Shannon News

Greenville authorities are looking for an escaped inmate this morning. Officials said Washington County Community Work Center inmate Shannon Norwood escaped around 1 a.m. Thursday.

An Okolona man faces a murder charge stemming from a shooting in southwest Lee County.

SHANNON - An Okolona man faces a murder charge stemming from a shooting in southwest Lee County.

Family members of two slain state troopers are asking the public to help keep the killers in prison.

A Marion County man and a Mississippi woman are in custody for posing as police officers after they were accused of abducting the man's estranged wife from a motel where she worked.

The open-air festival season kicks off this weekend with events offering the best in regional cuisine and music.

BY GINNY MILLER Daily Journal SHANNON - Not everyone's an athlete, but if you can walk, Pat Carnathan thinks you can win.

A Tupelo teenager threw herself in front of a truck to end her life Wednesday, and I can't help but wonder why.

BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO - A pedestrian apparently took her own life Wednesday by jumping in front of an 18-wheeler on Highway 45 at the Verona exit, according to Verona Police Chief J.B. Long.

The Lee County-based Coalition4Change will unveil a monument honoring the civil rights movement at 2 p.m. March 21 on the northeast corner of the county Courthouse lawn.

Susanne Lindsey's selection as Parent of the Year for 2009 for the Lee County Public School District underscores the singular importance of parental volunteerism in shaping and supporting their children's ...

BY GINNY MILLER Daily Journal SALTILLO - Susanne Lindsey's priorities are her children, second-grader Shelby and kindergartner Jacob.

BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO - An investigation is under way into a police officer's shooting of a shoplifting suspect at an East Tupelo motel.

BY ERROL CASTENS Daily Journal Oxford Bureau OXFORD - Douglas Hodgkin was convicted of capital murder after University of Mississippi graduate student Jean Elizabeth Gillies was bound, beaten, raped, sodomized, ...

By M. Scott Morris Daily Journal The GumTree Museum of Art soon will bulge with the work of talented, young artists.

BY GINNY MILLER Daily Journal TUPELO - It took more than 20 rounds, but Lee County got a new spelling bee champion Monday.

A woman is charged with the kidnapping of her 6-year-old biological son. Shannon Police Chief Desiree Kershner said the boy was taken from Shannon Primary School on Thursday afternoon by Melissa Hulsey, whose ...

BY M. SCOTT MORRIS Daily Journal TUPELO - You may have seen Steven Keeley walking along Gloster or Main streets.

The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol is investigating the 2:48 p.m. accident today on U.S. 45, south of Shannon, that killed two people and injured three.

DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO - With so many negative story lines dominating 2008, many Northeast Mississippians say they plan to think happy thoughts for 2009.