DeSoto County School District board members have heard from an advocate for suicide prevention who hopes more tragedies like what happened to a Southaven Middle School 12-year-old can be prevented.Â
Mississippi Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert this week updated two road projects that affect DeSoto County drivers.
Mississippi 1st District U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly and his congressional counterpart, U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), held a field hearing on small business concerns in Southaven Monday, specifically on the subject of over-regulation and taxes.
The City of Horn Lake has a signed contract with the City of Memphis to handle its wastewater through the year 2023 but after that time it's still up in the air as to what entity will treat the city's wastewater.
Eighteen years ago, Wayne Bartley of Olive Branch was just a concerned dad who wanted the best education possible for his autistic Justin, then age five.
The head of the Mississippi Economic Council (MEC) sought to impress on the DeSoto County business community the need to invest in not only the present but future workforce for job growth and fulfillment in the state.Â
Early morning drivers on Sunday in the Southaven and Horn Lake area need to be aware of a brief road closure to plan around.
"What is dog spelled backward?" asked Larry Worthy, with a wide grin on his face, still sporting red bruises from a pit bull attack in his neighborhood. "It's God."
"Flag Day" was celebrated Thursday across the United States and in some towns and cities, officials showed their colors by displaying "Old Glory."
"Godspell," currently playing at Landers Center Theater Stage, is an up-tempo high-energy musical which tells of the ministry of Jesus Christ, albeit in a fresh, vibrant presentation that resonates in 21st century America.
Lobbying for support of flood control measures and wastewater projects has paid off for the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors and constituents they represent.
DeSoto County Superintendent of Schools Cory Uselton touted the success of the DeSoto County School system and the fact the county's stellar educational system is an economic draw to Mississippi's fastest-growing county.
Similar to planes that filled the skies over Normandy Beach on a blustery June day 74 years ago, a squadron of vintage fighter aircraft recently flew over another large body of water — the Mississippi River.
Longtime Fire and EMS Director Bobby Storey has at long last fought his last fire but the spark that led him to devote 48 years of his life — 21 with DeSoto County — and spend a career saving lives and property still remains.
The poet Robert Frost penned these words to one of his most famous poems:
When the DeSoto County School District (DCS) Board of Education gathers on Tuesday, June 12 at 3 p.m. for its annual budget hearing, board members expect to not be seeing one item on the district's proposal: a millage increase.
A Southaven man is facing attempted murder charges after an overnight incident centered on a Southaven apartment.Â
Truck Patch Revival, a Memphis-based country band, performs before a large crowd in front of the DeSoto County Courthouse Thursday evening. The concert was the first of the Sunset on the Square summer series hosted by the Hernando Main Street Chamber of Commerce. Mississippi Stomp will be fe…
The Rev. Jim Moore is a civil engineer by vocation and a pastor and chaplain by God's calling.
Getting a fright months before Halloween was an exercise in theater and presentation for students at Lake Cormorant Elementary School just before school let out for the summer.
The sounds of music will be emanating from the Courthouse Square in Hernando again with another year of the popular Sunset on the Square series, beginning Thursday night.
It was a battle of north versus south as U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo, defeated business owner Richard Warren Boyanton of Diamondhead, a costal community in south Mississippi.
Four juveniles were arrested Wednesday after a chase that went from Southaven’s Tanger Outlets Mall into Memphis.
After record rainfall this winter and no let-up during a particularly wet spring, the City of Hernando, like other places, is having to deal with major erosion issues.
The Gospel according to Jesus Christ which involves the life, death and resurrection of Jesus has never been put into words and pageantry quite like the DeSoto Family Theatre production of "GODSPELL" which premiered this Friday night on the Landers Center Stage and runs again next weekend.Â
The Gospel according to Jesus Christ which involves the life, death and resurrection of Jesus has never been put into words and pageantry quite like the DeSoto Family Theatre production of "GODSPELL" which premiered this Friday night on the Landers Center Stage and runs again next weekend.Â
Authorities during the noon hour Wednesday were working an accident on the southbound I-55 on-ramp at Pleasant Hill Road. The accident involved a logging truck that dropped its load of logs onto the road as it was making a turn. The on-ramp was blocked by the incident. There was no immediate…
The University of Mississippi-DeSoto honored BancorpSouth with the T.P. Vinson Award at its annual Graduation Celebration in May. The award, which honors individuals or organizations that support the campus, was presented to BancorpSouth for its 14 years of sponsoring the 2+2 Scholarship Gol…
DeSoto County primary election vote totals
Perception might be 99 percent of reality and in the case of the Clarksdale Virtual Reality Academy, a high-tech, cutting-edge training facility, a father-son team from Colorado is changing the reality of many Delta teens and changing lives in the process.
Aldermen in Southaven Tuesday night will continue their review and discussion of the 2018-2022 Parks Enhancement and Expansion Plan for the city, fueled by additional dollars coming in with the return of the Penny for the Parks levy, also known as a tourism tax.Â
A woman from Southaven has been charged in Tennessee with fraud against that state’s taxpayer-funded healthcare insurance program called TennCare.Â
For more than two and a half years, regular meetings of the I-269 Corridor Study Committee were held — with most meetings lasting three hours or more as planning commissioners and the the public held sway on planning for the nation's newest super highway.
Wayne Carter, longtime DeSoto County Planning Commissioner, was recently honored by the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors for his more than 24 years of service on the DeSoto County Planning Commission.
The king of the ribs at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest for another year comes again from DeSoto County: Mark West and his 10 Bones BBQ team.Â
The Northwest Mississippi Community College Division of Nursing received a check for $6,000 from the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi thanks to the 19th annual Shoot for the Heart fundraiser held in April in Tunica.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Boyanton discusses his platform with Charles Barry during a Friday breakfast stop at the Olive Branch Chick-fil-A. Boyanton made other stops in DeSoto County in advance of the Tuesday, June 5 primary election against incumbent U.S. Senator Roger Wicker.
Overall winners in the annual Laurie Wylie Memorial 5K held during A'Fair, an event sponsored by the Hernando Optimist Club, are (from left) Max Weiss, First Place Male; Riley Jackson, First Place Female; Russ Kicker, Second Place Male; Delaney Hopkins, Second Place Female; Logan Clark, Thir…
Their names are Holly and Candace and their lives have been transformed forever — due to the supernatural power of Jesus Christ.
DeSoto County Sheriff’s Deputy John Mayer enjoys staying on the move.Â
Northpoint Christian School sophomore Jackson Flowers, 15, has been in the Boy Scout program for more than nine years and is on track to earn more than 40 Eagle Palm Merit Badges.
A man serving time in a DeSoto County armed robbery case was found dead Wednesday morning at the state corrections facility he was being held at.Â
Historians call the Korean Conflict _ which itself is a term that should be recast in the history books — "America's Forgotten War."
For about two years, little three-year-old John Hobbs has been in a fight for his life, battling something called Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma.
The sound of "Taps" echoed among the tall pines standing guard at the small rural cemetery off Highway 304, known as the Goodrum Cemetery, where veterans lie under monuments of granite and stone.
School youngsters have begun their summer vacations with lots of plans and likely lots of things they want to buy over the next couple of months.
In the midst of all sorts of commencement exercises and graduations that take place at this time of year, another graduation event has taken place in DeSoto County.
The Art Society has added some much needed color to the performing arts hallway at Center Hill High School.
Lee Ashcraft walks among the long rows of graves at historic New Bethlehem Cemetery in Nesbit and points to each one as if addressing an old, long-lost friend.
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks with Jeffrey Fowler during a recent campaign stop in Southaven. Hyde-Smith, the former State Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, was appointed by Gov. Phil Bryant to fill the remaining term of retiring Sen. Thad Cochran. She is running to be ele…
