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June 12, 2026
**A vintage two-story home in the 2200 block of Cherry Street was heavily damaged by fire last night. The fire apparently began in the laundry room, spread from the back of the house through the second floor and into the turret, before firefighters brought it under control.
**The Miss Mississippi preliminaries continued last night at the Convention Center. The talent winner was Miss Tupelo Mackenzie Cox. There was a tie for the Health and Fitness competition: Miss University Cameron Davis and Miss All American City Mallory Chase Faulkner.
**The first preliminary Miss Mississippi’s Teen was held yesterday afternoon at the Convention Center, and the first day winners were: Miss Meridian Teen- Chasity Vincent …Miss Metro Jackson Teen- Madalyn Sullivan…and Miss Madison County Teen- Ryleigh Touchstone.
**It’s not too late to register your child for the Vicksburg Police Department’s annual Street Ball program. It’s a 6 week basketball camp the police department has sponsored since the early 2000’s. Get more information at the police department’s Facebook page.
A vintage two-story home in the 2200 block of Cherry Street was heavily damaged by fire last night. The fire apparently began in the laundry room, spread from the back of the house through the second floor and into the turret, before firefighters brought it under control.
The Miss Mississippi preliminaries continued last night at the Convention Center. The talent winner was Miss Tupelo Mackenzie Cox. . There was a tie for the Health and Fitness competition: Miss University Cameron Davis and Miss All American City Mallory Chase Faulkner.
The first preliminary Miss Mississippi’s Teen was held yesterday afternoon at the Convention Center, and the first day winners were: Miss Meridian Teen- Chasity Vincent …Miss Metro Jackson Teen- Madalyn Sullivan…and Miss Madison County Teen- Ryleigh Touchstone.
It’s not too late to register your child for the Vicksburg Police Department’s annual Street Ball program. It’s a 6 week basketball camp the police department has sponsored since the early 2000’s. Get more information at the police department’s Facebook page.
**Yazoo City police say a 2:30 a.m. shootout Thursday in a residential neighborhood resulted in a bullet going into a bedroom and striking a headboard. It lodged just above the head of a sleeping child.
June 11, 2026
**On the first night of the 2026 Miss Mississippi preliminary competition the judges selected Miss Capital City Jane Granberry as the talent winner and Miss Metro Jackson Nataleigh Nix as the fitness Winner. Both Jane and Natalie previously held the title of Miss Mississippi’s Teen. Miss Mississippi preliminaries continue tonight at 8 at the Vicksburg Convention Center.Miss Mississippi’s Teen competition preliminaries will be held today and tomorrow at the Vicksburg Convention Center at 4:30 each afternoon.
**There was a gunfight at Parkwood South Apartments on Bazinsky Road at 1:30 a.m. yesterday. Multiple shooters were involved and the end result was one woman being shot in the leg. Vicksburg Police are still working to identify the shooters.
**Judge James Chaney had a warning for the District Attorney’s office yesterday in the case of Tavon Cain, who was arrested for the 2024 murder of Korey Sims Jr. of Vicksburg and wounding three other people. Eight grand jury sessions have come and gone since Cain was charged, and his case has not been heard. If the DA’s office doesn’t present it to the August grand jury, Judge Chaney indicated he would consider dismissing the murder and aggravated assault charges. Meanwhile, Cain remains behind bars on various other charges incurred after he originally got out on bail in the murder case.
**Amazon Web Services (AWS) is investing more than $25 billion in data centers in Mississippi, including locations in Madison County, Ridgeland, Vicksburg, and Clinton. And they’re doing it with very little government oversight according to Central District Public Service Commissioner De’Keither Stamps. Stamps is calling for stronger regulatory oversight of Data Centers and giving citizens a direct voice in what locates in their communities.
June 10, 2026
**73-year-old George Flaggs remains hospitalized following a medical emergency on Saturday. Flaggs, a longtime state legislator and Vicksburg’s mayor from 2013 to 2025, is in Jackson receiving specialized neurological care.
**The City of Clinton had a ribbon cutting yesterday for their new billion dollar data center. The Amazon Web Services (AWS), center is located inside the long-abandoned Delphi building in the Clinton Industrial Park. Clinton Mayor Will Purdie called it “…the most significant economic development project in the history of Clinton.” A $3 billion AWS Center is coming to Vicksburg. There are nearly 3,000 new data centers either planned or currently under construction nationwide in states that allow them. This massive wave of infrastructure development is being driven by the explosive demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. More than 3,000 such facilities are already fully operational
**Preliminary Competition in the Miss Mississippi contest begins tonight at 8 at the Vicksburg Convention Center. Tickets for the evening preliminary rounds at the Vicksburg Convention Center are $30 and can be reserved via the Purplepass Miss Mississippi Tickets Page or by calling (601) 638-6746. If you cannot attend in person, the preliminary events will be streamed online at missmisslive.com
June 8, 2026
**38 contestants for the Miss Mississippi title are in Vicksburg this week. Preliminaries will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 8 o’clock each night at the Vicksburg Convention Center, with the finals on Saturday evening. It’s the 68th time Vicksburg has hosted the Miss Mississippi competition. Miss Mississippi’s Teen will also be crowned here this week, with preliminaries Thursday and Friday at 4:30 at the Convention Center and the finals Saturday at 2 p.m. The annual Miss Mississippi parade will be on Washington Street tonight at 7.
**One man suffered burns to the upper body in a car fire Saturday in the 3100 block of Oak Street. Vicksburg firefighters kept the blaze from spreading to the nearby house.
**The Hollins family—two adults and three children– lost everything in a fire that destroyed their home recently. They’ll be the recipients of money raised in a softball tournament beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Softball Complex, 100 Army Navy Drive in Vicksburg. To register a team, participate as an individual, or become a sponsor, contact the organizers at 601-738-1242.
**Visitors to Vicksburg National Military Park July 4th and 5th will be treated to a special reenactment of the city’s surrender to General Grant on July 4, 1863. Drawing on original journal entries, letters, reports, and other firsthand accounts, the program will bring those final hours to life.
June 5, 2026
**The accused killer of 47- year-old Clarinda Turpin Wednesday night in Vicksburg had his bond set at 5-million-dollars yesterday by Judge Angela Carpenter. The boyfriend Clarinda tried to break up with Jeremy Nathan Wright is charged with: • First-Degree Murder • Two Counts of Aggravated Assault • Shooting Into an Occupied Vehicle • and Possession of a Weapon by a Convicted Felon
**Synapse Energy Economics estimates that the average Mississippian’s power bill is up about $10.68 a month because of utility expenses tied to existing data centers across the state. The issue of power-company upgrades needed to serve data centers was discussed at yesterday’s Rotary meeting in Vicksburg with guest speaker Haley Fisackerly CEO of Entergy Mississippi. Fisackerly said the AWS Data Center coming to Vicksburg will be paying for things that will greatly help the local community: “We’re going to go after the biggest grid improvement in the company’s history…reduce outages by fifty percent… THAT we’re excited about. And here are some other ways we’re protecting you as well: AWS is bringing two billion dollars …that was two billion dollars that was gonna be in your bill for the next twenty years…that is being avoided and coming to you in more modern (power) plants, new investments and cleaner efficient plants.”
June 4, 2026
**Dan Fordice was practicing an aerobatic maneuver in his restored P-51 Mustang May 12th when he fatally crashed his aircraft according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB says Fordice was flying the plane in a federally approved aerobatics practice area along the west side of the Vicksburg-Tallulah Airport when he crashed during a maneuver. NTSB says witnesses reported that the engine sounded normal before they heard the sound of the impact. Dan Fordice had been recognized numerous times for his efforts in historic aviation.
**The Clinton board of Aldermen has amended the city’s zoning ordinance to give them a little more authority over where data centers can locate. A data center and a bitcoin mining facility are already approved for Clinton and more are looking for property there.
**Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has created a website called Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting …that now contains citizen reports on 3600 data centers across the nation. Brokovich says “I have spent my career listening to the people, especially those who were told to sit down and be quiet, who were told their backyard was safe and that the water was safe to drink, so when I started hearing from people about AI data centers appearing in their communities with little to no notice, I paid attention.”
June 3, 2026
**Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch says 4 human trafficking victims were recovered last week in Vicksburg. Fitch said the operation included investigators and prosecutors from her office plus the Mississippi Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Vicksburg Police Department and the Warren County Sheriff’s Department.
**This evening’s Community Listening Session on the subject of the AWS Data Center that’s planned for Vicksburg Warren County has been postponed. Community members were scheduled to hear from representatives of city, county and state government at the Medgar and Angela Scott Foundation, on Sherman Avenue at 5:30, but the session was called off with no notice of when it might be rescheduled.
June 2, 2026
**In the two o’clock hour on Sunday morning, the Vicksburg Police Department got called out for gunshots fired on Washington Street, and a guy showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound to the foot. Also in the two o’clock hour Sunday morning, the Warren County Sheriff’s Department investigated reports of gunshots in the Greenhill area of the county, and a guy turned up in the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the foot and allegedly lied about where it happened. On May 19th, there was another gunshot wound to the foot of a man who was on his way to the emergency room when he was stopped for speeding on MLK Boulevard. Law enforcement has not released names of the victims.
**A girl who graduated last month from Clinton High School was killed in a two-car collision over the weekend. Seventeen-year-old Ashlee Sumrall was a member of the band and the swim team. Three others were injured in the crash.
**A Warren County family lost everything in a house fire yesterday on Wright Road. The home was completely destroyed. The family of 5 needs help from the community with basic necessities. Clothing and other donated items are being collected at The Klondike, 100 North Washington Street. Sizes of clothing needed include Toddler boy size 4t. Boys size 6 or 7. Mom: xl shirts, and pants size 14 or xl. And for Dad: Double-X size shirts and 38-40 pants.
June 1, 2026
**For the second time in ten days, somebody got shot in the foot in the early hours of Sunday morning, this time near 2001 Washington Street. The previous foot-shooting location wasn’t verified. That victim was stopped by police while speeding to the hospital down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at about 2 a.m. on May 19th. Neither victim has been identified to the media.
**Friday morning, Vicksburg police received reports of shots fired in the 100 block of Elizabeth Circle. Then they got a report of someone walking into the emergency room with two gunshot wounds to the arm. They haven’t told us yet whether that was the Elizabeth Circle victim but the time frames match.
**The Vicksburg Warren School District board members have been informed that the District may be about a million dollars underfunded this year. That’s partly because of a decline in enrollment that will trigger cuts from state funding. The county will have to make up the difference.
