Neshoba County News

The Mississippi Department of Transportation will detour traffic at the intersection of Highway 19 and Highway 492 in Neshoba County, starting Monday.

The FBI is seeking to find family members of 33 people slain during the civil rights movement.

Patsy Cline isn't the only old-time Grand Ole Opry star who will take the stage at the Saenger Theatre this week.

Rats run at night, doing their dirty work in the dark. They fear the light - for when people see them in the light, they clean out the rat nest.

Temp: 62.0 F Wind Chill: 60 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Font Size: A Neshoba County jury is deliberating for a second time the fate of a man charged with murder.

Description: 80 - 100 Acres w/ half in mature virgin hardwood. Has 2 live creeks with mutiple wildlife.......deer..ducks...squirrel....turkeys.........racoons. This property is located in Neshoba County off rd 127 on the south side.

Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.

Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.

It all started with a few tip offs. From there it went to a search warrant. After the Neshoba County Sheriff's Department and the Philadelphia Police Department executed the search warrant, Donnie Adkins, the Neshoba County Sheriff, said they discovered truth behind those tips.

Edgar Ray Killen long has proclaimed his innocence in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, saying he spent the night at a funeral home with the family of a girl who died.

Nearly a quarter century after U.S. Sen. Jim Eastland's death, Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen still talks about the many jobs he did for the veteran lawmaker.

Temp: 63.0 F Wind Chill: 64 F The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics says it has charged a father and son and three others in the Stallo community of Noxapater in Winston County, ending a months-long drug investigation.

Larry Ellis was nearing the end of two decades behind bars at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility when on Oct.

The Mississippi Department Of Transportation officially named a part of Highway 16 in Leake County Friday as the Van T. Barefoot Medal Of Honor Highway.

The Past Is Never Dead By Harry MacLean Hardcover, 304 pages Dutton Juvenile Basic Civitas Books: $25.95 Read An Excerpt The ghosts of Mississippi die hard.

Stan Tiner, executive editor of The Sun Herald, will receive the University of Mississippi's highest journalism award.

A reception Thursday honors the ongoing career of Tulane University barber Tom Davis Sunday, September 20, 2009 Sheila Stroup When Tom Davis opened his barber shop at Tulane University in September 1959, the stream of young men coming to get their hair cut was a lot to keep up with.

The majority of Mississippi road projects funded by the federal stimulus bill will be completed by the spring, a state transportation official says.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians was included in the will of Mary Katharine Loyacono McCravey, of Forest, to receive an original oil painting by P. Sanders McNeal.

It didn't take long for the caustic letters and comments to start coming in last week after Sen.