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Latest George County Trials News
Country superstar George Jones dead at 81
Mississippi
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81. Jones died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to his publicist Kirt Webster. He had been hospitalized with fever and irregular blood ...
May 05 2013
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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant Claims: "There is No One who Doesn’t Have Health Care in Americ
Mississippi
During an interview with Kaiser Health News Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) said he opposes Obamacare because every single American already has the health care. Gov. Bryant refuses to expand his Mississippi’s Medicaid program, which would extend health coverage to an additional 200,000 low-income residents. Gov. Bryant echoed former President George W. Bush and GOP presidential candidate Mitt ...
February 09 2013
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Two killed in George County accident
Mississippi
GEROGE COUNTY -- A two-vehicle collision that resulted in two deaths Friday night remains under investigation, officials said.
February 02 2013
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Bush family quiet about hospitalized former president's condition
Mississippi
Former President George H.W. Bush's family sought privacy and provided no new details Thursday about his medical condition, a day after his spokesman said he's in intensive care after being hospitalized for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough.
January 10 2013
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Former President Bush moved out of intensive care
Mississippi
A spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush's condition continues to improve and that he was moved Saturday out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room.
January 02 2013
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Health Reform Could Provide More Than a Million Women with Access to Potentially Life Saving Tests
Mississippi
WASHINGTON--A study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) indicates that full implementation of the Affordable Care Act would expand health insurance coverage for more low-income women, enabling more than a million women to obtain potentially life-saving screening for breast and cervical cancer. The study, "Health Care Reform and ...
December 07 2012
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ACA: More than a million women could gain access to potentially life saving tests for cancer
Mississippi
( George Washington University ) A study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services indicates that full implementation of the Affordable Care Act would expand health insurance coverage for more low-income women, enabling more than a million women to obtain potentially life-saving screening for breast and cervical cancer. The study, "Health Care ...
December 07 2012
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George Co. teen gets new electric wheels to move around
Mississippi
Christmas has come early for a disabled George County High teen. The quadriplegic-hearing impaired student needed an electric wheelchair, but couldn't afford one. Thanks to George Regional Health System Southeast Rehab, the teen now has the freedom to move.
December 06 2012
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Man killed in collision with train
Lucedale, mississippi
A 23-year-old George County man has died after being his vehicle collided with a freight train. Anthony Neil Pugh was pronounced dead at the scene.
September 22 2012
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Trail to find Biloxi man's murderer is very cold
Pascagoula, Mississippi
George Hartline died more than three-and-a-half years ago. When his body was discovered in a Royal Gulf Apartments unit, Biloxi police said his death was suspicious. They quickly realized somebody murdered the 69-year-old.  But since that day in March, 2009, clues have dried up, and the trail to find Hartline's alleged killer has gotten very cold.
September 13 2012
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Witnesses testify for woman accused in George County sheriff's death
Lawrence, mississippi
OXFORD -- The defense rested its case Friday for Brandy Nicole Williams, accused of running down and killing George County Sheriff Garry Welford with a Chevrolet pickup July 21, 2010. Williams indicated she would not testify. Her trial is being held at the Lafayette County courthouse after the venue was changed from South Mississippi.
September 08 2012
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Defense rests in trial over George Co. sheriff's murder
Mississippi
The woman accused of killing George County Sheriff Garry Welford during a chase in 2010 could know her fate by Monday. That's when the capital murder case could be handed over to a jury. Brandy Williams has been on trial this week in Oxford, where the case was moved due to pretrial publicity.
September 07 2012
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Forensics experts testify about Garry Welford's death
Mississippi
OXFORD -- The state called several crime scene and forensics experts Wednesday during the capital murder trial of Brandy Nicole Williams, who is accused of running down George County Sheriff Garry Welford with a Chevrolet pickup and killing him on July 21, 2010.
September 06 2012
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Trial Underway in Sheriff's Death
Oxford, Mississippi
Brandy Nicole Williams, accused of driving the truck that struck and killed George County Sheriff Garry Welford, is on trial in Oxford.
September 05 2012
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Trial opens for woman accused in sheriff's death
Oxford, Mississippi
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A George County sheriff's deputy says the pickup truck that ran over Sheriff Garry Welford hit him so hard it knocked him out of his boots.
September 05 2012
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George County deputies describe sheriff's last moment
Mississippi
OXFORD -- Testimony in Brandy Nicole Williams' capital murder trial began Tuesday at the Lafayette County Courthouse in Oxford. Williams is accused in the 2010 killing of George County Sheriff Garry Welford. Her trial had been moved to north Mississippi on a change-of-venue request by her attorney.
September 05 2012
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