Remember DOGE? Those with long memories of, say, 18 months or so likely do. Then again, the average attention span of your ...

The cob crackdown continued in Jones County with the arrest of a 50-year-old on drug-trafficking charges. Edwin Ellzey Jr. is ...

An 18-year-old armed- robbery suspect was arrested Saturday evening shortly after he allegedly robbed his victim and took ...

Laurel Leader-Call Managing Editor Sean Murphy, right, received the J. Oliver Emmerich Award for Editorial Excellence at the ...

Fireworks shows took over the area across the 4th of July weekend as both Laurel and Bay Springs hosted shows. The City of ...

The boundaries of heterosexuality are bending for women but not for men, who appear to have less room to explore and are ...

The radical Left is good at one thing — protests. OK, they are beyond good. They have mastered the protest, usually because there are checks being handed out to the ...

Housing juvenile inmates in Forrest County was a hot topic in Monday morning’s board of supervisors meeting, with multiple supervisors saying they had questions surrounding the price to house juvenile ...

DNA tests from the Mississippi State Crime Lab in a child-molestation case from Dec. 19, 2025, led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man. Steven Walker was arrested by the ...

Laurel Main Street is raising a glass to summer shopping with the debut of Brunch & Browse, a daytime champagne tasting event set for Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 ...

The second internal medicine residency class had its white-coat ceremony on June 30 at South Central Regional Medical Center.

A drunk-driving suspect who crashed her vehicle in the 400 block of Luther Hill Road on July 4 was arrested and charged with DUI-1st offense.