Grenada News

After its first month of offering citizens the opportunity to get a discount on prescription drugs, the City of Laurel reports that its drug card program is working well.

Bill and Gail Champion of Madison used to walk into their home and find the living room furniture rearranged.

Formers Teardrops bassist Nick Holt, the brother of Chicago blues legend Magic Slim , died in Lincoln, Nebraska on Monday, June 22, 2009 from brain cancer.

The "A Different Me Tour" - knocked off course by damaging winds and a power outage that left the DeSoto Civic Center without power on Friday - finally arrived on Monday night.

The owner of the Nelson Mills Railroad has announced that the recent decision by CN Railroad to sell its Canton-to-Jackson Grenada line to a company that specializes in operating short line railroads IN NO WAY involves the ownership or operation of his rail line.

Local teens are learning how to make their voices heard through the power of hip hop.

A newsprint mill in Grenada won't resume production in June as previously announced.

By JOEL?McNEECE Calhoun City Board of Aldermen raised alderman salaries from $200 per month to $300, the first increase in nine years,A at their regular meeting last night at city hall.

The driver of a car that caused a tractor-trailer to plow into a vehicle Saturday, killing a 6-year-old Mississippi girl, has pleaded not guilty in Southaven City Court.

CN today announced the completion of agreements to sell three Mississippi line segments to Grenada Railway LLC and Natchez Railway LLC both non-carrier affiliates of V&S Railway and A&K Railroad Materials.

A newsprint mill in Grenada will shut down for a month from May 11 to June 11. General Manager Wade Taylor says the plant was temporarily shut down in April and reopened Friday to fill 10 days of orders.

GRENADA, Miss. - A newsprint mill in Grenada will shut down for a month beginning May 11.

Lt. Robert Sanders of Derma, Capt. Jack Britton of Tupelo, and 1st Sgt. Joey Jones of Bruce, are preparing to lead the 858th Horizontal Construction Company from Calhoun City to Iraq.

Kristen Hines Baker/For the SDN Esther Neil of Clinton was one of more than 2,000 Mississippi State University students who were candidates for degrees during Saturdaya s spring commencement ceremonies at Humphrey Coliseum.

People who fish Lake Washington regularly swear by its crappie production, calling it as good a slab producer as there is in Mississippi.

Randy Poss is leaving Grenada to become superintendent for the Winona School District.

A federal jury in Jackson is set to begin deliberations at approximately 12:50 p.m. today in the murder-for-hire conspiracy trial of a federal inmate and another man.

Closing arguments are scheduled Monday in the trial of two men accused of a prison plot to hire a Detroit hit man to kill the Grenada County district attorney.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a multimillion dollar verdict against Franklin Corp., which was sued by workers who alleged they were injured when the furniture manufacturer switched to a new glue.

AbitibiBowater Inc., which operates a newsprint plant in Grenada, Miss., has filed for bankruptcy court protection after deciding there was no other way it could deal with its debt of more than $6 billion.