Alcorn County News

Alcorn County gets into the garbage collection business on Wednesday. Supervisors voted in March to terminate the county's contract with Waste Management.

Five years after Mississippi came out from under a federal court order to bring more racial equality to the Department of Public Safety, two black troopers say they still see discrimination.

Most every Saturday night, Randy Seaver, of Genea-Musings hosts some genealogy night FUN! I am usually not at home or occupied with other things, but tonight I am going to join in the FUN! His question to blog about is 'What event or person inspired you to start your genelaogy research?' After you blog, you submit it to Randy's page.

A Franklin County sheriff's deputy has been arrested. Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing says 38-year-old Bryan A. Emfinger of Meadville was charged with computerized luring of a person under 18 for sexual purposes.

Authorities discovered a meth lab in Corinth and arrested three people. The Alcorn County Narcotics Unit, assisted by Corinth police, arrested 24-year-old Jessica Hope Cheatwood, 33-year-old Anthony Wayne Stanley and 41-year-old Theresa Ann Kovac, all of Corinth.

A 51-year-old Corinth woman who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $150,000 from her employer is due to be sentenced April 28.

The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued tornado warning for... eastern Alcorn county in northeast Mississippi... northern Tishomingo county in northeast Mississippi... southern Hardin county in southwest Tennessee... southeastern Mcnairy county in southwest Tennessee... until 1230 pm cdt At 11:48 a.m. national weather service doppler ...

Alcorn County school officials are considering a restructuring plan that could lead to closure of the Rienzi and Glendale elementary schools.

Officials say taxpayers could find themselves with a major case of sticker shock when renewing car tags later this year if the state legislature fails to take action to replenish the state's tag credit fund.

BY ERROL CASTENS Daily Journal Oxford Bureau Garden fever, a common malady prompted by warm spring days, prompts people to irrational behaviors.

An Alcorn County supervisor in this week's meeting sought to correct information presented by the Wenasoga group that opposes a Forrest School Road rubbish site.

BY LENA MITCHELL Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH - On Monday evening during a third public hearing, Alcorn County supervisors again heard impassioned pleas from Wenasoga community residents that the idea ...

A jury took only 30 minutes to acquit a Mississippi Highway Patrol master sergeant of charges that he fondled a youth in a Starkville hotel room.

BY LENA MITCHELL Daily Journal Corinth Bureau A house in the Kendrick community of Alcorn County just east of Corinth was the latest scene of a methamphetamine lab bust in what has become a regular occurrence ...

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal OXFORD - You would have thought disgraced and disbarred attorney Timothy Balducci could have gotten at least one sympathetic letter to U.S. District Senior Judge Neal Biggers ...

The state of Mississippi and its education system has not been spared from a troubled economy.

The state Department of Education said 14 districts will be in the red when Gov.

By Lena Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH - Alcorn County supervisors have requested records to confirm that an appropriate amount of the proceeds from bingo operations at Union Volunteer Fire ...

DESOTO COUNTY - Plans to construct a $20 million justice complex have been placed on the back burner, with DeSoto County supervisors citing reduced jail inmate populations and the spiraling economy as major ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal for Perry Mask of his conviction in Alcorn County in the 2004 killing of Charles Anthony Bascombe.