Over the course of 36 years, Flowood Mayor Gary Rhoads has turned his city from a sleepy bedroom community town into an economic development engine in Rankin County. Rhoads is now ready to hand off ...

Rankin County will again be home to a second major movie theater as Virginia-based Legacy Theaters plans to reopen the former United Artists Parkway Place multiplex in Flowood on Friday, Nov. 10. Now ...

Over in Flowood, a local company is providing hundreds of jobs while making a global impact in the medical field.

When Nathan Glenn was 9 years old in 1984, his father, Tim Glenn, put him to work from time to time at the original Rooster's Restaurant on Roach Street in downtown Jackson. He would pick up trash, ...

Preparing for the future of economic development is something the City of Flowood has been very good at in the last decade. Flowood's latest non-sexy, but necessary-for-the-future projects was just ...

16 WAPT'S KEEGAN FOXX HAS HIS STORY. WILLIE BERRY GOT A BIG SURPRISE WEDNESDAY WHEN HE ARRIVED AT LOWE'S IN FLOWOOD. <I DON'T THINK HE QUITE KNOWS WHAT TO THINK BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE WAS JUST COMING ...

Kathy Smith is the newly elected mayor of Flowood, marking the first time in over 30 years that the city has welcomed a new mayor. Smith, a 16-year alderwoman, defeated her Republican opponent Greg ...

YOU UPDATED RIGHT HERE ON 16 WAPT AND ON OUR WEB. THE FLOWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SEARCHING FOR A MISSING 21-YEAR-OLD MAN. INVESTIGATORS SAY DAVION HOLMES LEFT RIVER OAKS HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT AND HAS ...