Joint operation by the Clay County Sheriff's Office, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, and the Department of Corrections has landed one man in jail and taken a quantity of meth off the streets.
The old Columbus and Greenwood railroad tracks in Maben sit unused with brush overgrowing the tracks and the ground sunken in places. It brings no new business or agriculture to town, and drivers are cautious as the double tracks give their cars a giant thud when going over them.