Lake Cormorant News

DeSoto County school board members Monday approved $5 million in bonds to help finance construction at three schools.

Lake Cormorant Middle/High School students Alona Hemphill , Robert Davis and Meeghan Phillips look over the GPS device and mapping program that they and fellow Maps and Remote Sensing Club members will use to map point addresses, in cooperation with the DeSoto County GIS Department, for the western half of the county.

Porkchop was the center of attention during Thursday's presentation. Students at Lake Cormorant Elementary learned the proper way to take care of pets.

Outside Lake Cormorant Middle and High School dark clouds hover above as area residents discover the news.

FOX13 News has discovered exclusive information about 23 year old Joey Johnson, the man who Desoto County investigators arrested Monday for allegedly having sex with students at Lake Cormorant High School where he worked at a substitute.

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.

Brothers Drake and Jacob Walton both play football for Lake Cormorant High School.

Joey Johnson, who is charged with sexual battery for off-campus incidents with two 16-year-olds, will have a preliminary hearing Friday morning.

23-year-old Joey Johnson faces multiple counts of sexual battery, and is locked up at the DeSoto County Jail on $100,000 bond.

Officials said a 23-year-old substitute teacher working at Lake Cormorant High School has been charged with sexual battery in incidents that occurred off-campus. Deputy Chief Frank Rainey of the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department told the Commercial Appeal that Joey Johnson of Horn Lake was arrested at his home Monday after authorities received a ...

Two teachers are arrested in two weeks for having sex with students and now parents in DeSoto County are demanding answers.

A 23-year-old substitute teacher working at Lake Cormorant High School was charged with sexual battery today in incidents that occurred off-campus, officials said.

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.

Walls Elementary kindergartner Emily Reiners gets her H1N1 shot Tuesday from Debbie Lewers, a registered nurse with the Mississippi Department of Health with help from principal Rebecca Kelley.

The wait is finally over for DeSoto County schools. The district began giving free swine flu shots to students Tuesday-- nearly a month after originally planned.

The Olive Branch Lions Club will hold its "Woody Barnes II Lions Club Pancake Breakfast" Saturday from 7 to 10 a.m. at the Olive Branch Shrine Building, 9747 Goodman Road.

Eudora Presbyterian Church, 1836 Miss. 301 S., is having its annual homecoming/memorial service today at 11 a.m. A covered dish lunch will follow.

5 p.m. -- Hernando at New Hope; Senatobia at Center Hill. Two games have been rescheduled for Monday, with Tupelo visiting Horn Lake and Lake Cormorant hosting Saltillo.

Jamie Young, a five-year cancer survivor and one of three band instructors at Lake Cormorant Middle/High School, leads Mallory Morgan , Cory McClure, Taylor Buie and Gabriel Salazar during a practice session.

Suzanne Phillips, seventh- and eighth-grade pre-algebra teacher and mathematics chair at Lake Cormorant Middle School, discusses a finished bubble map the class filled in describing a test.