Corinth News

CORINTH - The insurer for a transport company has paid $247,500 for damage to Alcorn County roads in 2011.

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

As many as a dozen young people between 16 and 25 years old will have a chance at summer employment in Corinth through a $35,000 grant to the city from the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Demolition of a building in the Downtown Corinth Historic District that began last month was halted after it was found the owner did not have required permits.

The city of Corinth is getting help in determining whether it needs to redraw local ward lines for the next election.

A Corinth man has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for leaving the scene of a 2011 accident in which a pedestrian was killed.

CORINTH - Building permit activity in the first three months of the year was sharply higher in Corinth.

The Daily Corinthian reports the Corinth School District's softball complex accounted for about two-thirds of the quarter's total of $4.356 million.

The genesis of Mississippi's formal economic development effort as we know it today can be traced to the 1930's when industrialist and mayor of Columbia Hugh L. White convinced Reliance Manufacturing Company to open a facility in Marion County by offering incentives to do so.

Mississippi Highway Patrol Major Rusty Barnes, 48, today was named Director of the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security.

A Corinth man has been arrested on charges of possession and sale of marijuana. The Daily Corinthian reports that Michael Charles Spears, 29, was booked Thursday with sale of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

In late June 2005, then-Republican Gov. Haley Barbour called his third special session of the year - this one to pass an economic development bond package.

Federal officials stand outside the house of Paul Kevin Curtis while searching for evidence in Corinth, Mississippi April 18, 2013.

Residents of Magnolia Drive will soon see fewer black cars with Washington, D.C., license plates and stoic-faced men in black suits lining the street.

A vote by the Corinth city board taken last week, that will leave access to Liddon Lake Road unchanged from U.S. 72 and South Parkway, stands after a special meeting earlier this week to discuss the issue again.

U.S marshals arrested Everett Dutschke , 41, of Tupelo, Mississippi, Saturday morning for mailing letters laced with the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, report Reuters .

Christi McCoy, an attorney for Kevin Curtis, a 45-year-old Elvis impersonator, said Monday that she and another attorney had spoken with authorities about the process to go through to get their client's property repaired or replaced.

Attorneys for a Mississippi man who was briefly charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and others are encouraged after speaking with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office about repairing or replacing the man's house after an intensive search left it uninhabitable.

James E. Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home Tuesday April 23, 2013.

Was it a tiff between an Elvis impersonator and a martial arts instructor in the birthplace of the King that caused headlines around the world? We may find out Monday when a former tae kwon do instructor from Tupelo, Mississippi, appears in court, accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and others.