Ecru News

Postal employee Steven Joslyn faces up to five years in prison if he's convicted of stealing $20 from the mail.

Searchers who've been looking for a missing man since last Wednesday found a body in the Yocona River around 4 p.m. Monday.

Residents in Pontotoc and Ecru will go to the polls to cast votes for mayor and boards of aldermen in Tuesday's municipal primary election.

Searchers have been working throughout the day, both in the Yocona River and along its banks, two or three miles above Enid Lake, to find the 19-year-old Taylor man who disappeared after leaving his job in Ecru on Monday night.

MSU's Matthew Berk named Goldwater Scholar STARKVILLE - Mississippi State University junior Matthew S. Berk is among this year's selections for a 2013 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award for students in the science, mathematics and engineering fields.