The Lamar County School District is celebrating National Career and Technical Education month by showing students of its Technical Education Program that they don’t have to leave home to find great career opportunities in the Pine Belt.
The inmates will temporarily be housed at the nearby Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility. They are being transferred through reclassification and exchanges for lower-security inmates.
Homeowners can use MSBOC online resources at www.msboc.us to check the license status of the contractor they plan to hire, and to get tips on wise repair and improvement choices.
Administrators with the Boy Scouts in the Pine Belt are reacting to the announcement this week that the Boy Scouts of America has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The incident occurred in the 900 block of Dabbs Street on February 18, and investigators have now learned that the incident happened over a narcotics transaction.
U.S. Department of Transportation will award $7.7 million to twelve Mississippi airports for safety and infrastructure use as the investment is a part of a $520.5 million national investment in airports across the country.
A city inspector that performed several inspections at the Hard Rock Hotel construction site was not certified during some of those inspections, records obtained by FOX 8 show.
Bay St. Louis city leaders are calling for justice after a child was reportedly given a black doll with beads around its neck at last weekend’s Krewe of Nereids parade.
People in the Foxworth and Morgantown communities are getting sandbags, bricks and everything they need to keep themselves and their homes safe once the Pearl River floods later this week.
Hundreds of high school students who are considering careers in education have participated in a two-day conference, held for the first time at William Carey University.
Laurel will issue bonds or take out a loan to fund recreation projects. The city will pay the loan back through its Recreation and Public Promotion Promotion Tax.
A bill that would require Mississippi public schools to offer computer science to all elementary and high school students has been introduced in the Mississippi Senate.
The girl told detectives that a man in an SUV approached her with a gun and told her to get in his vehicle, Vincent said. She ran from him, but he caught up to her, got out of his vehicle and attempted to grab her. She was able to get away and immediately reported the incident to crossing guards.
After his meeting, he will update on the city’s current situation and updated plan of action for the Pearl River flooding impacting Northeast Jackson communities.
A Facebook post on Sunday described a young girl who received a doll with a beaded noose around its neck and a mother furious at a potentially, racially motivated incident.
Testimony continued Sunday in the capital murder trial of Willie Cory Godbolt. He is accused of killing eight people, including a Lincoln County deputy in 2017. Seven of the victims were family members.
Students from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia would pay about $18,000 a year instead of about $26,000 a year as out-of-state students.
Nearly nine months after a North Canton City Schools custodian found a purse missing since 1957, the school finally shared photos of what was found inside.
Snow Cheng grew up about 400 miles west Wuhan, China, which is being called the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Now, Cheng lives in the quaint town of Sumrall with her family. As she and her husband take care of their baby girl, she worries about her family and friends half-way around the wor
Students from the Dubard School for Language Disorders at the University of Southern Mississippi helped plant trees at the site of the old Jazz Station on campus as part of an annual Arbor Day celebration.
