Tupelo News

Senate Bill 2975 says Cooper would be eligible for $8 million during fiscal year that starts July 1, followed by $6 million in each of the next two years.

WTVA in Tupelo reports that authorities are searching for 2-year-old Malia Harris of Columbus.

GREENVILLE, Miss. -- The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered Silver Airways to remain in Meridian, Hattiesburg and Tupelo until a replacement airline is found.

Tupelo's plan for a proposed police headquarters achieved dual goals of costing taxpayers $10 million or less and likely meeting city needs for two decades.

It include a handful of old and new ideas to improve declining neighborhoods, increase home ownership and potentially remove structures - including apartment complexes - no longer compatible with zoning laws.

Citizens can try to convince the city to build a new street in Tupelo by simply filling out an online survey as community input is sought for short- and long-range transportation plans.

TVA designated 13 locations as Valley Sustainable Communities last year and says 13 more are about to begin the review process.

What began at approximately noon Friday with a robbery and assault of a woman at a home in Alabama ended in an arrest Saturday night following a high speed chase in Tupelo.

April 22-25. ARTS PANEL - Mississippi Arts Commission grant panel meets to evaluate applications from individual artists and arts organizations.

Two years ago, Malinda Wells and her husband purchased a home in Tupelo, Mississippi, to live in during their retirement years, but the joy of homeownership vanished when the house became a nightmare.

The restaurant opened in Saltillo six years ago and has since added three more locations - one in Booneville and two in Tupelo .

Len Blanton of Tupelo, chief financial officer for Nesco Electrical Distributors, must have seemed like a good fit when former Gov. Haley Barbour appointed him to the state College Savings Plan of Mississippi Board of Directors.

TUPELO -- For three days starting Friday, the Tupelo Ballroom Dance Club will go all-Elvis.

Grace Robinson Floyd, 89 years old, of Tupelo, died Saturday, April 19, 2014, at Fern Brooke Personal Care Home, Houston, Miss.

James Robert "Jim" Patterson, 83, died Thursday, April 17, 2014, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo.

The Army wants to move all AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the National Guard to active units.

I offer this repeat of an earlier Easter column in the hope that it may have some application today.

Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green said he woke his wife up and she was able to exit the home but he was not.

The Diversified Auctions warehouse in Clinton is stocked and according to the man that runs the show, Adam Pollock, they will sell just about anything.

When my wife and I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman play a gung-ho tornado chaser in "Twister," we said, "It's Brett Duke."