Sunflower County News

The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland & Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch, The New Press '08, $27.95, 368 pages, ISBN #1595583327. Index, source notes, no bibliography, ...

Photography by Katherine Emery. Produced by Grace Rubenstein. Drive two and a half hours north of Jackson, Mississippi, past cotton, soy, and catfish farms, and you'll find a water tower announcing the tiny ...

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head.

A basket full of Quiver River Aquaculture Inc., catfish are pulled from their pond near Moorhead, Miss., for transport to another farm.

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head - another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops.

This small Delta town has been shaken by a Tuesday night shooting in which a 35-year-old gunman fatally shot a teenage girl, then turned the gun on himself.

Moorhead 05/18/08 Trooper Opens Fire on Man in Sunflower Co. A state trooper is on paid leave after reportedly shooting a man Saturday night in Sunflower county. via WLBT-TV Jackson

“That's what makes me mad at society, when they look down on the less fortunate ones.”

New America Media's coverage of this issue is underwritten by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. via New America Media

“They're becoming more white. More of them are getting an education.”

Only one thing to add. Evidence. Definitions of whiteness amid the Delta blues In the Mississippi Delta, race isn't as easy as black and white. via Prometheus 6

A man being sought by the Sunflower County Sheriff's Department in the killing of his estranged wife has been arrested.

Dennis Wayne Ferguson, of Drew, was in custody Saturday after a manhunt in the Ruleville area that started a day earlier.

Authorities believe Ferguson shot and killed Joellen E. Ferguson on Friday morning.

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JACKSON, Miss. -- A tanker that's leaking propane has forced the closure of Highway 49 near 2nd Street in Indianola A tanker that is leaking propane has forced the closure of Highway 49 near 2nd Street in ... via WAPT.com

SUNFLOWER COUNTY Cummings' drug test leads to tougher time PARCHMAN - Daniel Cummings, in prison for the death of a police officer, has been transferred to a higher-security prison unit after repeatedly testing ... via Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

An 11-month-old boy is dead and authorities are charging his parents with manslaughter. via WLOX-TV Biloxi

Cleve McDowell, Mississippi lawyer murdered in 1997, with friend Rev. Jesse Jackson. via Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

VICKSBURG - It's not unusual to hear a person behind bars insist the state got the wrong guy. via The Clarion-Ledger

Arthur Johnson has won his release from prison after a Sunflower County judge ruled DNA evidence cleared Johnson of the crime of rape. via WLMT

Sunflower County Circuit Judge Ashley Hines of Sunflower County still levied $25,000 in bail, even though DNA testing carried out in 2007 proves Johnson did not commit the crime. via Jackson Free Press

Arthur Johnson, who has spent 15 years in prison, could be the next Mississippi inmate freed from prison because of DNA evidence. via Hattiesburg American

“Even though they may not be a breeding ground now, they will be once temperatures warm up”

Mayor Mary Ajoku knows a little about potholes, and she's trying to do something about them. via Greenwood Commonwealth

Active: 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Born: January 23, 1940 in Moorehead, MS Influences Biography Active as a performer and recording artist in the 1970s and 1980s, Johnny Russell was remembered for ... via WHER-FM Hattiesburg