Tunica County News

JIM ROUT Position: Chief Operating Officer, General Manager Company: Mid-South Fair Basics: Rout is overseeing the fair's relocation to a 150-acre site in Tunica County.

Did you know that Tunica County has been home to more than one state champion tree? Did you know there even were such things as champion trees? The Mississippi Champion Tree Program was started in 1972 by Bill ...

The 12th Annual Tunica County People's Choice contest, sponsored by The Tunica Times, has completed its first phase, where readers nominate their picks for Person or Business of the Year in 80 categories.

Are you running on fumes in your vehicle as well as your bank account? Don't feel left out-the rising cost of fuel is affecting the American way of life in dramatic fashion nationwide, as citizens, businesses, ...

Major Harold Harris and the Tunica County Sheriff's Department set up several checkpoints on county roadways last week, as Sheriff K.C. Hamp steps up efforts to help make Tunica County roadways safer for ...

In an effort to resolve a two month long battle, the Tunica County Board of Supervisors again agreed to draft a letter to an area utility.

Officials at the former Tunica Institute of Learning have hired Don Coker of North Fulton, MS to take the reins at Tunica's local private school.

Tunica County Supervisor James Dunn, Robert Hall, Oscar Price, and a large group of residents of Tunica's Hambrick Subdivision asked for assistance from the Tunica County Sheriff's Department during a protest ...

On Wednesday, June 11, a Tunica County jury found 36-year old Terry Lee Madden guilty of murdering his former girlfriend and her new love interest.

Tunica County residents spotted a black bear a few weeks ago. She must be headed North because she's been spotted again, this time in Horn Lake, Mississippi.

One of the perks of a small town is when bad things happen, good people come to rescue.

The Tunica County Board of Education voted unanimously last Wednesday night to accept the plan of improvement for Rosa Fort High School and to submit the plan to the state board for its approval.

Bobby E. Williams was elected mayor soon after the first riverboat casino berthed at a Mississippi River landing near his struggling town of 1,200 in 1992.

The Memphis City Councilwoman has a court date in DeSoto County on Thursday. Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Memphis City Councilwoman Janis Fullilove is back on the job.

Authorities are working hard to unravel a mystery, after a discovery in a cotton field near McKinney Lake Bayou.

DeSoto YAHOO! In brief: Skeletal remains found in Tunica soybean field Friday, June 13, 2008 Tunica County authorities believe skeletal remains found in a soybean field Thursday may be a local woman missing ...

Tunica County Sheriff's Office officials say human bones were found on Old Moon Landing Road, one mile west of Old Highway 61.

A farmer in Tunica County found a human skull Thursday in his field off Old Mhoonlanding Road not far from the Sheriff's Department.

The body of a woman was discovered this afternoon in Tunica County near Old Highway 61 and Old Moon Landing Road.

The lawmakers, representing more than a third of the Mississippi Legislature, will mix state business with pleasures like cruising on the Tunica Queen, golfing at Cherokee Valley and hobnobbing with giant ...