Hernando News

A 23-year-old substitute teacher at Lake Cormorant High School has been released from jail after posting bond on charges of sexual battery involving two 16-year-old female students.

Haley Barboura TMs most politically sensitive budget proposals are likely to be dead on arrival a ' including a recommendation to merge eight universities into five.

The following is a news release issued by the DeSoto County Sheriffa s Department: DeSoto County Sheriffa s Department investigators have arrested 23 year old Joey Johnson of Horn Lake, Mississippi on child sex charges.

The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors moved one step closer to building a new county jail Monday by approving $45,000 to cover planning and final site analysis.

DeSoto County Sheriff's Department investigators arrested 23-year-old Joey Johnson today.

A married couple from Mississippi face felony charges in connection with the theft of a diamond ring from a local jewelry store.

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A local anti-tobacco coalition hopes free sandwiches will give smokers that little extra incentive next week to quit, if only for a day.

Central High School will soon have its new principal. So, too, will three other Hernando schools.

It's prompted a state investigation and may have resulted in the resignation of two Hernando city employees.

FOX13 News has learned through multiple sources that a large scale investigation into the trafficking of illegal steroids is taking place in Desoto County.

A federal grand jury has returned a 31-count indictment against a Hernando man accused of diverting more than $10 million from his Memphis employer's bank account to purchase jewelry, cars, and real estate, according to the U.S. attorney in the Western District of Tennessee.

State higher education officials say they will form a team to raise funds for a private endowment that benefits Mississippi's three historically black universities.

SENATOBIA a ' First Tennessee Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of First Horizon National Corp., announced that its Senatobia financial center, formerly Peoples Bank, will operate under the name of First Tennessee Bank effective Nov.

Authorities in two DeSoto County cities believe a rash of automobile burglaries will end with the arrests Friday of two suspects for thefts from an unlocked vehicle.

HERNANDO, Miss. - A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 20 years after a jury found him guilty of beating to death a cousin and setting fire to her Southaven home to cover his tracks.

Responses about a potential curbside recycling program for the City of Hernando are beginning to trickle in to City Hall.

The Emmett Till Traveling Exhibit is on display at the DeSoto County Museum in Hernando through Nov.

A rash of 30 automobile burglaries in a Hernando neighborhood has police stumped but stubbornly determined to find the culprits.

Several streets in Hernando will soon receive a fresh coat of asphalt. Chip Johnson Engineer Joe Frank Lauderdale recently did a survey of the city's streets and presented the Board of Aldermen with a list ranking streets in order of those most in need of repair.