Macon News

Temp: 82.0 F Heat Index: 88 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Here is a summary of some of the severe weather reports from Sunday afternoon's thunderstorms.

Tupelo has 35,000 people. In this year's Democratic municipal primary, 33 absentee ballots were tallied.

Whether a case of voter fraud or a side effect of poor voter turnout, state and local election officials are concerned about the number of absentee ballots cast in Columbus during the city's May 5 primary elections.

The following cases were processed during the current term of the 16th Circuit Court in Lowndes County: Richard Foss, of 30154 Seymore Road in Nettleton, pleaded guilty to one count of perjury.

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann renewed his call for ballot reform Thursday, citing unusually high numbers of absentee ballots cast in some Mississippi primary elections.

Multiple sclerosis or MS is a debilitating disease that disrupts the information that travels from the the brain to the rest of the body.

In the race for the Ward 4 alderman seat, incumbent Richard Corey is running for re-election on the Democratic ticket and will face Republican challengers Nick Papas or John Michael VanHorn in the general election on June 2. But Papas and VanHorn must first square off Tuesday in the Republican primary to determine who will face Corey.

Old Dominion School will play a full schedule of eight-man football during the 2009 season.

Noxubee County this week received an 'economic boost' from the opening of a large wood products company, according to Brian Wilson, executive director of the Noxubee Economic and Community Development Alliance.

Officials say Macon Treating Company is a $6 million investment that has brought thirty jobs to Noxubee County.

The Noxubee Alliance and Thomasson Company will celebrate Noxubee County's newest industry with a ribbon cutting and grand opening Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Macon Treating Co.

Mississippi came perilously close to executing Kennedy Brewer of Macon in connection with the grisly 1992 rape and murder of his former girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.

Northeast area Mission Mississippi groups Call the group coordinator for specifics about meetings, events: - Amory: Curtis French, 646-0236. - Corinth: Bobby Capps, 424-2091; bcapps@crosswind.ms. - Macon: Richard Malone, 361-1458; rich@lakeforestranch.com. - Okolona: Rev.

Bobbie Massie wasn't the only big-name recruit at Ole Miss' practice on Saturday.

Willie King's contributions to the blues are widely appreciated. Through his art, this son of rural poverty transcended the boundaries of race and class.

Legislation to create a task force to determine the impact immigration has on Mississippi's persistent poverty may not survive a Tuesday deadline.

Cathy Fagan is understandably tired. She spent most of Thursday traveling to Macon, then to DeKalb and finally to Troop H of the Mississippi Highway Patrol in Meridian trying to gather as much of Bob Skelding's ...

The New Hampshire man, who was involved in a horrific crash last week on a Mississippi highway when a tractor-trailer hit his horse-drawn wagon, is recovering, according to media reports.

A local man and his wife were pronounced dead Friday afternoon after an apparent murder-suicide at their home on Walnut Street.

By SHELLEY TERRY - Staff Writer - sterry@starbeacon.com Star Beacon A New Hampshire man who drove a team of horses pulling a homemade wagon down Route 20 in late October, was struck by a tractor-trailer on a ...