Tupelo News

With help from a Tulsa, Okla., company, the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau has a new slogan: "Center of Positivity."

"Son of God," from the producers of last year's hit miniseries "The Bible," garnered praise from Christian media groups upon its release last week.

Drugs are bad, kids. Ask Jesse Pinkman . a Man who killed cyclist dies in prison - Wendell Blount was serving a 10-year sentence for his manslaughter conviction, but he won't get to finish it.

Buy at photos.djournal.com Gastroentereologists like Dr. Steve Amann of Tupelo are encouraging people to get screened for colorectal cancer.

Gholston has led the nonprofit hospice program since January 2005. The west Tupelo facility accepted its first patient in November 2005 and has since served more than 2,100 patients, as well as an additional 700 through its home hospice program that began in 2010.

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During the Community Development Foundation's Wake Up Tupelo and Lee County breakfast on Friday, South Carolina economic developer Hal Johnson suggested that Greenville's recent past could be Northeast Mississippi's future.

The 2014 Ride with the King Motorcycle Ride & Rally will take place the same day as the Don't Be Cruel BBQ Duel in downtown Tupelo.

Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, second from left, receives a hug from friend and colleague Rep. Brian Aldridge, R-Tupelo, as Rep. Nick Bain, D-Corinth, right, looks on.

On Saturday, March 8, the Back Street Opry in the historic Lamar Theatre in Vernon, Ala., will celebrate its 25th anniversery with a free Grand Ole Opry-style stage show.

In an effort to invigorate what tourism officials said was a diluted and stale brand, the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau on Thursday introduced a new logo and a new theme - the "Center of Positivity."

Willie B. Topp, 20, of Tupelo, has been charged with armed robbery. The incident occurred at NT's Gas Station on McCullough Boulevard on Wednesday.

The Tupelo, Miss.-based bank has tapped industry veteran Patti Reid to lead its financing efforts throughout Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi.

All of the school's 135 educators are participating in a four-month book study on Ruby Payne's "Under-Resourced Learners: 8 strategies to Boost Student Achievement."

After a decade or so of discussions for a new Tupelo Police Department facility, waiting six more months is doable.

"It would take 90 hours of scouting for southwestern corn borer egg masses to get the same precision you can get with just four pheromone traps," says Fred Musser, associate professor of entomology and plant pathology at Mississippi State University.

The program created by the Healthy Tupelo task force in 2011 was highlighted in a research brief put out last month by the National League of Cities Sustainable Cities Institute.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday countered the House-passed $4,250 teacher pay raise spread out over four years by proposing a $1,500 pay raise starting July 1, followed by another $1,000 raise the following year.

The first two in a group of nine North Mississippians charged in a regional cocaine conspiracy were sentenced in federal court Thursday.

The advantage of long-term bond financing for major projects empowers issuing entities like Mississippi to take advantage of low interest paybacks while building needed facilities and infrastructure like highways and buildings on college campuses.