A celebration of life will be held for Donald O’Neal Vaughn at 11:30 am on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at Friendship Baptist Church with visitation from 9:30 until the time of the service. Burial will be ...

A Navy Cross recipient from Brookhaven will be the subject of this month’s historical presentation by the Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society. In March 1942, Lt. Commander Hiram Cassedy ...

Three men were arrested just before midnight Saturday after a fight broke out at a Brookhaven truck stop. A 9-1-1 call made at 11:29 p.m. reported a fight going on at the Fleetway Travel Center on ...

Rain did not keep Lincoln Countians from assembling on Memorial Day morning to remember those individuals who gave their lives in service to their nation. The 99 names on the Lincoln County Veterans ...

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 ...

Phi Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. recently hosted a New Member Luncheon at the Southwest Mississippi Community College Workforce Center to introduce its six newest members, under ...

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

Two Lincoln County students each received a $500 scholarship from the Mississippi Association of Supervisors. Brady Durr and Amelia Thornton were presented with certificates and checks at the May 18 ...

Seven members of the Wesson Cobra All-Superior band recently signed scholarships to further their band careers at the next level. Tate Brister signed a scholarship with Co-Lin’s Blue Wave Show Band to ...

Twelve members of Phi Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., in Southwest Mississippi, recently travelled to the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Alabama, to attend the 94th South Eastern ...

A Bogue Chitto woman was killed Tuesday in a single-vehicle wreck on Apple Trail SW in Lincoln County. A 2006 Subaru Outback was traveling south on Apple Trail between Auburn Drive and Springfield ...

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 ...