Tallahatchie County News

The federal stimulus package has helped keep some contractors in business, and will give towns in the Mississippi Delta a public service theya TMve gone without for decades: paved streets.

Batesville police last Thursday had in custody within hours a suspect in an armed robbery at the Check Advance store in Eaglecrest Shopping Center.

When P.W. 'Primus' Watson, then 25, came to Camp Shelby on March 8, 1946, in order to be discharged from the U.S. Army, he missed the last bus to his home in Monticello .

The federal stimulus package has helped keep some contractors in business, and will give towns in the Mississippi Delta a public service they've gone without for decades: paved streets.

The owner of the Nelson Mills Railroad has announced that the recent decision by CN Railroad to sell its Canton-to-Jackson Grenada line to a company that specializes in operating short line railroads IN NO WAY involves the ownership or operation of his rail line.

My Great Grandfather, Thomas Mayfield Rideout disappeared in the early 1900's, probably around 1912.

A state agency estimates that a pesticide waste collection program has saved Mississippi farmers almost $1 million in disposal fees since it began in the mid-1990s. Ronn Killebrew of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality says the program has reduced environmental risks and improved water quality in rural Mississippi.

The woman who was with Morgan Freeman the night of a car crash in Tallahatchie County, Miss., that left both injured insists she was never romantically linked to Freeman and is suing the actor for negligence.

By Patsy R. Brumfield Daily Journal OXFORD - Famed actor Morgan Freeman, who makes his home in Charleston, wasn't "Driving Miss Daisy" when he lost control of the car he was driving near midnight in August 2008 ...

When you think of earthquakes, west coast states like California usually come to mind.

Ten years ago, Morgan Freeman offered to pay for an integrated prom for a high school in Charleston, Miss., where they were still holding separate black and white celebrations.

Stories abound of African-Americans committed to going to the inauguration of Barack Obama, even though many of them are without tickets to the ceremonies or reservations for lodging.

Blues icon B.B. King usually lets his music do his talking but even that failed him during a tour of a new multimillion dollar museum dedicated to his career.