Tupelo News

The Birmingham-based hospital system announced in news release Tuesday morning that Parrott will replace departing head Shane Spees , who is returning home to Tupelo, Miss.

District 1 Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn approved Sherman's annexation plan today after the third public hearing.

Back in April, we told you about the dismantling of some of the old Krystal building on South Gloster Street next to McAlister's .

City Council President Nettie Davis will ride through town in a horse-drawn carriage on Tuesday, when she serves as grand marshal of the 2013 Reed's Tupelo Christmas Parade.

BRUCE, Miss.-- Bruce Mayor Rudy Pope says he and the board of aldermen moved to outlaw most smoking in town for a number of reasons.

"They've been doing this walk since the year 900. Popes have done it. Kings have done it," said Anita Bryan, 68, of Tupelo.

Icy conditions have been reported in Benton, Prentiss, Lafayette, Pontotoc and Lee counties, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation and local law enforcement.

Berthay, who lives in Saltillo, insists he was never called upon to make any disciplinary decision about then-trooper Christopher Hughes before Berthay retired in June 2010.

Buy at photos.djournal.com Amanda and Scott Burden share their story of how they came to adopt their daughter McKenna at a monthly question and answer session held by New Beginnings for parents considering adoption.

Downtown will be filled again with the smell of smoked meat with the grand opening of Earnest B's Barbecue on Tuesday.

In his ode to Nelson Mandela, the beloved and revered South African president who died Thursday, President Barack Obama said Mandela "achieved more than could be expected of any man.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol reports one death in a wreck Thursday morning about 12 miles east of Grenada on Highway 8. Highway Patrol officials identified the fatality as .

Conventional wisdom is often a good thing, or at least harmless. For instance, even if chicken soup doesn't help your cold and research shows it probably does help it won't hurt you.

Former Tupelo pharmacist Jim Bain will plead guilty to one unspecified federal count on Dec. 16, a new U.S. District Court document shows.

Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton will leave today for a whirlwind trip to North Carolina to try to convince a group of softball tournament teams and organizers to hold events in the city.

"I had a GPS, which they left behind, but they took my iPod," said Karen Brenton, who lives in the South Thomas Street area of Tupelo.

Latosha Isby, 27, of Tupelo, was charged Tuesday afternoon with the murder of Eric Isby, 24, who died of a gunshot wound early Tuesday afternoon.

Last week my family spent Thanksgiving in a cabin at Tishomingo State Park. It'd been a dream of mine for quite a while, and this year we finally made the commitment.

Pat Hamilton was born and raised in Michigan and then lived in Wisconsin for another 23 years before finally making her way to the South in the late 1980s.

Sherman Mayor Ben Logan filled the role of expert witness in municipal law, government and planning during today's Lee County Chancery Court hearing related to doubling the size of the town of 650 residents through annexation.