CRIME & ACCIDENT * From Staff Reports

An interrupted burglary landed two Port Gibson men in jail Tuesday night.

Arrested were Mark Grayer, 46, 1055 Lucas Drive, and Donshay Hamlin, 24, 2151 Old Highway 61.

Claiborne County Chief Deputy Freddie Yarbrough said the men were picked up at about 9:30 while attempting to leave a home in the 1000 block of Oil Mill Road.

According to reports, someone called the sheriff’s department after seeing a suspicious vehicle parked in front of the home and saw men loading items into the trunk of the vehicle.

Deputies responded and were able to block the vehicle in the driveway and make the arrests. Yarbrough said an air-conditioner and other items were recovered in the trunk of the vehicle.

The two men were being held without bond at the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Department this morning

Tree credited with savingteens’ vehicle from lakeTwo Madison High School students on their way to school may have been saved by a tree after they wrecked and nearly landed in Bear Lake Tuesday morning, a Madison Parish official said.

The nearly lakebound Ford Explorer was driven by a 17-year-old girl with a 15-year-old girl as a passenger, Deputy Chief Sammie Byrd said. The two were going over the dam on Bear Lake Road when the driver lost control near a curve and the vehicle left the road. The Explorer went down the dam toward the lake but was stopped by a tree just before hitting the water.

“That tree was the only thing that saved them from going in that lake,” Byrd said.

He said the teens were treated and released from Madison Hospital.