The federal government filed the Hendry County lawsuit in 1970, long after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling but as desegregation legal battles continued in the ...

A federal judge last week approved ending a Hendry County school-desegregation lawsuit that started in 1970, after the U.S.

The Narcotics Unit within the Copiah County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 79 large marijuana plants being grown at a ...

The Justice Department has ended a 55-year-old desegregation case in Copiah County. The case began in 1970 over the operation of racially separate school systems. Federal officials say the district is ...

Special to Wesson NewsA man has turned himself in to authorities following a fatal car crash in Copiah County that sparked ...

Copiah County deputies said a man turned himself in for allegedly assaulting a firefighter who responded to a fatal crash.

A terrifying, fatal crash scene turned even more horrifying when, according to Copiah County law officers, volunteer ...