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Later at 11:30 AM, a collision occurred near Chicken Nugget on Hwy 16 in Carthage. The vehicles were removed from the roadway with little issue, and no injuries were reported.

The post Minor Collision Tuesday Mo...

Philadelphia High School has named Dicenzo Miller as its new head baseball coach and football offensive coordinator.

A former standout at Weir High School, Miller went on to play running back at Mississippi State, where he rushed for more than 2,200 career yards and 17 touchdowns from 1998-2001.

State Auditor Shad White is applauding the sentencing of the final defendant in a scheme to embezzle almost $400,000 from three school districts, including the one in Leake County.  A St. Louis teacher was given a prison sentence this week, joining former Leake County superintendent Earl Joe Nelson and another former school official who were sentenced earlier.  Whit...

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Veterans Association has been trying to solve a mystery.   How did a tombstone from a veteran’s grave end up in a pile of debris at a dumpsite?

“This was off of James Billie Road in Choctaw, MS…”

Rick Alex, the tribe’s Member Services Division director, says the tombstone bore the name of Van Regis Tubby who died...

JACKSON, Miss.–Former Leake County superintendent of education Earl Joe Nelson, 57, currently of Biloxi, was sentenced to one year and two months in federal prison and ordered to pay back $143,000 in federal grant money after pleading guilty to embezzling the money.

Nelson was part of a trio of conspirators, according to federal prosecutors, who used their positions to...