Sumner News

January 19 may be in the new year, but but Spoon is not slowing down before their release for new album Transference .

We've talked a bit about Spoon's anticipated seventh album Transference , the band's followup to 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga : You've seen the 11-song tracklist, heard some of its sounds via earlier live and later studio takes , and may have watched a teaser .

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Holidays will arrive on December 5 Historic Como will ring in the holiday season with a oeChristmas in Como: A Musical Medley 2009.a This fifth annual event, set for Saturday, December 5, beginning at 3 p.m., promises more free entertainment, both amateur and professional, than ever before.

Dist. Atty. Gerald Chatham placed a heavy cotton gin fan on exhibit in the courtroom on Sept.

Three defendants charged with shoplifting in Batesville stores came before Judge Bill McKenzie during Batesville Municipal Court Wednesday.

The Emmett Till Traveling Exhibit is on display at the DeSoto County Museum in Hernando through Nov.

Jennifer Williams was named assistant principal at Sumner Middle School. She has teaching and administrative experience at the secondary level, most recently in the Federal Way School District.

In this photo taken on Friday Aug. 28, 2009, an assortment of armored personnel carriers are part of a military memorabilia collection owned by county attorney John Whitten III in Sumner, Miss.

Throw in an armored personnel carrier and a racially charged past, and it's no surprise federal investigators are checking it out.

In the Mississippi Delta, nothing spreads faster than a rumor that a white mob chased black thieves through a cotton field.

In this photo taken on Friday Aug. 28, 2009, an assortment of armored personnel carriers are part of a military memorabilia collection owned by county attorney John Whitten III in Sumner, Miss.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says the U.S. Justice Department is investigating an incident in the Mississippi Delta in which he was told a mostly white group used weapons and 'vigilante' techniques to search for a black burglary suspect.

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson has officially requested that the U.S. attorney general to investigate an incident in which residents of Sumner conducted a search for a burglary suspect.

The FBI says it's looking into the circumstances surrounding a burglary arrest in the Mississippi Delta during which residents reportedly took it upon themselves to search for the suspect.

Kelly Daniels/SDN Former Mayor Dan Camp looks forward to retiring a oeto quiet history in the gardena at his Cotton District home.