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October 23, 2026
**Nearly 100 elderly people reside at Brookdale Senior Living in Clinton which h caught fire late Wednesday. All but residents were rescued from the fire. The two who didn’t make it were an 82-year-old man and an 81-year-old woman. The cause of the fire at Brookdale isn’t known yet. Officials are now working to find replacement housing and provide residents with clothing and medication.
**A tractor-trailer hauling a load of chicken overturned on Interstate 20 in Clinton early last night after experiencing a front tire blowout. Traffic to one lane on the westbound side for hours. The driver received minor injuries.
October 22, 2026
**A man believed to be homeless is hospitalized with multiple injuries after he was accidentally dumped into a garbage truck Monday morning. Officials say the man was either sleeping or scrounging in a dumpster behind the Circle K on Highway 61 South and Iowa Boulevard when a Waste Management truck emptied the container into the garbage truck..
**Mississippi’s two U.S. Senators, Congressman Bennie Thompson and Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann were in Vicksburg Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 114-million-dollar visitor center next to Vicksburg National Military Park. The facility is expected to be completed by 2030. A recent study estimates the center will attract an additional 200-thousand visitors, add 231-million dollars to the local economy and create more than 16-hundred jobs during its first seven years.
**A Vicksburg husband and wife are facing charges related to 6 attempted murders charges in Louisiana following a shooting in Madison Parish. Authorities say the incident began with an argument at a bar and continued later on the road. Elizabeth Vickers was arrested in Warren County, while Chad Vickers was found and arrested on a barge near Memphis.
**Vicksburg is moving ahead with cleanup of one of its biggest eyesores–the former U.S. Rubber site on Highway 61 South. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a notice for the contractor to proceed with the clean-up for the city-owned property at 2000 Rubber Way. A 960-thousand-dollar EPA grant will pay to remove about 30-thousand tons of rubber waste and other hazardous materials, with no local match required.
**The City of Vicksburg will celebrate the grand opening of Myrlie Evers Park this evening, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 1422 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The event will speech es, food trucks, children’s games, a DJ and other family activities are planned. Free shuttle service will be available from the Vicksburg City Auditorium beginning at 5 p.m.
October 21, 2026
**Joey Foster—until recently a Vicksburg-area business owner—was ordered held without bond yesterday by Judge James Chaney. Foster is charged with 19 counts of attempted possession of child pornography and one count of enticement of a child to meet for sexual purposes. The cases against Foster began when someone who claimed to be a 16-year-old girl in Florida offered to meet him in Jackson for sex and he allegedly made plans to do so. Then the messages between Foster and the alleged 16-year-old got posted to social media, and Foster disappeared for a few days. Investigators then said they found 19 child pornography attempts on his computer. If convicted of all charges, Foster could be sentenced to up to 700 years in prison.
**Vicksburg Mayor Willis Thompson says he is bringing in an independent firm to review the city’s insurance coverage on every building and piece of equipment it owns. Thompson says the goal is to make sure the city pays the correct amount for property insurance and that every dollar is accounted for. Vicksburg owns more than 100 buildings and structures. The now-defunct NRoute bus service may have been an eye-opener. Federal rules required NRoute to insure all 22 buses it owned, even though it operated only five. NRoute repeatedly turned to the city for help covering its expenses.
October 20, 2026
**Someone got shot on Main Street in Vicksburg Sunday night. Vicksburg police say the story is that it was an apparent accident in which the victim somehow shot himself. He was able to get himself to the emergency room.
**A new, state-of-the-art Vicksburg Civil War Interpretive Center) is currently on track to open in 2028. Located adjacent to the Vicksburg National Military Park, it’s a $114 million project of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), the National Park Service, and the Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign. The state-owned museum will replace the park’s outdated 1960s facility. Vicksburg’s mayor and aldermen and Warren County’s supervisors voted in their separate meetings yesterday to borrow 15-and-a-half-million-dollars for the project. Both governing bodies expect to repay that loan with taxes and fees from Entergy’s $1.5 billion generating plant project in Vicksburg-Warren County.
October 19, 2026
**Seven-year-old Paris Morris was killed in a UTV accident Saturday afternoon in Warren County. She was a second-grade student at Vicksburg Catholic School, Paris was the daughter of Nicholas Jones and Jessica Morris. She was among several children who were riding on the utility terrain vehicle. Two others received minor injuries when it overturned on property in the 3000 block of Bovina Cut Off Road.
**A 24-year-old Vicksburg man is in custody after a shooting Thursday morning on Adams Lane left a 60-year-old man—Tracy Dart—injurerd. Vicksburg police say Isaiah Smith and charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, two counts of armed robbery with a firearm, and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. His bond is set at $200,000. The victim, Tracy Dart, was hospitalized. His condition has not been released.
**The Vicksburg Warren School District improved its state accountability score this year— 615 points this year compared to last year’s 607. But state rules have changed so the higher score only got them a “C” grade this year, compared to last year’s “B.”
October 16, 2026
**If you plan on burning something today or tomorrow, don’t. The forecast calls for wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour and low humidity. Sparks from fires, discarded cigarettes, even tow chains scraping the road could quickly get out of hand. Warren and surrounding counties are under a red flag warning …meaning the risk is severe.
**Vicksburg police are investigating a shooting that occurred at a home on Adams Lane early yesterday. One man was hospitalized but no further details were released.
**The most frequently reported violent crime in Vicksburg is domestic violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
**Mayor Willis Thompson’s Vicksburg Right-of-Way Restoration Project showed what it can do by restoring the Cherry Street railroad Bridge. They cleared weeds, pressure-washed the bridge and sidewalks and repainted safety fencing and light poles. Mayor Thompson said this and future restoration projects are basic responsibility of city government and should have been done years ago. Thompson said the initiative will focus on portions of the most- traveled city streets so the greatest number of residents and visitors will see the results.
October 15, 2026
**Does Warren County need more immigrants? A Washington think-tank thinks so. The Niskanen Center studied all counties nationwide for its Migration Match Index. They considered data about the share of older residents, housing costs and vacancies, and whether job openings outnumber unemployed workers. The report identified more than 400 counties nationwide as good places for immigrants to locate, including Harrison, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Rankin, Lee, Madison, Union and Warren counties in Mississippi. The Niskanen Center presented their project strictly as an economic planning tool. They suggest voluntary state visa programs and incentives encouraging newcomers to settle in these communities where workers are needed.
**Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann says Mississippi is woefully behind in responding to cybersecurity breaches. Recent ransomware attacks have caused the shutdown of at least 69 official city and county websites, including Vicksburg.gov and Warrencounty.gov. Hosemann says other recent victims were Institutions of Higher Learning, the Employment Security Commission, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Hosemann has been meeting with lawmakers to discuss the crisis and how to protect against such attacks in the future.
**The Warren County man accused of shooting his girlfriend in both legs after an argument on Long Lake Road Sunday night has turned himself in. 51-year-old James Michael Hart was charged with aggravated assault. His bond was set at 75-thousand dollars.
**Gov. Tate Reeves has re-appointed Dana Sims as district attorney for Mississippi’s 23rd Circuit Court District, which covers Claiborne, Copiah and Jefferson counties. The appointment ends December 31st. She was first appointed by a circuit judge and was already serving in the position.
October 12, 2026
**A cyberattack on a website host used by government entities has taken down Madison County’s website and affected 69 other Mississippi government websites, including Warren, Hinds and Clarke counties. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety, the FBI and Homeland Security are investigating.
**Vicksburg’s city government suffered from a ransomware attack October first. The public has not been informed yet whether a ransom was asked for or paid. Mayor Willis Thompson says progress toward getting back to normal is steady. Mayor Thompson—in a statement issued Friday—says cybersecurity experts are still actively engaged in “assessing the affected systems” and “carefully restoring operations.”
**The Annual Governor’s Job Fair in Vicksburg will be held tomorrow at the Vicksburg Convention Center from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. Some companies will be hiring on the spot.
October 9, 2026
**Curtis Flowers, the Mississippi man who spent more than 20 years on death row, has died a free man at age 56. Flowers was tried 6 times and convicted 4 times for the 1996 murders of four people at the furniture store where he once worked in Winona. Four of those trials ended with death sentences.
Flowers was arrested 12 weeks after the killings and convicted by overwhelmingly white juries. Prosecutors presented no physical evidence, DNA, fingerprints or murder weapon. They convicted him with the testimony of a jailhouse snitch — testimony that later fell apart.
Higher courts overturned all four convictions, repeatedly criticizing District Attorney Doug Evans for racial discrimination and prosecutorial misconduct. Evans later turned the case over to the state. In 2020, Attorney General Lynn Fitch dismissed the charges with prejudice, ending the prosecution and leaving Flowers a free man.
Mississippi later compensated Flowers at a rate of 50-thousand dollars a year.
October 8, 2026
**Hurricane Isaias could bring heavy rain, gusty winds and flash flooding to Vicksburg and Warren County this weekend. The storm is expected to strengthen before reaching the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. Forecasters say three to five inches of rain could fall Friday night through Saturday night, with tropical-storm-force winds reaching the I-20 corridor as early as Friday evening. Residents should monitor official updates because the track could still shift.
**The race for Ninth District Chancery Judge has taken an unusual turn following the death of incumbent Judge Vicki Barnes. Barnes and Penny Lawson were seeking the seat serving Issaquena, Sharkey and Warren counties. Lawson, a Port Gibson municipal judge and Vicksburg municipal judge pro-tem, is now the only living candidate on the ballot. But Barnes’ re-election committee is still urging voters to support the late judge, saying a Barnes victory would honor her legacy and trigger a special election that other candidates could enter.
October 7, 2026
**Roosevelt Harris has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2024 stabbing death of Christie Michelle Ware. Ware was found dead on the bedroom floor of her home in the 800 block of Clark Street. Prosecutors told the court that Harris and Ware had argued before Harris went into the kitchen, returned with a knife and killed her. Harris will be sentenced at a later date.
**With the new Warren County jail almost ready for occupancy, the Warren County Sheriff’s Department is holding a two-day job fair on the jail premises at 1200 Highway 80. The job fair will run from 11 a.m. till 3:30 both Wednesday and Thursday. The sheriff’s department is offering competitive pay and benefits for positions in law enforcement, detention and administration. Anyone interested in a career serving the community is invited to stop by the new jail and apply.
October 6, 2026
**There was a murder yesterday in Vicksburg in a tent community of homeless people in the woods near the dead-end of Patton Street. A man, whose identity is being withheld for now, was shot multiple times in the chest. Chief Larry Burns says one person has been detained for questioning.
**Vicksburg’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen has recognized October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Police department figures show domestic violence accounts for 41-point-2 percent of all reported crime in Vicksburg, making it the city’s largest single crime category. Police received 150 domestic violence reports from January through August of this year. Warren County figures were not available. Statewide, at least 96 Mississippians died in domestic violence-related incidents in 2024, the most recent year for which statistics are available.
October 5, 2026
**The Yazoo City Police Department says 20-year-old Fredrick Washington was shot just after midnight Sunday morning. He died a few minutes after being brought to Baptist Medical Center.
**A loud blast near the Bovina Grocery Store Friday prompted multiple calls to 911. It turned out to be perfectly legal Tannerite…a loud explosive used for target practice with high velocity rifles.
**Mississippi requires voter I.D. in order to vote, and the rules make it easy to get that I.D., according to Sarah Dionne, the Warren County Election Commission Chairperson: “Not only do you get accepted if you have a valid driver’s license, but even if you have an expired driver’s license within 10 years of the election, or if you have any government-issued photo ID, whether it’s a federal or state or even local—even a public school ID. Also, they accept IDs from other states. If you’ve moved here from another state and still have your old driver’s license, that will be accepted as well. Beyond that, if you have no ID, you can go to the circuit clerk’s office, and for free they will make you a photo ID that you can then use to vote.”
**President Donald Trump is promising that every American adult will receive $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the November 3rd elections. Last month he said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He’s also promising 20 million seniors a $90 one- time-only Medicare payment. In 2025, the President promised every adult a $5,000 “DOGE Dividend” but it didn’t happen. And he promised every adult a Tariff Rebate Check of $2,000 but that didn’t happen either.
October 2, 2026
**Warren County Sheriff’s Deputy Mitt Goza was injured when he lost control of the sheriff’s department motorcycle he was riding yesterday on Highway 61 South. Deputy is being treated at a hospital in Jackson.
October 1, 2026
**Absentee voting is already underway. Circuit Clerk Jan Hyland Daigre says, “We are absentee voting now, Monday through Friday eight to five. We have three Saturdays that we are open: October third (this coming Saturday), October 24th and October 31st, from 8 – 12 at the courthouse.“
**Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson says high fuel prices are straining Mississippi’s economy and that farmers, loggers and working families need relief soon. Leaders from 22 Mississippi agriculture and forestry groups are calling on Gov. Tate Reeves for fuel tax relief but they say that Reeves feels like he doesn’t have the authority to do so. Meanwhile, the upsurge in fuel prices have caused some Mississippi logging operations to shut down already. Farmers can’t simply shut down and they can’t set their own prices so they’re trying to survive as their costs rise dramatically. The governors of Alabama and Arkansas have already provided fuel tax relief in their states. But governor Tate Reeves reportedly feels like he doesn’t have the authority to do so.
