A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with ...

A garbage trucker worker from Amite was hit by a car and killed while working north of Covington early Friday morning, Louisiana State Police said in a press release. Benjamin Bonura, 26 ...

FRANKLINTON, La. (WGNO) — An Amite man has been convicted in the case of a fatal shooting that happened in Franklinton in 2021. The Office of District Attorney Collin Sims reported that a ...

Franklin, Amite and Wilkinson counties took the brunt of Saturday night’s storm system in Southwest Mississippi, as large ...

Black bears have been generating headlines in Mississippi all year long — and Louisiana too, for that matter. From a ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) — The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) received weekend storm damage reports from 20 ...

5 p.m. update NWS issued a tornado warning for southeastern Wilkinson County and western Amite County in southern Mississippi until 6:30 p.m. Saturday. A tornado warning was issued for northern ...

Several other counties, including Amite, Copiah, Clarke, Desoto, Franklin, Lincoln, and Simpson, have also reported storm ...

Amite County Middle School is a public school located in Liberty, MS, which is in a remote rural setting. The student population of Amite County Middle School is 131 and the school serves 7-8.The ...

In some swaths of the South, a big event like high school football unites people. But not in Amite County. Just beyond the Trojans’ scoreboard, past a stand of trees, another scoreboard lit up.