Union County News

Severe Thunderstorm Watch in AR: Craighead , Mississippi A nationwide manhunt is underway for a Union County couple accused in the death of one of their children.

Lawyers for a woman sentenced to die for killing her estranged husband during an attempted robbery have filed a 217-page appeal of her capital murder conviction.

Mississippi health officials said Thursday that seven new cases of H1N1 swine flu bring the total number of confirmed cases to 20.

NEW ALBANY, Miss. - Prosecutors say New Albany mayoral candidate Jerry Kennamore will plead guilty to signing his daughter's name as an attesting witness on an absentee ballot.

Steven Ray Kennedy and Clara Diane Lincks pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday, saying they used crack cocaine with Misty 'Paradise' Nelson in the past, strangled her in 2004 and dumped her body in Union County, Miss.

By Errol Castens Daily Journal Oxford Bureau NEW ALBANY - The Union County Master Gardeners invite everyone who has - or wants - a green thumb to the New Albany Home and Garden Show at the Union County Fairgrounds from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The free event will feature garden- and home-related vendors and exhibitions throughout the day.

A Booneville nurse is the fourth employee of a New Albany care center to be charged with fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs, according to the state attorney general's office.

By Galen Holley Daily Journal On Tuesday afternoons, across the street from William Faulkner's grave, the air sings with laughter and the whispering sound of sewing needles and thread.

What police thought was an armed robbery of a Tupelo Dollar General Store last week now looks like something else.

BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS Daily Journal Northeast Mississippi school superintendents tried Wednesday to find a silver lining in a 3.49 percent cut in Mississippi Adequate Education Funds.

BY GALEN HOLLEY Daily Journal TUPELO - Today is the last opportunity to order discount food boxes through area churches.

Wreck at Mile marker 51 in east bound lane at the Union & Benton county line involving three 18 wheelers along with other cars.

Although the Rev. Mildred Board Grubbs retired 25 years ago, her desire to teach and empower others is as strong as ever.

Northeast Mississippi's largely white Appalachian and African-American culture began learning new lessons in internationalism on Feb.

Northeast Mississippi cleared the biggest hurdle in land use planning related to the Toyota-driven automotive era when it realized that a life-changing, sustainable, eco-friendly assembly plant would soon ...

Have you ever handed something valuable to a complete stranger with the promise that person will decide how much your stuff is worth and get back to you? Certainly not! you may answer.

Two nursing home workers have been arrested for crimes involving vulnerable adults, including one nurse accused of pouring after shave on a patient's genitals, Attorney General Jim Hood said Friday.

A Union County couple are free on $450,000 bond pending a March 2 trial on charges stemming from the death of their 2-year-old adopted daughter.