Sharkey County News

The Mississippi Department of Transportation has announced the reopening of Mississippi 16 in Rolling Fork.

AN EARLY MONDAY MORNING FIRE IN SHARKEY COUNTY HEAVILY DAMAGED A LOCAL NIGHT CLUB, FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, CLUB 14 ON HIGHWAY 14, IS, AGAIN, A CRIME SCENE.

Some 400 supervisors from all 82 counties in Mississippi are meeting in Biloxi this week.

AFTER TWO HOURS OF DELIBERATIONS, A SHARKEY COUNTY JURY FINDS THREE DEFENDANTS IN A MURDER CASE ARE FOUND NOT GUILTY.

A POSSIBLE MURDER SUSPECT IS BEING HELD BY SHARKEY COUNTY AUTHORITIES FOR HIS POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN LAST WEEKEND'S FATAL SHOOTING IN ANGUILLA.

THE NOOSE IS TIGHTENING BY SHARKEY COUNTY AUTHORITIES WHO ARE CLOSING IN ON A SUSPECT INVOLVED IN A FATAL SHOOTING LAST SATURDAY.

The jury in the May 11 retrial of Mayor Frank Melton and former police bodyguard Michael Recio will come from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but the trial will be held in Jackson.

Three Sharkey County men, two of them brothers, have been formally indicted on murder charges in connection with the killing of a Cary man in September.

A Hinds County Sheriff's deputy and another individual were injured this afternoon in a three-vehicle wreck on I-20 eastbound between Springridge Road and the Hwy.

The holidays can be a stressful time for families who have lost loved ones. A Sharkey county mother, whose son died in the war, is coping by caring for others in her small town.