Dumas News

"We were seeing some higher leaf grades early in harvest of the 2012 cotton crop," says Keith Maloney, area director for the USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark., "and some gins had to make adjustments in their ginning to accommodate it.

Tippah County's new Mississippi State University extension agent is young in years and experience, but a long family history with the extension service should serve him well.

In October of 1962, James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss caused deadly rioting to engulf our campus, the repercussions of which we still endure today.

A storm knocked out power to many areas of Ripley and Dumas early Sunday evening, according to fragmentary reports.