Local News

• Picayune officers make arrests

  Investigative work by Picayune Police Department narcotics officers resulted in a number of drug related arrests. Charges ranged from possession of controlled substances to the sale of controlled substances, according to a department press release.

  January 27, 2012

• Beech Street getting a facelift, including better sidewalks

  What can only be described as an overall facelift is going on along Beech Street that, when finished, will see the main West Picayune north-south thoroughfare from Goodyear Boulevard to Jackson Landing Road overlaid with a smooth surface and refurbished with new sidewalks.

  January 27, 2012 1 Photo

• Stennis testing next generation space flight engines

  Testing and development of the next engine that will take humans beyond low Earth orbit is underway.

  January 26, 2012 1 Photo

• Laurent guilty verdict appeal denied

  An appeal by Leo Lucas Laurent, who was found guilty of the 2007 murder of his wife, Brandi Laurent, has been denied by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

  January 26, 2012

• Dungan wants workshop with supervisors

  Pearl River County consulting engineer Les Dungan said he has requested that supervisors participate in a workshop in which priorities on projects funded by State-Aid road funds would be set for the next four years.

  January 26, 2012 1 Photo

Sports

• Blue Devils face forfeitures

  Pearl River Central’s Boys basketball team is in the midst of one of its best seasons on the hardwood in a decade. The Blue Devils, however, face the possibility of having to forfeit many, if not all of their 15 wins.

  January 24, 2012

• Local teams split hoops games
• River splits
• Moultrie’s big numbers lead MSU
• Seal paces PRC to big win

Lifestyles

• Civic Woman’s Club of Picayune announces awards for 2012

  The GFWC-MFWC Civic Woman’s Club of Picayune held its local Awards Program and Founder Recognition on January 19.

  January 25, 2012 1 Photo

• Picayune Band Booster Club hold successful fundraiser
• Writers Group hosts evening of Haiku and refreshments
• Snippits: Awww, rats!
• Ask Mr. Know-it-All: Primrose path has roots in Shakespeare

State News

• Ladner trial rescheduled in Katrina cleanup case

  The trial of a former county road manager from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and his wife has been rescheduled for May 14 in federal court in Gulfport.

  January 27, 2012

• Adams SO moving to paperless records
• Suspect in priest’s death found dead
• No files on pardoned Miss. killers
• Judge grants delay in cancer clinic case

International

• Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship

  Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship, but is it realistic to expect skippers to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to stare down death from the bridge, as the lights go out and the water rises, until everyone else has made it to safety?

  January 20, 2012

• Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem
• Theory of relativity called into question
• Syrian protesters attack US embassy
• US aid cutoff followed by drone strike in Pakistan

Opinion

• Free press battle in Israel

  By Nat Hentoff/Syndicated columnist
  I have been reporting on Israel since before its Declaration of Independence in 1948. This is a nation that purportedly entitles everyone within its borders to freedom of the press; the Palestinian Authority certainly exercises that freedom.

  January 26, 2012

• Reeves and Gunn embrace Democrats
• Where state taxes come from
• Cowlicks and other phrases
• Cowlicks and other phrases

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