Grenada News

A second suspect in last week's robbery of the Dollar General Store in Duck Hill has surrendered.

By LEANN McCOY Staff Writer Bids for the painting of a water tank and emergency radios were among some of the topics discussed at the special-called Grenada City Council meeting Monday.

It was June 1974, and I had taken a respite from the summer session at the University of Mississippi Law School to come home for the weekend.

Law officers used their vehicles to block the entrance to the store Tuesday while they questioned customers and employees after a robbery at what has become known as "The Duck Hill Mall." By LEANN McCOY Staff Writer Local law enforcement were in the third day of a search Thursday for a Grenada man accused of robbing a store in Duck Hill.

By LEANN McCOY Staff Writer Grenada Police Chief James Fox will be retiring after 32 years in local law enforcement.

By LEANN McCOY Staff Writer The U.S. Postal Service has backed off a plan to close several area post offices, and proposing to keep them open, with shorter operating hours.

By LEANN McCOY Staff Writer Will Grenada's drivers be forced to go to Greenwood or Batesville to renew their licenses? That is one question the Grenada County Board of Supervisors is trying to answer with a resounding, "no," after a brief discussion about the future of the keeping the Mississippi Highway Patrol licensing office in Grenada during a ... (more)

Southern Remedy program host Dr. Rick deShazo talks with Ashton Jenkins about her experience as a teenage mother.

The city doesn't owe the Internal Revenue Service any penalities when it comes to 2008 employee W-2 forms, according to a letter received Monday at the city clerk's office.

If approved by the federal government, Grenada County will have a new senator in Jackson in the next four-year legislative cycle, if not before.

Grenada police are seeking information in the Monday night shooting death of a man on Poplar Street.

The eight universities could see an average 14 percent increase over two years for in-state students, with additional increases for non-resident students.

Editor's Note: Due to deadlines for our Tuesday publication, the election results will not be available in Tuesday's newspaper.

Holcomb Lions Club members Betty Jo Morrison, Sandra Strickland; Frances Cummins, life-long Holcomb resident Margaret Griffin, Margaret Corder; Wyomman Reeves, Lions Club president James Cummins and Wayne Corder have been working to prepare for the Doodlebug Festival.

Cochran says funds will go the state and to airports in Cleveland, Bay St. Louis, Newton, Okolona, Clarksdale, Magee, Quitman, McComb, Lexington, Pittsboro, Natchez, Lumberton, Louisville, Hollandale, Madison, Wiggins, Hattiesburg, Philadelphia, Ripley, Water Valley and Grenada.

The Mississippi House redistricting plan, which could leave Grenada County with four representatives, has gone to the Senate for approval.