Benoit News

Tornadoes have been confirmed from severe storms on Friday in Northern Mississippi.

In the Holmes County School District, 96 percent of the student body receive a free lunch and 3 percent pay a reduced fee.

In Holmes County, where the poverty rate is three times higher than the country's, Patricia Jenkins' children get a free weekday lunch for at least nine months of the year.

Travis Satterfield, a rice and soybean producer from Benoit, Miss., who has long been a leader in a number of Delta and Mississippi agricultural organizations, will serve as the 74th president of the Delta Council in 2009-10. Satterfield, who is probably best known for his work with the Mississippi Rice Council and with the Delta Council and ...

A JURY IN BOLIVAR COUNTY ACQUITTED A BENOIT MAN OF MURDER CHARGES TUESDAY AFTERNOON.