Aberdeen News Archives

“There's a tremendous demand, primarily because there's economic development”

Local consumers, managers receive brunt of steadily increasing prices Aubra Whitten Issue date: 11/13/07 Section: News Media Credit: Bud Sorey Junior mechanical engineering major Ian McLaughlin fuels his truck ... via The Reflector

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal ABERDEEN - Defeated sheriff's candidate Cecil Cantrell wants $190,000 from the Monroe County Board of Supervisors. via Djournal.com

“The average citizen, as I travel throughout the state and country, would want a more civil, educated, drug-free person coming back out”

Documents filed in federal court this week detail both the terrible problems facing Mississippi State Penitentiary's supermax Unit 32 and how much progress has been made since the facility's bloody and troubled ... via The Clarion-Ledger

“I learned how to do makeup on real women in Macy's. It's sort of me coming back and coming full circle to do makeup on real women.”

Celebrity makeup artist Billy Brasfield will be in NeMiss making over anyone who buys his $249 brush collection. via Djournal.com

Dispatch Staff Report Area banks and the U.S. Postal Service will be closed Monday for the Veterans Day holiday. via Commercial Dispatch

Mississippi cities that have passed no-smoking ordinances: Aberdeen, Amory, Greenville, Greenwood, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Kosciusko, Mantachie, Mayersville, McComb, Metcalfe, Oxford, Ridgeland, Starkville, ... via The South Mississippi Sun Herald

“I think I'm fortunate with all the jobs and economic development that have occurred. That was the big reason that people came out and voted for me”

Rep. Gary Chism of Columbus won his bid Tuesday for a third term, with Lowndes County voters giving the Republican strong support in a House district where more voters are in Democratic challenger J.C. Patton's ... via Commercial Dispatch

A Friday afternoon accident on Highway 278 near Amory claimed the lives of two elderly Monroe County women. via Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

“Scripture is clear about honoring the body”

BY GALEN HOLLEY Daily Journal On an overcast April morning, 12 men carried a simple wooden coffin out the massive church doors and into St. via Djournal.com