Sentence 1: It runs from east to west for , serving 7 counties : Claiborne , Copiah , Hinds , Rankin , Smith , Jasper , and Clarke .
Sentence 2: It runs from east to west for and serves 7 counties : Claiborne , Copiah , Hinds , Rankin , Clarke , Jasper and Smith .

Do these two sentences convey the same information?
yes