Wayne County News

A case of Eastern Equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne virus that can infect humans, has been found in a horse in Wayne County.

Temp: 89.0 F Heat Index: 91 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Mississippi's first case of the year of a dangerous virus for both horses and humans has surfaced in the eastern part of the state.

WAYNESBORO - Charges against four people in the 2008 slaying of a Clara woman are being heard this week by grand jury in Wayne County.

Oak Grove made it official Monday night, as Wayne County's Chris McCardle was named as the Warriors' new baseball coach.

To the citizens of Forrest, Jones, Perry and Wayne County plus the rest of Mississippi, Jack Powell and I, Carroll Powell, would like to ask you when you are driving on Morriston and Old Richton roads, please drive careful and use your cell phones wisely.

LUCEDALE George County supervisors have tabled a draft resolution to create a regional rail authority that would oversee the development of freight line from Waynesboro to Lucedale.

A Wayne County woman has been found guilty with abusing a patient at Ellisville State School.

The Laurel School District will be going to a new modified 10-point grading system at the beginning of the new school year.

LUCEDALE County and state leaders are being urged to create a regional rail authority to rebuild a rail link from Waynesboro to Lucedale that would serve as an economic engine for eastern Mississippi.

LUCEDALE - With an eye to the future, Wayne County Supervisors met with more than 70 officials - including mayors and supervisors from five southeast Mississippi counties, state representatives and leaders from four railroads - during an initial informational meeting at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Lucedale Thursday afternoon.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Department has arrested four people in connection with the March 2008 murder of businesswoman Janie Cooley Broadway Williams.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. A 43-mile-long railroad line from Lucedale to Waynesboro is proposed as a way to connect eastern Mississippi to ports in Pascagoula and Alabama, according to an economic developer.

She had always dreamed of making a long trip on horseback, but she didna TMt plan the journey quite so soon in life.

One year after the murder, the family of a Wayne County woman is still pleading to the public for help in finding their loved one's killer.

Relatives of a slain Waynesboro woman are offering a $10,000 reward for tips that will lead investigators to an arrest in the March 2008 murder.

Top line: Rock 'n' roll probably has a different connotation for the thousands of hobbyists who turn out for the annual Mississippi Rock, Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show.

Richton High School has named a new head football coach, hiring Kemper County's Jim Risen to fill the vacancy.

In case dry skin and crackling leaves aren't enough to show Jones Countians how dry conditions are, a huge plume of smoke hovering over eastern Jones County Friday could.

A Wayne County man is behind bars in connection with Monday's armed robbery of a gas station.

We spotted Kerby Jordan, 21, of Wayne County while he was picking up tickets for today's Tracy Lawrence concert at The Bottling Co.