Hernando News

What if a tornado like the one that hit Oklahoma struck here? DeSoto County's Emergency Management Agency is asking that question this week.

When the rapper Tim Dog died in February from complications arising from diabetes, that might have been the end of his story.

With their hands full, people from all over Mississippi showed up at the Landers Center in Southaven to drop off items that will be taken to the tornado victims in Moore, Oklahoma.

For ds_afair story for weekend or Monday. KC Johns, one of the musical performers lined up for Hernando's A'Fair festival.

DeSoto County plans to team with Olive Branch on the $600,000 replacement of an old timber-supported bridge on State Line Road over Johns Creek, east of Miss.

Hernando will get ready for its close-up as aldermen approved a two-year deal with a Rochester, N.Y., firm to make promotional videos of the city at no cost to taxpayers.

May 6, 2013 - Delkin Jones , Joyce Newlon and Melissa Jones, family members of slain Sara Dabney Jones, embrace following a hearing in Panola County for two-time felon James Allen Whitten, Jr.

Officials from Shamrock Plan Flooring, a division of J.T. Shannon Lumber, announced today the company is expanding its presence in north Mississippi by locating manufacturing operations in the 62,900-square-foot facility formerly occupied by Stylecraft Lamps in Hernando, Miss., in DeSoto County.

Millie Croft, of Southaven, joins hands with Rev. Bartholomew Orr during an observation of today's National Day of Prayer at Southaven City Hall board room.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has appointed Circuit Judge Robert Helfrich of Hattiesburg to the State Drug Courts Advisory Committee.

Leon Martin of Horn Lake helps arrange food items donated to the Heartland Hands Food Pantry on State Line Road in Southaven.

Signaling their desire for a new direction, Hernando County teachers this week voted out two-term Hernando Classroom Teachers Association president Joe Vitalo in favor of a longtime teacher with previous experience leading the union.

DeSoto's 911 Emergency Communications District commission approved larger-than-usual monthly expenses - some $304,893 - but it was welcome, with the bulk signaling final payment for a long-desired new recorder system for dispatchers.