Welcome to Yazoo City

It took all of 20 seconds to be patched through to Yazoo City’s mayor, McArthur Straughter, when a reporter called to discuss homegrown talent Fletcher Cox. It is a topic most of the 11,000 residents that make up the quaint Mississippi town ...

I’ve written recently about the success a few Mississippi small businesses and artists have ... Willie’s boy, wanted to do about Yazoo City. “Yazoo Revisited” would have examined via interviews with people who were there — including ...

Rosalyn Gloscoe was working with the volunteer efforts to financially help those who were displaced. She works with the "Yazoo Humanitarian Recovery" that raised a half million dollars through charities and churches " I’m not going to say ...

Lucius Woods of Yazoo City has driven back and forth to this dusty border town for five years now to play the Louisiana Lottery. Total winnings: $220. Despite his record, Woods hopes a lottery will one day come to Mississippi, one of only seven ...

But his name was largely lost to history after his 1883 murder in Mississippi by a white mob irate that he ... Foote took a position in Yazoo City as a deputy collector for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which was responsible for enforcing the nation's ...