Tate County News

Thomas Hollister Singleton wants a car. Specifically, a Dodge Challenger, black.

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.

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 robbery suspect was shot by police Tuesday evening after a high-speed chase and shootout that crossed two counties.

A probable cause hearing was held in Batesville Municipal Court Wednesday for a defendant who alledgedly committed armed robbery at Shell Gas Garden.

A retired state Department of Education employee who now heads a nonprofit is the choice to be interim state superintendent if Hanks Bound is hired as higher education commissioner.

On May 15, a Coldwater business owner who was found guilty in Municipal Court of assaulting one of her clients won her appeal.

After working on the video, Rowell put out an order to be on the lookout for Dollar General burglaries.

Shea Staskowski/SDN Stone talks with Starkville School District Board of Trustees members Keith Coble, left, and Eddie Myles after Tuesday nighta s board meeting, during which Supt.

Joseph Stone moved from Quad County Alternative School director to principal of Armstrong Middle School when the Starkville school board unanimously voted him in Tuesday night.

Work is scheduled to begin on May on replacement of bridges on Mississippi Highway 4 in Tate and Marshall counties.

Lima was sentenced to life in prison without parole for capital murder. Prosecutors say Daniel Houck, a hospice nurse and businessman, was found beaten to death in his home in March 2006.

The Tate County School District has a new interim conservator. The Mississippi Board of Education approved this past week the appointment of James Malone, who will soon retire from Nettleton public schools in Lee County.

There are a lot of things that go into making good schools, but school quality depends largely on the community.

"We sent an ambulance, but the man refused to be transported, saying he had mostly been shook up," he said.

Chambliss, who founded Chambliss Builders, died in 2001 at the age of 69. He was a five-term member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.

The State Board of Education will vote today on contracts for interim conservators for three troubled school districts.

Citing mismanagement and bad planning, the state Department of Education is moving toward seizing the financially strapped Indianola and Tate County school districts.

Lawmakers have sent the governor a bill that provides an extra $3 million to the Mississippi Department of Education to cover the takeover of public school districts this fiscal year.

A combination of money and tax relief in a federal stimulus plan is estimated to provide Mississippi with an overall economic impact of $5.12 billion, state legislative analysts said Thursday.