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Run for the Roses canceled for 2021; scholarships to still be awarded
The annual Run for the Roses 5K event has been canceled again for 2021. This is the second year the run will not be held ...
An ACT bootcamp will be held March 6 at Jefferson Davis County High School. Students will be reviewing math, science, reading and English. The service ...
The annual Run for the Roses 5K event has been canceled again for 2021. This is the second year the run will not be held ...
Hollis Cochran was recently a recipient at the University of Mississippi Honors and Awards Convocation. The ceremony was held April 8 at the Pavilion at ...
Prentiss Christian School senior Abby Barnett recently signed an archery scholarship with Copiah Lincoln Community College. “Abby started shooting for me at Topeka Tilton in ...
More than half of Mississippians, about 56 percent, have fewer than $1,000 in savings. What’s more, about 38 percent have no savings at all. So, ...
Members of the community had the opportunity to meet the new JDC Economic Development Director, Gary Russell Bass, last month at a reception held at ...
Five County Child Development Program, Inc. is currently accepting applications for Head Start children ages three and four for the 2021-2022 program year. Head Start ...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stepped strongly toward, then beat a rather hasty retreat from the concept of including a vehicle mile traveled or VMT ...
It was a cold and windy day Good Friday, but that didn’t stop Chloe McCullum and her little brother Trey from participating in the JDC ...
A memorial service was held Sunday in Bassfield one year after two devastating tornadoes ripped through the area killing four. The ceremony was held in ...
The Prentiss Fire Department hosted its first annual Remembrance Walk this morning. This, of course, is in remembrance of the walk Jesus Christ took on ...
The passing of iconic Texas novelist, screenwriter and antiquarian bookseller Larry McMurtry at age 84 on March 25 will mean different things to different fans ...
Each year, the Eureka Arts Federated Club has sponsored the Our ‘Lil Darlings Program and Contest. Because of COVID-19, this year’s program has been cancelled. ...
A Jefferson Davis County prisoner is back in custody after escaping from the jail over the weekend. Officials say Jerry Wayne Raynes escaped just before ...
A Carson man has been charged with murder in the March 25 shooting of a Prentiss resident. Skyler Rashaud Jones, 26, of Carson, is being ...
Circuit Court Judge Tony Mozingo saw “no remorse or humility” as he sentenced a Prentiss man to 42 years in prison for the sexual battery ...
Johnny Ray Walker has been sentenced to 42 years for a crime he was found guilty of committing by a Jefferson Davis County jury on ...
Jefferson Davis County Law Enforcement Officers were called to 1081 Granby Road in Prentjss just after 7 a.m. Thursday. Once on the scene they found ...
Johnny Ray Walker of Prentiss has just been found guilty of sexual battery. Walker was accused of molesting 10 year old female relative in 2019. ...
Due to the threat of hazardous weather today, Thursday, March 25th, all JDCSD schools will release early. Elementary schools will dismiss at 12:15 and the ...
A Tornado Watch from has been issued for Jefferson Davis County Thursday from 11:37 a.m. until 8 p.m. JDC is also under a Flood Warning ...
According to the JDC Emergency Management Director, citizens should continue to be weather aware tonight and tomorrow. These storms tomorrow are predicted to be more ...
The Town of Bassfield is having a Ceremony of Remembrance of the devastation and for the victims of the Easter 2020 tornadoes. The service will ...
All three Jefferson Davis County Schools opened March 22 for traditional learning. This is the first time the students have been in the classroom for ...
According to the National Weather Service in Jackson, isolated severe storms capable of producing damaging wind gusts and hail up to quarter size are possible ...
On April 2 at 8 a.m., the Prentiss Fire Department will be hosting its first annual remembrance walk. This, of course, is in remembrance of ...
All three Jefferson Davis County Schools opened this morning to traditional learning. This is the first time the students have been in the classroom for ...