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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ann Maddux White passed away peacefully in her sleep on July 13, 2026, in Memphis. She is survived by her devoted husband of 49 years, Ira Gail White (who was also her high school sweetheart); her ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a special called meeting on Wednesday, July 8, Como Mayor Wes Ehrhardt announced the formation of the Como Public Trust Initiative, a move he said was needed to provide transparency not only to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...