Greenville News

Mississippi State University's Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss., includes 4,100 acres, almost a hundred employees and a 30,000-volume library, the latter of which is directed by Rhonda Watson.

GREENVILLE - The next major phase of construction on the E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center is about to begin.

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art will present an Artist Lecture featuring sculptor William Beckwith at 2 p.m. today in the Lower Level Lecture Hall.

Two Arkansas companies have announced a joint venture to locate a rice mill in Greenville that will employ 60 people.

Delta State University's Delta Center for Culture and Learning, through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities "Landmarks in American History and Culture" program, will offer two week-long workshops focusing on the Delta's rich cultural heritage.

Two inmates are no longer facing execution based on separate federal judges' rulings removing them from Mississippi's death row, but the state attorney general will ask that the decisions be reconsidered.

Attorneys for convicted murderer Carla Hughes say the jury may have held it against the former teacher for not testifying in her own defense.

A Memphis businessman linked to a multistate black-market cigarette operation will be in federal court in Greenville on Nov.

Attorney General Jim Hood today announced a statewide initiative to inform Mississippians about the resources available from his office.

Ed Darling, a veteran editor and publisher at newspapers in Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, has announced his retirement as publisher of the Mississippi Business Journal.

Lawyer says job is a good fit for family and her professional future A Moving back to Greenville was a homecoming for Stephanie McVaugh, both in the relocation to her hometown and her acceptance as an associate at Lake Tindall.

Ellen Fairey's play "Graceland" and a tuner called "On the Levee" will round out the 2009-10 season for Lincoln Center's LCT3, devoted to programming new works by emerging legit creatives.

Summertime is the time for summer archeology digs. Here in Mississippi, a couple of major undertakings were aimed at learning more about the mound builders who left our landscape dotted with what we know as Indian Mounds.

Two local Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science students are semifinalists for the 2010 National Merit Scholarship contest.

The 2010 Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame class includes a boxer, two football players, a runner, a tennis player and a race car driver.

Bids for construction of the Washington County Regional Correctional Facility have been accepted.

Detectives with the Ocean Springs Police Department, working together with U.S. Marshalls, apprehended 47-year-old Dwight Cannon on Saturday, October 17, who is charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - Murder charges have been dropped against Jonathan Weaver in the Saturday stabbing of 33-year-old Willie Taylor Jr.

JACKSON, Miss. - Hodding Carter III, former publisher at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, will speak Oct.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - The Mid-Delta Regional Airport reopened its second runway this week after nearly two months of closure for rehabilitation.