Plantersville News

Incumbent Mayor Gloria Holland, 60, will face the former president of the Lee County Chapter of the NAACP, the Rev.

State Rep. Steve Holland has been saying for years that someone should write about his family's political dynasty in northeast Mississippi.

The atmosphere was bittersweet Thursday afternoon at the Lee County School District's annual reception for retiring faculty.

Gov. Phil Bryant, right, standing with West Point Mayor Scott Ross, gives a thumb's up gesture to a delegation of West Point and Clay County business and community leaders that packed the House gallery at the Capitol, in Jackson, Miss., Friday, April 26, 2013 to witness the lawmaker's quick floor action to approve an incentive package that could be ... (more)

A Japanese tire manufacturer should be producing tires in Clay County by 2015, legislators were told this morning as they began a special session to provide incentives for the company.

TUPELO, Miss. -- Of three ricin-laced letters mailed this month to public officials, only one made it into the hands of an intended target, 80-year-old Mississippi judge Sadie Holland.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is calling lawmakers back to the Capitol this Friday for what many hope will be a quick a special session to lure an auto parts maker to the state.