Tippah County News

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER Brandon Presley's stand-tough position about the operations, director elections and finances of Mississippi's electric power cooperatives is a long overdue movement toward more transparency fully in the public interest.

Tippah County Electric Power Association board members will be elected this year for the first time since the utility was created in 1938.

Mississippi has recorded its seventh swine flu-related death, the state Department of Health reported today.

Seven people are now dead from the Swine Flu. The two newest victims are from Jones County.

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. - Enrollment at Blue Mountain College has reached 500 for the first time in the school's 137-year history.

The Mississippi Department of Health has reported the state's fifth swine flu death.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected convicted murderer Judy Wilbanks' argument that she deserved a new trial because her confession was involuntary.

Now more than ever, public officials must do everything within the law to keep greedy hands out of the public till.

A former Tippah County Justice Court clerk repaid $50,000 she embezzled but still owes $258,343.70. A Mississippi Development Authority staffer repaid 21 cents for misplacing equipment.

The decision of the Tippah County Board of Supervisors agreeing in principle to a community college tuition guarantee program for all of the county's high school graduates, beginning in 2010, enriches the opportunity for every qualifying student to achieve their dreams and goals of higher educational attainment.

JACKSON - Five county jails cannot house state inmates until they make some improvements.

A federal judge has dismissed a Ripley man's $2 million lawsuit against Tippah County, the city of Ripley and a law enforcement officers.