Yazoo County News

The federal stimulus package has helped keep some contractors in business, and will give towns in the Mississippi Delta a public service they've gone without for decades: paved streets.

A part-time Bentonia police officer has been arrested on felony drug charges. Forty-nine-year-old Carl Fleming was arrested at his place of business on Martin Luther King Drive in Bentonia early Monday evening.

Three teenagers have been arrested for the Madison Middle School arson fires. Two 14-year-olds, one from Madison and one from Jackson, and a 15-year-old from Jackson are being held in juvenile detention centers in Hinds and Yazoo counties, awaiting action by the Madison County Youth Court.

THE ARSON FIRE LAST WEEK THAT LEFT 38 PEOPLE HOMELESS IN YAZOO COUNTY HAS NOW RESULTED IN THE ARREST OF TWO PEOPLE IN THE CASE.

Bond has been set for the 17 year old accused of burning down an apartment building in Yazoo County.

A 17 year-old has been arrested and charged with 8 counts of felony arson. The arrest stems from a fire at an apartment complex in Yazoo County just after midnight last Thursday morning.

Arson investigators say they have a person of interest in a Yazoo County apartment complex fire that left 38 people displaced.

Arson investigators are trying to determine the cause of an apartment complex fire in Yazoo County.

A swine flu case has been confirmed in Hinds County, according to the state Department of Health Web site.

An 18-year-old Job Corps cadet struck by lightning Saturday near Yazoo City has died.

Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday for a job fair in Yazoo City, which was sponsored by the Governor's Job Fair Network.

It appears the prominent Jackson couple involved in a deadly wreck a few months has been jet setting.

A national news correspondent and the mayor of Hattiesburg offered words of encouragement to about 1,200 Jackson State University grads during spring commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday.

A 16-year-old Yazoo High School student is dead after his car collided with a school bus.

A family is grieving after a fatal school bus accident in Yazoo County. It happened just before 7:00 Friday morning on Old Benton Road off Highway 49 just outside Yazoo City.

A 16-year-old high-school student died in a wreck Friday morning in Yazoo County.

WAPT viewer Bobby Crudup Jr. sent the station an e-mail asking if any of the candidates for Jackson mayor were born and raised in the Capital City.

The results of an autopsy performed on an imate who died in the Yazoo County Jail early Wednesday morning are in.

State investigators are in Yazoo City looking into the suspicious death of a Yazoo County inmate.

An autopsy revealed that an inmate at the Yazoo County Detention Center who was found dead in his cell on Wednesday, died of heart disease, the coroner said.