Wilkinson County News

An early morning auto theft lead to the arrest of a Wilkinson County fugitive Wednesday.

Two Natchez men and one juvenile are in custody charged with grand larceny in connection with the theft of several four-wheelers. Adams County Sheriff's Deputy Investigator Ricky Stevens said of the five recovered vehicles, four were stolen within the past month.

The Jackson Census Office has been flooded with support as they attempt to verify all addresses leading up to next year's Census.

For 10 years, the Summer Youth Work Experience Program lay dormant. But in a true meaning of its name, stimulus money brought it back to life this year by leaps and bounds.

Tupelo has 35,000 people. In this year's Democratic municipal primary, 33 absentee ballots were tallied.

The event is hosted by the Mississippi Flood Map Modernization Initiative Team at the Wilkinson County Courthouse in Woodville.

WOODVILLE a ' A Centreville girl drowned Monday in a neighbora TMs swimming pool.

To see the positive economic impact the county's new prison is expected to have on the community, Natchez residents don't have to look very far.

Despite several days of severe weather, the Miss-Lou escaped largely unscathed. All of Adams County was under a tornado warning at some point Friday night - there were four warnings issued during the evening - but other than a few trees down on some of the county's rural roads, the damage was fairly limited, Adams County Emergency Management ...

MEMA is reporting damage in at least 14 counties. Adams County: numerous trees and power lines are down.

No arrests have been made in relation to the high-speed chase that crossed multiple jurisdictional lines Thursday night.

Wilkinson County authorities say they have made one arrest in the theft of personal belongings from a Franklin County school bus.

'If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.' - Gustav Mahler There's a traveling exhibit at the Lee County Library right now until Friday, March 27.

Remember Gilbert Hosemann, the soft-spoken man that sweet lady on TV wanted us to elect as Mississippi's secretary of state? After much coaching, she learned his name wasn't Gilbert or Wilbert or Engbert or ...

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.

A $1.3 million federal health-care grant issued last week to Pearl-based Family Health Care Clinic makes it one of the first organizations in the state to benefit from the recently signed stimulus bill.

Demographically the Miss-Lou's population is nearly half black, half white; half male, half female and on the decline.

Welcome to Mississippi, where greater reverence is placed on the purchase of cigarettes, beer and ammunition than on the sanctity of the voting booth.

Welcome to Mississippi, where greater reverence is placed on the purchase of cigarettes, beer and ammunition than on the sanctity of the voting booth.

WOODVILLE a ' The Mississippi Highway Patrol has positively confirmed the identities of two victims of a deadly accident on New Yeara TMs Eve.