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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Horn Lake firefighter was severely injured in a motorcycle accident Sunday evening along Interstate 69.
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.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) reminds motorists to stay off Interstate 269 while it is under construction.
Northern District Public Safety Commissioner Brandon Presley has announced the first meeting of the DeSoto County Task Force on improving cellular telephone and high-speed internet service will be held on Thursday, Sept. 6 at 5:30 p.m.
The joy of childhood can be smeared and sullied forever with a simple keystroke on a computer or smartphone, or a strong word and an extra push and shove on the playground. A life can also be lost in suicide.
For nearly four decades of her more than six decades on earth, Ann Richmond has served the public in a variety of ways, from switchboard operator to receiving clerk and in the Chancery Clerk's Office.
The special session of the Mississippi Legislature concluded Wednesday, yielding a total of 4 million for transportation and infrastructure projects in DeSoto County.
It’s been a year of growth for people with developmental disabilities who are involved in three DeSoto County programs.
Rural DeSoto County residents who get their garbage collection through the county and Waste Pro USA will see a slight rate increase in their bills, beginning in October.
The Mississippi State Department of Health reports three new human cases of West Nile virus, bringing the state’s total to 26 so far for 2018.
Members of the Home Builders Association of North Mississippi have presented Hernando-DeSoto Habitat for Humanity President Lee Ashcraft a check for $2,500 to support Habitat for Humanity’s efforts in DeSoto County. Homebuilders joined with the Northwest Mississippi Association of Realtors f…
State Trooper Bobby L. "Bubba" Wells, Jr., is one of eight slain law enforcement officers who is memorialized on the DeSoto County Courthouse lawn.
Now in its second year, an effort to memorialize Ann Brown Ashcraft, a wife, mother and grandmother, as well as a book lover and patron of the arts and history, is helping to provide books to chronically ill children.
A 29 year-old Olive Branch died when his vehicle careened off a rural DeSoto County road and struck a tree, instantly causing the vehicle to explode in flames.
A 29 year-old Olive Branch died when his vehicle careened off a rural DeSoto County road and struck a tree, instantly causing the vehicle to explode in flames.
Cars whiz past a barbed-wire fence at the corner of Swinnea and Star Landing Road where horses and a burro graze on the sparse grass of a weedy pasture.
The race for the District 4 seat on the DeSoto County Schools (DCS) Board of Education became a contested race last week when Jeny Price, a Lake Comorant Middle School and High School parent, filed papers to have her name on the ballot for District 4 board member.
As the late music legend Elvis Presley considered the next step in his career during the late 1960s and needed some time to get away from the limelight, Elvis would head south of Graceland to his Circle G Ranch in Horn Lake.
The Northwest Mississippi Community College's Library on the main campus in Senatobia and also at the DeSoto Center is a world-class resource for students from across the Mid-South.
Candidates whose names will appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot are gearing up their campaigns to run for elected office.
As the start of the 2018-19 school year approaches, a scramble happens each year in stores all over by moms and dads all trying to make sure their youngsters have the tools they need to learn.
DeSoto County, despite having one of the top-performing public school districts in the state of Mississippi, still has students who, for whatever reason, are not reaching their full academic and/or character potential.
DeSoto County will join an interlocal pact with several other counties to obtain high-resolution GIS mapping of the county down to six-inch scale accuracy.
To show appreciation to the DeSoto County School District in the first week of the new school year, First Tennessee Bank provided lunch for about 250 Central Services employees Friday afternoon in Hernando. The meals were purchased at a 20 percent discount from the Olive Branch Chick-fil-A a…
For residents of the City of Hernando living primarily in the Jaybird Road area, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Precautionary Boil-Water Alert for customers who receive their drinking water from their water supply located in DeSoto County.
The DeSoto County School District (DCS) Board of Education has two seats up for election this November and Wednesday was the first day for candidates to file to be placed on the ballot.
Chick-fil-A’s annual Topple the Truck fundraiser for DeSoto County Schools delivered school supplies Monday afternoon to the DCS Central Services office in Hernando. The Chick-fil-A locations in Southaven and Olive Branch have collected items for schools to have access to during the year. A …
Vacation has officially ended for what is expected to be another record number of students in Mississippi’s largest school district as Monday started classes in the DeSoto County School District.
For years, the residents living along flood-prone Holly Springs Road have had to contend with frequent flooding and erosion of the roadway during high-water events.
The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department is welcoming four new deputies who excelled during the 12-week Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer’s Training Academy in Pearl. The group brought back awards ranking them in the top tier of their class. The awards were for firearms training and academic…
All is about ready for the new school year to start on Monday, Aug. 6 in the DeSoto County School District (DCS).
DeSoto County is getting charged up for the Mid-South Area Job Fair in Southaven with a new location this year.
The newly-minted District Governor of Rotary District 6800 is urging members of the Mid-South's largest contingent of Rotarians to become more "engaged" in their communities.
Just as the colors of a rainbow are every bright hue and variation, so are all God's children.
Loss of oxygen in surface water in DeSoto County's lakes, ponds and streams is the most common cause of natural fish kills which are common in hot months like August and September.
The Unknown Child Foundation recently received a donation in the amount of $1,800 from SouthGroup Insurance in the honor and memory of Rex Haynes who passed away in January of 2017. Family, friends and members of the Unknown Child Foundation gathered for the recent check presentation.
The first day of the education year started a little earlier on Friday for about 270 new employees of Mississippi’s largest school district. They were the ones being educated and not doing the educating, however.
Entergy Mississippi President and CEO Haley Fisackerly (second from left) recently presented a $5,000 grant to the DeSoto County Foundation for Excellence In Education for its first annual “Pathways2Possibilities” DeSoto Career Expo. The interactive technical career fair will give some 3,000…