Tupelo News

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.

With the finalization of Renasant Bank's merger with M&F Bank, the last six of nine planned branch closures will be completed by Monday.

Newly opened Murphy Express on the corner of Eisenhower Drive and C.T. Switzer Drive dropped its price to $2.76 a gallon for regular unleaded fuel, the lowest in the state Tuesday, and several surrounding stores soon followed suit.

Longtime Tupelo educator Sherry Davis received unanimous confirmation from the City Council today to fill an unexpired term on the school board.

A Tupelo man died Tuesday afternoon around 3 p.m. at the North Mississippi Medical Center from a gunshot wound sustained early this morning in a family dispute.

TUPELO -- The family of pilot David Duncan, who died in a 2011 when a twin engine Cessna 310 crashed at the Tupelo airport, has settled its lawsuit with the city aviation authority.

JACKSON -- A man charged with sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday on a new charge.

Each of the seven volunteer fire departments in Lee County has agreed to relinquish taxes from residents included in the 2012 Tupelo annexation.

"In a lot of ways, going to jail can be a good thing," said Itawamba Learning Center volunteer Pat Thorn.