Hernando News

If Luther Dickinson wasn't a whirling-dervish, guitar-player extraordinaire, the frontman for the North Mississippi Allstars would have made a fine geography teacher.

Southaven aldermen this evening will consider final approval of plans to build a restaurant and 9,000-square-foot retail center next to the new Harley-Davidson dealership in Southaven.

Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan is expected to announce her candidacy for Congress when she makes five stops in north Mississippi's 1st District next week.

The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear an appeal from a Hernando truck driver who had argued that his guilty plea to fondling a 7-year-old girl was not voluntary.

The Hernando County schools' Adult Education Department is registering for spring classes.

A spokesperson for the Mississippi Highway Patrol says around 2 a. m. Saturday, a Jackson, Mississippi mother driving her children to visit their father in Chicago lost control of her four-door pickup truck.

State statistics show that Hernando High School, West Hernando Middle School and Fox Chapel Middle School top the list of having the most recorded violent incidents in either fighting, battery or sexual battery categories in the 2008-09 school year.

Sitting beneath a boar's head hanging on the wall of Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson's private office this evening, Gertrude Bridgeforth of Southaven acknowledged, "I am an Obama Mama." Bridgeforth, 86, will be U.S. Rep.

HERNANDO a ' A former Southaven city employee has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement.

HERNANDO, Miss. - When a house fire about 15 years ago destroyed the three medals Jimmy Newton received for rescuing and treating wounded on the battlefield in Vietnam, he thought they were lost forever.

Patrick Dockery receives a congratulatory hug from his mother, Donna, after winning the DeSoto County spelling bee on Saturday.

The blues is the howl of the human animal. It is the deepest musical expression we give to our joys and our sorrows.

The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear an appeal from a Tennessee company rebuffed in its efforts to move 75 skilled nursing home beds from Cleveland to DeSoto County.

The Olive Branch Shrine Club is the site of a benefit today to help Neal Lindsey with costs incurred during his battle with cancer.

The Shepherd's Center of Hernando will meet today at 10 a.m. at Hernando United Methodist Church, 1890 Mt.

To report a water line break, residents may call the city's Action Line, at 960-1111. Jackson residents may be able to drink and cook with tap water without boiling it in a couple of days - if Mississippi Department of Health officials begin testing today.

With every push of a needle and thread, the CoverGirls of DeSoto County are making a difference in the lives of others.

Panola County Arrest Log 01-12-10 The following information was taken from the log book at the David M. Bryan Justice Complex.

NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI a ' The first phase of a project to widen Mississippi Highway 8 in Bolivar and Sunflower counties is on track to be completed this summer.

With temperatures dropping into the single digits and snow in the forecast, Nathan Taylor of Southaven was busy this week splitting wood on Star Landing Road just west of U.S. 51.