Booneville News

BOONEVILLE - Plumrose USA has laid off 100 workers at its meat slicing plant in Booneville, Miss.

BOONEVILLE and FULTON - Northeast Mississippi Community College and Itawamba Community College are raising their tuition fees for the fall semester.

A Corinth man has been arrested after being accused of stabbing a Booneville resident.

For Jay VanWinkle, golf is a way to push back against Alzheimer's Disease which took his wife Beth in 2010.

The May 7 primary election will narrow the field of five candidates who believe they are the best choice for Booneville's leadership as mayor.

"Some people feel farm land prices are too high right now; others say prices will keep steadily going up, but at a slower rate than the past few years," Abbott Myers, chairman of Mississippi Land Bank, said at the organization's annual meeting.

Barbara Jean Henley James, 61, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at her home. She was born Dec.

"Some people feel farm land prices are too high right now; others say prices will keep steadily going up, but at a slower rate than the past few years," Abbott Myers, chairman of Mississippi Land Bank, said at the organization's annual meeting.

Prentiss County officials are awaiting approval of a more than $1.5 million federal loan to renovate an existing county building as a county court and office building.

An apparently troubled Elvis impersonator was accused last week of mailing ricin to U.S. Sen.

OXFORD -- Federal authorities have produced scant evidence linking a Mississippi man to the mailing of ricin-laced letters to the president and a senator, his attorney says.