JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — The body of a woman was found near a creek just north of Jackson Monday. Jackson Police say a passerby discovered the body shortly before 7:00 AM near the waterline in Hanging Moss Creek, on Woodway Drive, near the Pebble Creek Apartments. The body belonged…

JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — The National Flood Insurance Program will be up for renewal by Congress in July and Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says rates will be going up. As of last August, there were about 65,000 flood insurance policies with a little over $15.5 billion dollars of…

TUTWILER, MS (Ben Caxton) — 88 Wyoming prison inmates have been moved to Mississippi. The Wyoming Department of Corrections says that 60 inmates were moved April 4th and another 28 on April 12th to the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler. They all arrived safe and after a 32-hour bus…

JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — The most restrictive abortion law in the United States will remain on hold for at least several more months. A Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks was signed by Governor Phil Bryant in March but the state’s only abortion clinic immediately sued and…

VICKSBURG, MS (Ben Caxton) — A recent breakup may have led to the murder of a Vicksburg woman Saturday night. 45-year-old Latonya Love-Campbell was found dead on the front lawn of her home in the 100 block of Elizabeth Circle around 10:05 PM. A man with whom she had been…

INDIANOLA, MS (Ben Caxton) — Looking for the best attraction in Mississippi? Ask a USA Today Reader and you won’t have to look any farther than Indianola. The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in that town came out on top in this year’s USA Today 10Best.com Readers’ Choice…

GREENVILLE, MS (Ben Caxton) — Charles Schulz’s beloved comic comes to life in Clark Gesner’s classic musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Saint Joseph Catholic School April 25th to 29th. The whole gang will be there: bossy Lucy is hopelessly in love with piano prodigy Schroeder who doesn’t…

ITTA BENA, MS (Ben Caxton) — If you’re traveling between Greenville and Greenwood, you’ll soon need to take Highway Yanky 72. Yanky 72 was the call sign of the marine transport that crash in a field near Itta Bena last summer killing all 16 onboard. On Wednesday, Governor Phil Bryant…

CLEVELAND, MS (Ben Caxton) — A family emergency has delayed a decision on a citizen’s group’s attempt to block a school merger in Bolivar County. The group, calling itself “JFK United” served an injunction on the North Bolivar School Board a few weeks ago seeking to permanently stop the board…