Desoto County News

A body found in a lake in Horn Lake, Mississippi on Sat., June 27 is believed to be a missing man from the area, officers said.

Chris Van Tuyl / vantuyl@desotoappeal.comThe Commercial Appeal When the phone rings and Trey Manning answers, there's bound to be some curiosity about that bird in the sky.

A Hernando man who disappeared last Tuesday night drowned, an autopsy today determined.

Two DeSoto County cities have been approved for federal funding aimed at enhancing law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

John Grisham's legal pad was blank and his knees like putty as he approached the judge's bench.

A body believed to be that of missing Hernando man Robert Hatley was pulled from a lake Saturday morning in Horn Lake.

A Hernando family is trying to keep their hopes up that they will find 38-year-old Robert Hatley.

After nine months and consideration of 10 potential new jail sites across the county, DeSoto County Supervisors have accepted a committee's recommendation that first consideration be given to adding on to the existing jail site in Hernando.

A $250 million planned-unit development that includes 64 acres for handicapped children and their families and a separate phase for upscale private homes will be presented to the DeSoto County Planning Commission next month.

Grading and earthwork has begun on about 27 acres south of the DeSoto County Civic Center in Southaven where will be located the future exhibition and agricultural grounds of the Mid-South Fair.

Officials say Southaven Director of Public Utilities Chris Hadaway was found dead in his backyard swimming pool, the victim of an apparent accidental drowning.

A Mississippi man was being treated Wednesday at a Memphis hospital after being shot in an alleged crime spree in which he's accused of killing one person, kidnapping another, robbing a grocery store and injuring a sheriff's deputy.

A Mississippi man was being treated Wednesday at a Memphis hospital after he was shot during a 45-minute crime spree in which he's accused of killing one person, kidnapping another, robbing a grocery store and injuring a sheriff's deputy.

The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday dismissed claims by a Hernando truck driver that his guilty plea to fondling a 7-year-old girl was not voluntary.

Officials say equipment malfunction is to blame for the failure of emergency warning sirens to sound as a tornado approached Olive Branch late Friday afternoon.

MEMPHIS, TN a ' MLGW officials say it will take at least a week to restore power to the more than 130,000 people sitting in the dark.

One suspect was caught near the Holiday Inn Express a short time later and a second suspect was arrested by Germantown police.

Jackson-based contractor Fish & Fisher has been awarded nearly $1.3 million by an arbitration panel for work it did at the Toyota plant in Blue Springs.

OLIVE BRACH, MS a ' Olive Branch police say a 19 year-old was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head inside a home.

Memphis-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is not giving up on plans to build a hospital in Olive Branch.