Stanton News

Jeff Ware , Douglass; Johnny Collins, Central; Alonzo Bolden, Hamilton; Ricky Meadows, Ridgeway; Terry Moore, Treadwell; Nathan Cole, Westwood and Stan Weaver, Ridgeway.

Dwight Creasy, 51, has been missing from the Stanton area for four weeks. COVINGTON a ' Deputies with the Tipton County Sheriff's Office are searching for a Stanton man missing since early October.

Authorities found a Mississippi man they wanted to talk to about the death of a 50-year-old McNairy County woman.

Dwight Glenn Creasy has been missing since October 4, 2009. Tipton County Sheriff's Office deputies are asking for help finding him.

Connected Tennessee recently was recognized for making a difference in the lives of technologically underserved Tennesseans.

A proposal by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation could change how local governments meet a 20 percent reduction rate in solid waste going to landfills and include increased penalties for not meeting the standards.

The spiritual and musical energy Monday night at the FedExForum pulled heaven and earth just a bit closer together.

After nearly three years of fighting to obtain the land needed to create a Haywood County industrial megasite, county Mayor Franklin Smith can start collecting the deeds.

After two hours of testimony by proponents and opponents of the massive project, the State Building Commission late this afternoon approved the $40 million purchase of 3,836 acres of land in southwestern Haywood County for a West Tennessee industrial "megasite." State and local officials hope to use the site between Interstate 40 and U.S. 70, south ...

The State Building Commission has scheduled a public hearing in Nashville for Sept.

The State Building Commission delayed today a request by the Bredesen administration to approve $40.3 million for land acquisition and development for the proposed Haywood County industrial "megasite" because economic development officials could not identify precisely what acreage they wanted to purchase.

As the Tennessee state House and Senate's prime sponsors of legislation since 2007 to implement and develop a West Tennessee Regional Megasite Authority, we are extremely disappointed in the uninformed and potentially damaging comments recently made by East Tennessee congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp that the West ...

More than $700,000 in federal funding will help pay for four economic development projects in Haywood County.

State and local officials expect to see progress soon on a solar farm that'll be the first development at the Haywood County megasite.

Local history buffs won't want to miss A Day of History at The Cotton Museum on June 6, at The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange, located at the corner of Union and Front Streets in downtown Memphis.

A possible $1 billion investment. The creation of between 900 and 2,000 direct jobs, along with another estimated 9,000 indirect jobs within five years of completion.

Searchers have found the body of a swimmer who went under in the Hatchie River. Haywood County Sheriff Melvin Bond said the body of 50-year-old Ricky Chandler of Stanton was found late Tuesday morning several hundred yards downstream from where he disappeared Saturday.

Haywood County authorities continue to search for a man they believe drowned in the Hatchie River on Saturday afternoon.

First Baptist Church, 2000 S. 2nd St., Milan, will be having a Flamingo Run Ride for A Cure benefiting The American Cancer Society Relay for Life today.