Scott County News

I am seeking family information on a Professor Tom Freeny who taught at the University of Southern Mississippi in the 1940s and 1950s.

Catching catfish by hand, which many folks consider too crazy to try, goes by many names.

Scott County Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon issued the order Friday. Gordon ruled Janice Mowdy was competent to stand trial and rescheduled her trial for Oct.

Scott County prosecutors want separate trials for two women accused of starving a 4 year old boy to death.

A Forest woman is asking a court to force Jackson Mayor Frank Melton to follow through on his promise to pay for her college degree.

Four-month-old Javarious Clincy has no idea that his story caused outrage among some and pity for his mother from others.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of Issac Jermaine Nelson, who was sentenced to life in prison in Scott County for the slaying of 17-year-old Shannon Lee Torrence.

The search is in dark murky water, just off Highway 13 south of Morton near an apartment complex.

The Social Security Administration office for Rankin County residents has moved to Scott County.

The city of Morton is working on a package of incentives to lure a private prison developer to Scott County.

Mississippi Department of Transportation will temporarily close a portion of Mississippi 501 in Smith County on Wednesday for repair work.

William Neil Lewis never talked much about his days as a doughboy in France, never shared a lot about his tour with the American Expeditionary Force under Gen.

At least 12 deer dogs have been poisoned in Scott County, and another 16 are missing.

Two people taking part in the Dixie National Rodeo Wagon Train are dead, apparently the victims of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Members of the Dixie National Wagon Train found the dead bodies of a Philadelphia, Miss., couple Wednesday morning.

Traffic has been reopened on Mississippi 35 in Forest following an accident today in which an 18-wheeler hauling butane overturned.

Starkville Daily News Connie Shurden and three of her family members consider themselves lucky to be alive after a hunter's stray pellet struck and shattered the windshield of the car they in which they were ...

Scott County residents and officials will gather tonight to remember two children who recently died of apparent child abuse.

Thanks so much for Executive Editor Ronnie Agnew's column . This is the type of facts and attitude we need to read in the daily paper.

Mississippi's child welfare agency asked lawmakers today to support a plan to hire and retain more social workers as the state works to better protect children from abuse and neglect.