Yazoo County News

Oak Grove High School Dandy Dozen wide receiver Steve McNair, Jr. has verbally committed to play football at Southern Miss.

Cellular South will expand its third-generation high-speed wireless mobile broadband services network by adding 166 new cell sites in 39 Mississippi counties during the fourth quarter of this year, the company announced.

Video captured by a camera mounted on a Yazoo County school bus this fall gripped central Mississippi and the nation.

The mother of the 15-year-old girl, who took a gun onto a school bus in Yazoo County in September, says her daughter is being treated by a psychiatrist for depression.

A 15-year-old female student who displayed a loaded .380 semiautomatic handgun on a Yazoo County school bus last month won't be charged as an adult.

A Jim Hill High School senior had a loaded gun at school because he was being bullied, his mother said.

Hinds County bus drivers will walk out at 4 a.m. Thursday, according to a statement the Union released this afternoon.

A hearing is scheduled for Monday in Madison County in an effort to avert a strike by school bus drivers, Madison County Schools Superintendent Mike Kent said.

If a resolution isn't reached soon between a union representing about 400 school bus drivers and First Student, a strike may be eminent, Madison County Schools Superintendent Mike Kent said.

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The union representing bus drivers in four Mississippi school districts decided to delay a planned strike pending a court hearing scheduled for this morning, according to media accounts.

The roads were backed up Wednesday morning in Madison County as parents lined up to drop their children off at school in response to a threatened strike by school bus drivers.

Bus drivers in four Mississippi school districts will report to work Wednesday, after a planned strike is put on hold.

A Brandon man died Friday after being shot by a Yazoo County sheriff's deputy, officials said.

Officials in Yazoo County say a deputy who responded to a disturbance call has been involved in a deadly shooting.

Jerry Reynolds' expectations rose with each step he took up his ladder stand Saturday morning, the third day of archery season.

The images are still fresh in our minds: three weeks ago, a 14-year-old female student pulled a pistol out of her bookbag on a Yazoo County school bus and pointed it at other children.

When a 14-year-old girl brandished a gun on a Yazoo County school bus earlier this month, she was a child reacting alone against the fear of being bullied.

A Yazoo County Schools official said Friday that there is no evidence that a 14-year-old girl who threatened students with a gun was repeatedly bullied.

The honors for a Yazoo County football star and a school bus driver keep rolling in.