Carthage News

AAA said it expected most people nationwide to stay home over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, and most locals weren't any different.

My dear departed friend Gale Denley said years ago of his first visit to the Neshoba County Fair: 'It's a lot like what I always imagined Hell would be - it's hot, it's dusty and all my friends are there.' Gale has graduated to the Fair Eternal, but the political speaking he loved so much will continue in the fair's grand tradition.

The Mississippi Supreme Court declined Thursday to hear an appeal from Justin Brent Turner, who was convicted of two counts of DUI manslaughter related to a 2006 crash.

On Tuesday, federal prosecutors presented more details in a state-wide methamphetamine distribution ring as two of the remaining 18 suspects facing federal charges appeared in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg.

Eddie Rutherford of Kosciusko, was installed president of the Mississippi Pharmacists Association at the organization's 138th Annual Annual Meeting held in Sandestin, FL June 7-10. Serving with Rutherford are Kimsey Cooper of Carthage, president elect; Waymon Tigrett of Brandon, treasurer; and Kris Harrell of Pearl, Executive Committee member at ...

The sometimes dangerous currents of Mississippi's rivers aren't always evident. Already this year, 20 people have died in fresh water drownings in Mississippi, including five in the Pearl River, officials said.

Officials in Leake County have identified the victim of Sunday's drowning in the Pearl River as 17-year-old Frederick Robby Jones of Brandon.

Catching catfish by hand, which many folks consider too crazy to try, goes by many names.

The Noxubee Alliance recently honored two local businesses. The group named Thomasson Co./East Mississippi Pole as Industry of the Year and recognized Wilford and Mary Patterson of Patterson's Professional Car Care as Entrepreneurs of the Year.

J.H. Sasser of Carthage is 86, a World War II veteran and former member of the Army's 7th Infantry that fought in the stinging cold of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska.

A Greenwood man was arrested for embezzlement Thursday at Kangaroo Crossing on Veterans Memorial Drive.

Breaking and entering doesn't pay in Attala County. Sheriff William Lee said a property owned by Dean Rone in the Ethel area was broken into on Sunday, April 26, and three were charged with burglary.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for much of central and northern Mississippi and extreme northwestern Alabama until 1 pm.

Sheriff's office makes drug bust On April 22 at approximately 5:20 p.m., the Winston County Sheriff's office received a tip of an active meth lab in Winston County.

Supes discuss various topics The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw Count Board of Supervisors held a meeting April 13 where they discussed various topics and accepted a bid for the Pearson Road bridge replacement project.

An Alabama man was charged with the robbery of Miller's Grocery on Highway 14 at the intersection Highway 19 Wednesday, April 15.

NEVER BORROW SORROW FROM TOMORROW: Deal only with the present, never step into tomorrow, For God asks us just to trust Him And to never borrow sorrow - For the future is not ours to know And it may never be, So let us live and our best And give it lavishly - For to meet tomorrow's troubles Before they are even ours, Is to anticipate the Savior, And ...

Mississippi House members argued angrily about the meaning of Christian compassion Tuesday as they considered a bill that would expand judges' ability to wipe some felony convictions off people's records.

Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash in Leake County over the weekend. Bradley Gibson and Lindsey Hill, both of Starkville, Miss., died in the Sunday afternoon crash.

A crash in Leake County claims the lives of two Mississippi State University Students- one of them the son of Terry High School baseball coach Jerry Gibson.