Saltillo News

A Saltillo High School teacher has been charged with sexual battery for an alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student.

A suspect in the assault and robbery of an 81-year-old man is being held on a $1 million bond.

Authorities say a Tupelo family's pit bull attacked and 18-month-old girl, who required dozens of stitches to her face.

SALTILLO, Miss. - Police say someone sprayed a 12-year-old boy's face with some type of chemical and set him on fire, leaving the boy with first- and second-degree burns to his face, neck and right arm.

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series of stories dealing with drunk driving enforcement locally.

Christin N. Hardin and James C. Kennedy were married on July 4, 2009 in Tupelo. Hardin is the daughter of Diana and Ben Hardin of Tupelo.

An early morning fire has destroyed St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Saltillo.

Lafayette County investigator Jay Hill said anything is possible in the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of an Ole Miss freshman woman last Monday night, including a case of mistaken identity.

The court-appointed receiver who took over companies owned by troubled Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to recover more than $40 million paid to dozens of former Stanford financial advisers, including a Saltillo man.