The Mississippi Department of Education Office of Child Nutrition has announced the US Department of Agriculture income guidelines for free and reduced-price meals. These guidelines are for meals ...

One man is dead and another person in custody after a Wednesday morning shooting in Lincoln County. At approximately 6:20 a.m., the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a person having ...

Funeral services for Ms. Eddie Jean Beard are at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at New Hope MB Church, Brookhaven, MS, with the Reverend Preston Wilson ...

Police are on scene of a shooting on North Jackson Street, near Cherry Street. Streets have been temporarily blocked for investigation. An investigator has confirmed it is an ongoing homicide ...

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JACKSON — License sales remain down in Fiscal Year 2025 for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Jason Thompson, Director of Administrative Services, gave the most recent ...

Lincoln County Election Commissioners recently attended the Election Commissioners’ Association of Mississippi conference in Philadelphia. They were awarded a trophy for best-represented county.

A 17-year-old and 18-year-old have been charged in connection with a drive-by shooting. On Monday, July 6, Nicolas Brian Golman, 17, of California Road, and Dezieone Diggs, 18, of McComb, drove past a ...

Mississippi Legislature passes youth court overhaul in special session MDE Child Nutrition announces USDA income guidelines for school food programs ...

A teenage boy died in a motorcycle wreck Sunday afternoon on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive after the dirt bike he was riding collided with a passenger vehicle. Brookhaven Chief of Police Dustin ...

Carson Temple, of Brookhaven, recently presented at the Mississippi State University Under-graduate Research Symposium. A biological sciences sophomore, Temple presented “Relation Between Emotional ...

Tuesday, April 1 is the Municipal Primary Election. In previous weeks, The Daily Leader has published responses to questionnaires from candidates for each office up for election in Brookhaven. Each of ...