Greenville News

A Memphis businessman linked to a multistate black-market cigarette operation will be in federal court in Greenville on Nov.

Attorney General Jim Hood today announced a statewide initiative to inform Mississippians about the resources available from his office.

Ed Darling, a veteran editor and publisher at newspapers in Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, has announced his retirement as publisher of the Mississippi Business Journal.

Lawyer says job is a good fit for family and her professional future A Moving back to Greenville was a homecoming for Stephanie McVaugh, both in the relocation to her hometown and her acceptance as an associate at Lake Tindall.

Ellen Fairey's play "Graceland" and a tuner called "On the Levee" will round out the 2009-10 season for Lincoln Center's LCT3, devoted to programming new works by emerging legit creatives.

Summertime is the time for summer archeology digs. Here in Mississippi, a couple of major undertakings were aimed at learning more about the mound builders who left our landscape dotted with what we know as Indian Mounds.

Two local Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science students are semifinalists for the 2010 National Merit Scholarship contest.

The 2010 Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame class includes a boxer, two football players, a runner, a tennis player and a race car driver.

Bids for construction of the Washington County Regional Correctional Facility have been accepted.

Detectives with the Ocean Springs Police Department, working together with U.S. Marshalls, apprehended 47-year-old Dwight Cannon on Saturday, October 17, who is charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - Murder charges have been dropped against Jonathan Weaver in the Saturday stabbing of 33-year-old Willie Taylor Jr.

JACKSON, Miss. - Hodding Carter III, former publisher at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, will speak Oct.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - The Mid-Delta Regional Airport reopened its second runway this week after nearly two months of closure for rehabilitation.

State Department of Health laboratory tests have shown that Greenville's water supply was not contaminated last month.

PRESIDENT BARACK Obama will visit New Orleans today to survey for himself the progress of recovery from 2005's Hurricane Katrina - but there are apparently no plans for a presidential stop in Mississippi for the same purpose.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - Officials say an Avon woman was killed when two vehicles collided south of Greenville.

GREENVILLE, Miss. - Authorities have identified a woman killed when a tornado touched down in Washington County Friday.

THE TEDDY BEAR and the South Delta go hand in hand. As evidence of that, Rolling Fork will be the site of a national celebration - the eighth annual Great Delta Bear Affair.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says several counties reported property damage Friday as strong thunderstorms swept through the Delta.

VICKSBURG, Miss. - It has been a wild six weeks for Annette Kirklin. Ever since her organization took control of the Over the River Run, the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation's executive director has been busy lining up sponsors and volunteers, securing permits and spreading the word about its new project.