As the Rev. Andrew Miller makes his rounds around the historic DeSoto County Square, he is quick to shake a hand or ask about a family member.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials, both of this region's sitting U.S. senators and a host of representatives inked their signatures to a joint cost sharing/feasibility agreement that will address major flooding issues in Mississippi's fastest growing county.
For the third day this week, a DeSoto County school was threatened through a post on social media. It’s become an unfortunate recurring event that is trying the patience of school and law enforcement officials, parents, and even the students affected.
Southaven fire officials were Friday afternoon still trying to determine a cause for a residential fire that destroyed the home.
Senior citizens have many issues they have to deal with as they travel through the “golden” years of their lives. Questions abound, from financial planning and retirement to medical issues, Medicare and Medicaid, insurance, living choices from self-care in their residence to assisted living …
DeSoto County sheriff's deputies are searching the area of I-55 near Love Road in search of Justin Allen Jones who fled on foot from Hernando officers after a traffic stop.
Kim Terrell's mission is to promote Mississippi's fastest growing county, but also to extol the virtues of an international club that enables even the most reluctant speaker among us to have the courage and talent to engage in public speaking.
Working hard to encourage more voter participation, not just in November but in every election, Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is logging a lot of miles in visits across the state ahead of Election Day.
The living, breathing document that is the United States Constitution has served this nation well for 229 years.
Southaven aldermen heard more talk about streets at their Tuesday meeting, some of it about more money being made available from the state Legislature for future work, but some of it also involved complaints from residents concerning the seal coat work being completed on Rasco Road.
A shooting at a Memphis construction site Tuesday ended after a chase into Southaven and the apprehension of five suspects.
Law enforcement and the DeSoto County School District (DCS) had to deal with a social media threat to a school and its students for the second straight day on Wednesday.
A juvenile is in trouble for reposting on social media old Snapchat posts that appeared to be making threats against Horn Lake High School.
DeSoto Countians have responded in a big way to hurricane relief efforts in North and South Carolina and along the Atlantic Coast from sending first responders to feeding emergency personnel.
Progress is at a brisk pace on the Silo Square business park and neighborhood development project along Getwell Road in Southaven. Just notice and look at the earthmovers, dirt and open land on the west side of the thoroughfare where trees and sunflowers used to be.
A 31-year-old man died in a motorcycle accident Sunday in Horn Lake after apparently losing control and crashing into a guardrail.
The person in charge of overseeing the electoral process in the state of Mississippi is getting proactive about promoting the right and obligation for citizens to vote on Election Day, Nov. 6.
Some of Southaven’s streets have become reminiscent of the trails in the “Old West” this week as the seal coating part of the city’s street improvement project is underway.
Architect Doug Thornton said when he reads the Creation story in the Book of Genesis the entire passage reads like a blueprint for the creative process employed by draftsmen, artists and architects alike.
Step by step, Native Chickasaw dancers joined hands and danced rhythmically to the rattles of turtle shells strapped onto deerskin moccasins, stomping their feet in unison and chanting songs their ancestors sang long ago.
About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NQT).
The DeSoto County School District’s Parent Advisory Council turned its Tuesday meeting this week into a special program to honor victims and those who helped in the aftermath of the terror attacks on the day in September 2001 now known as “9/11.”
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and his staff are hosting a special community meeting at the DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando today in advance of the No. 6 general election and simultaneous special nonpartisan election for the open U.S. Senate seat.
A 62-year-old Olive Branch man has been arrested and charged for being in possession of child pornography, according to DeSoto County authorities.
On the heels of last year's highly successful Veterans Day Parade, organizers are hoping to raise enough money to purchase enough American flags to line the parade route along DeSoto County's historic Square.
Hernando aldermen are poised to adopt a $14.672 million balanced budget, which is less than last year’s budget of $16.08 million.
Hernando aldermen are poised to adopt a $14.672 million balanced budget, which is less than last year’s budget of $16.08 million.
It used to be that little boys loved to play “cops and robbers” using toy guns, or perhaps “cowboys and Indians” with little bows and arrows, and even “pirates” with plastic swords. Some, especially in the rural South, learned to handle the real thing early in life.
DeSoto County cities are basking in the limelight of having not one but four of its cities among Mississippi's "Top 10 Safest Cities," according to the public safety database and web site SafeWise.
It has taken more than 50 years and four mayoral administrations, but the City of Olive Branch is set to take ownership of its airport.
The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $161 million budget without a tax increase, a feat owed primarily to the rising value of DeSoto County property.
Three City of Hernando Parks and Recreation employees have been cleared of any wrongdoing following an internal probe into a situation involving a contract individual who formerly worked in conjunction with the city's parks and recreation youth league activities.
Cami Beard, a fourth-grader at Oak Grove Central Elementary School, and Charlie Cross, a third-grader at Lewisburg Elementary School, led the DeSoto County Schools Board of Education meeting in the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of its Thursday, Sept. 6 meeting in Hernando.
Brittany Clark with ALSAC, fundraising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, presents a recognition plaque to Oak Grove Central Elementary School principal Stacey Pirtle and Lewisburg Elementary School principal Sherry Anderson with DCS Supt. Cory Uselton congratulating the administr…
A wrecker truck works to remove the cab of a semi-trailer truck that overturned Friday morning on I-55 northbound near Starlanding Road. The accident caused the northbound interstate to be closed at about 6 a.m. for about six hours. The roadway was initially completely closed and later had t…
DeSoto County Tax Collector Joey Treadway peruses the online DeSoto County Tax Sale this past week. Treadway is preparing his annual report on the tax sale which he will present to the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors.
Note to Southaven residents thinking street repair crews left your street undone: you’ve not been forgotten, they are coming back.
The City of Hernando has postponed approval of its 2018-19 budget until at least one more week - consideration of the budget was put off until next Monday at a special recessed meeting of the city board.
Warmer weather and a bumper crop of produce has helped America's 13th "Best Farmers Market" rebound.
The Hernando City Board met in executive session Tuesday night involving personnel in the Parks and Recreation Department.
A DeSoto County hospital has received recognition calling it a “Designated Baby-Friendly” birth facility. Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto becomes the first hospital in the Baptist Memorial Health Care system to earn the award.
For rookie firefighter Hunter Means, 23, there was no rest on Labor Day, the day set aside to give respite from the toil and sweat of work.
Each year, the Maddox Foundation Volunteer Center (formerly Volunteer Northwest Mississippi) hosts an event to observe the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance and there are big plans in the works to make this year another great occasion.
The man arrested in Southaven late last month on sexual battery and producing child pornography charges is back in Louisiana facing those charges.
A Horn Lake firefighter was severely injured in a motorcycle accident Sunday evening along Interstate 69.
Southaven Police Department Detective Sgt. Tyler Price was presented with the FBI CJIS commendation at FBI CJIS Headquarters in Clarksburg, West Virginia earlier this month for recognition as having been selected for the FBI CJIS NDex Success Story of the Year. Price received this award on b…
Horn Lake Mayor Allen Latimer is making tracks in his spare time — literally.
In the 1940s, Irish-born author C.S. Lewis penned the first of seven novels that – combined into a single work – would become his most famous under the title, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”
DeSoto County services in many cases will join the rest of the public in taking a day off Monday to observe Labor Day.
In an effort to reach out to the different racial segments of the area, a Southaven church wants to “start the conversation” of bringing unity and embracing diversity in a country that in many ways remains divided today.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) reminds motorists to stay off Interstate 269 while it is under construction.
