Lee County News

TUPELO a ' Harold Wayne Hunt, 69, of Cullman, Ala., has pleaded guilty before Judge Paul S. Funderburk to one felony count of unauthorized sale of recordings in the Circuit Court of Lee County, according to the Attorney General's Office.

An Arizona man is in the Lee County Detention Center under $25,000 bond as a result of a traffic stop made Thursday in Tupelo led to the discovery of drugs.

Dr. Paul White and the heirs of a former Sanctuary Hospice patient have asked a federal judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the physician.

State lawmakers could discuss legislation during their next session that would give police the ability to distinguish sex offenders by simply looking at their driver's license.

A Saltillo High School teacher has been charged with sexual battery for an alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Police say a Lee County man has been charged with killing another man's dogs during a dispute.

The Mississippi State Department of Health has reported the death of a Lee County resident last week due to complications from the West Nile Virus.

Three more cases of human West Nile virus this week have brought the total cases this year in Mississippi to 37 with three deaths.

LEE COUNTY, Miss. a ' Work began this month on a realignment project on Graham Road in Lee County, according to officials with the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Officials in a second county in north Mississippi have filed arson charges against a volunteer firefighter.

NEW ALBANY, Miss. - A 22-year-old volunteer firefighter remained jailed Monday on one count of capital murder and two counts of arson after a weekend house fire killed an elderly woman in Union County.

Numbers of confirmed and suspected cases of flu have doubled in several school districts in a week's time, but U.S. House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson says Mississippi's health and emergency leaders appear prepared to handle the situation.

Lee County's business incubator will expand thanks to a $2.7 million federal grant.

County employees in the state's retirement system can cast votes beginning Sept.

Tupelo Public School District officials are considering an expansion of drug testing policy.

Tupelo Regional Airport officials say they are going to start using noise cannons to scare Canada geese away from the runways and taxiways.

A Fulton woman will be sentenced Nov. 2 after pleading guilty to two counts of maiming related to a fatal 2008 traffic accident in Tupelo.

Normally when a state institution like a community college needs more space for expansion, the process from conception to completion takes three or four years.

A second person has died in Mississippi from West Nile Virus. The State Department of Health is reporing a death in Forrest County.

Hundreds of schools are heeding the government's call to set up flu-shot clinics this fall, preparing for what could be the most widespread school vaccinations since the days of polio.