Cleveland News

Daniel Pender has been promoted to assistant vice president in consumer lending.

Bond has been denied to 43-year-old Harvey Lewis, who has been charged with capital murder in the slayings of a woman and a child.

The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation will host its annual Region One Young Farmer Summer Leadership Meeting July 9 in Cleveland, Miss., at the Warehouse Restaurant.

Woman and child killed "execution-style" Local, state and federal authorities are searching for a man charged with brutally killing his mother-in-law and four year-old niece in what's being described as 'execution-style' murders.

When and why did you join the military? I joined the military back in 1991. I joined following the foot steps of an uncle who was very instrumental in my life while growing up.

CLEVELAND, Miss. a ' Major construction has begun on Mississippi Highway 8 East in Bolivar and Sunflower counties, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Peoria Police are investigating what is now the fifth homicide in the city this year.

David L. Potter, president of North Georgia College & State University, has been named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Who's Who in Education list.

Terry Johnston, a 48-year-old recent graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, is the first student from the university to receive the James Madison fellowship, which pays up to $24,000 for students to earn their master's degree.

Opening July 11 and on display until September 20, photographer Easton Selby's exhibition Root Work is directly influenced by the spectrum of religious belief systems, mysticism, and magic that creep below the surface of Southern soil.

Samantha Cooper won't need textbooks when she teaches students about the Underground Railroad next year.

Over the last two or three years, seed treatments for soybeans have become a standard practice for many farmers as seed has gotten more expensive, prices for soybeans have risen and more and more farmers move toward earlier planting.

The Cleveland School District has a month to respond to questions from the Department of Justice about compliance with a 1969 desegregation consent decree.

MARTIN Phillips was tonight elected as the new Mayor of Amersham. He was appointed to the post by colleagues on the town council after serving as Deputy Mayor to Martin King for the past two years.

OUTSTANDING achievement was celebrated in Amersham on Sunday with the town's Citizen of the Year awards.

Renewal will extend five-year partnership into third decade Severn Trent Services announces its public-private partnership with the City of Cleveland, Miss., for contract management, operation and maintenance of the City's water and wastewater system has been renewed.

CLEVELAND, Miss. - The economic downturn in Detroit has hit Cleveland, Miss., as Faurecia announced it has begun laying off employees.

CLEVELAND, Miss. -- About 110 people from 38 countries will take the oath of citizenship on the Delta State University Quadrangle on Friday It is the third time a naturalization ceremony has been held on a university campus in north Mississippi in recent months.

AMERSHAM had a spring clean today after more than 100 volunteers took to the streets armed with bin bags and pick-up sticks.

Authorities said counterfeit money is being circulated in Bolivar County. Over the past several weeks, Cleveland police said, multiple fake bills have made an appearance in the county.