi County Prescription Drug Task Force, awareness of the prescription drug problem has grown in both communities, said Richard Logan, a Charleston, Mo., pharmacist and deputy commissioned with both counties.

Perhaps you remember the story we did last month on an 87-year old-woman living in a one room shack in rural Scott County south of Lena.

Mississippi officials unveiled the state's new electronic court document filing system on Thursday, saying the program will increase public access and streamline procedures for judges and attorneys.

George Whitten and his four business partners wonder if there's someone out there who can write a check to the Madison County Tax Collector for $597,793.13. Because they can't - at least, not by Friday.

Temp: 87.0 F Heat Index: 87 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Font Size: School districts across Mississippi are reporting cases and suspected cases of the swine flu.

His voice is distinctive with a high-pitched timbre and after a number of conversations over the years, I've come to recognize James Meredith's voice on the telephone.

School is just starting at many Mississippi schools, but dozens of kids are already staying at home sick with the flu.

It is a shack with a cluttered yard and a sagging roof and wobbly steps. Abandoned, most people in this rural area of Scott County figured.

Her plight was brought to the attention of NBC affiliate WLBT by 67-year-old James Crain, also a resident of Scott County and friend of Davis.