Panola County supervisors have asked their road manager and engineer to make trips to Itawamba County to get a firsthand look at a paving option being used there with reported success. The cost of ...

The unexpected and untimely death of Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, along with the significant physical ailments of 84-year-old former GOP Senate Majority Leader U.S. Sen.

Perfection finally showed up at my house last week. I ate it over the kitchen sink. It took 64 years to find. That hardly seems fair, but peaches don’t operate on fairness. They’re ready when they’re ...

Former Batesville Police Officer Johnny Sneed has retired after more than 26 years in law enforcement, including the past 22 years with the Oxford Police Department. The Oxford Board of Aldermen ...

A Batesville woman was one of 100 people appointed to a state board by Gov. Tate Reeves recently. Kerri P. McKnatt, who serves as the Children Systems of Care Project Director at Communicare in ...

There is a cartoon penned by Bill Mauldin just after WWII. The last cartoon panel in his compilation of war drawings shows Willie and Joe as civilians walking into a hospital room where one of their ...

I walked this morning. It was later than I had planned, but I walked for 31 minutes. It’s almost the middle of the hot season in Hades, or rather, the middle of July in Mississippi. Like I said, I ...

Did you know that 4,000 years ago people lived without rules? With no restrictions, imagine the chaos, imagine the confusion…imagine the fun. That changed when Babylon’s King Hammurabi pulled out his ...

Loren W. Wicks, 87, died Saturday, July 11, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. Visitation will be held Saturday, July 18, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Wells Funeral Home. Burial will be in ...

The Mississippi Department of Transportation’s $13.6 million project to mill and overlay 14 miles of U.S. 278/Highway 6 in Panola County is nearing completion. Mainline paving has been completed, with ...

William Joseph “Bill” Jenkins, age 85, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2026 at the North Mississippi Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Mississippi. Funeral services for Bill were held Wednesday, July ...

George Reaves, age 80, passed away Sunday, July 5, 2026 at his home in Duck Hill, Mississippi. Funeral services for George was held on Friday, July 10, in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of ...