Sunflower County News

JACKSON - Five county jails cannot house state inmates until they make some improvements.

TheJacksonChannel.Com updated June 26, 2009 JACKSON, Miss. - WAPT.com Police captured an inmate Friday night who had escaped from a Washington County community work center the previous day.

A Washington County inmate who escaped from a work center on Thursday was captured tonight in an Inverness cornfield, state prison officials say.

Whether the truck driver who hit and killed four members of a Sunflower County family this week in Magee is charged will be up to a grand jury.

A family of four was killed in wreck Tuesday night in Magee. It happened just before 9:00 in front of the Walmart on U.S. Highway 49.

CLEVELAND, Miss. a ' Major construction has begun on Mississippi Highway 8 East in Bolivar and Sunflower counties, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

IT WAS NOT A GOOD DAY FOR A SUNFLOWER COUNTY MAN ON TUESDAY NOW BEHIND BARS AFTER HE'S NABBED IN A FEDERAL NATIONWIDE DRUG BUST.

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The man was last seen fishing on April 15 on Neblett Lake. Officials said that the lake size and debris have made searching more difficult.

IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY, A RULEVILLE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE ALMOST A YEAR AGO STANDS FOR A COMPETENCY HEARING IN CIRCUIT COURT.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for all of central and southern Mississippi until 9 p.m. Severe weather is moving across the state from Louisiana and is responsible for quarter- and half dollar-sized hail in the Delta and Sunflower County, meteorologist Joanne Culin said.

The mortgage bubble may have finally burst for the Mississippi Valley State University National Alumni Association.

AN ARGUMENT IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY ENDS WITH A MAN DEAD AND HIS GIRLFRIEND CHARGED WITH HIS MURDER.

Authorities says a Sunflower County man died after being hit by a car. Heather Burton, Sunflower County coroner, said 52-year-old Willie Coleman, of Indianola, was pronounced dead at South Sunflower County ...

A free workshop that helps prepare residents for homeownership is set for 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb.

On the first Sunday after Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation's first black president, congregants at black churches throughout the Mississippi Delta prayed for his success, but cautioned that change would ...

As Martin Luther King Day approaches, findingDulcinea remembers such civil rights leaders as Fannie Lou Hamer, who uttered the powerful words: "All my life I've been sick and tired.

Listen carefully to the buzz surrounding President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, and you are bound to hear talk of 'service.' During the campaign, Obama spoke movingly about the importance of service ...

Sunflower County, Miss., row crop farmers Preston and Amy Arrington were recently named state winners of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award contest.

Active as a performer and recording artist in the 1970s and 1980s, Johnny Russell was remembered for "Rednecks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer," perhaps country music's quintessential blue-collar anthem.