Washington County News

GREENVILLE, Miss. - Blues performers Bobby Rush, Charlie Musselwhite and Shirley Brown will headline the 32nd Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival on Sept.

Dewayne Spearman says he's looking for a place to live after three teenagers who took their parents' car for a joy ride allegedly crashed into his home.

An Iron County Correctional Facility inmate who attempted to escape Monday evening may face additional criminal charges after the episode as he awaits sentencing.

A Greenville man has been charged for home repair fraud by the Attorney General's Office.

Police have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in the shooting death of a Greenville man.

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.

Greenville authorities are looking for an escaped inmate this morning. Officials said Washington County Community Work Center inmate Shannon Norwood escaped around 1 a.m. Thursday.

Hinds County is now up to more than $750,000 in engineering and architect fees for a regional jail that will not be built.

The State Department of Education is going after the certification of a Washington County teacher who is still drawing her salary despite being in prison for a federal conviction.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Miss. a ' A major construction project got under way this week on U.S. Highway 1 South near the Greenville Higher Education Center in Washington County, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

A 22-year-old Clarksdale man died after crashing his motorcycle into another vehicle.

An arrest has been made in the slaying of 19-year-old Cordero Gilmore and police in Greenville are now investigating a related arson case.

A 49-year-old former Yazoo City car salesman has pleaded guilty to committing fraud by altering documents to make sales, Attorney General Jim Hood said today.

A Sunflower man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in the 2008 slaying of his girlfriend and the carjacking of a vehicle to make his escape.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - The public will have an opportunity to discuss planned construction of a route to connect Washington County to I-69. Thursday's hearing is scheduled for Solomon Middle School, 4-7 p.m. Mississippi Department of Transportation representatives will discuss environmental and social impacts.

Timothy Jackson has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the 2006 stabbing death of a Greenville woman and wounding of another person.

A Jackson man is one of two suspects charged in connection with the death of a man whose body was found burned over the weekend in Greenville.

An unusually wet May is causing some Mississippi farmers to plant rice late, but the crop still has time to develop into a good one for the Delta.

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS BEEN BUSY WITH SEARCH WARRANTS ARRESTING SUSPECTS ON A VARIETY OF DRUG CHARGES.