Hernando News

HERNANDO, Miss. - A 33-year-old Olive Branch woman has been charged with kidnapping her 3-year-old daughter following a custody hearing.

Police in Hernando, MS want to know if you recognize a truck used to steal a $4000 trailer.

Oxford native Angela McGlowan, a Fox News analyst and author, will be the keynote speaker at separate TEA party rallies in Tupelo and Hernando on Saturday.

After nine months and consideration of 10 potential new jail sites across the county, DeSoto County Supervisors have accepted a committee's recommendation that first consideration be given to adding on to the existing jail site in Hernando.

Authorities searching Saturday for a missing Hernando man discovered a body in an unnamed lake on a ranch formerly owned by Elvis Presley.

The search for a Hernando man who disappeared Tuesday night was turned over to the DeSoto County Search and Rescue Squad Friday morning.

HERNANDO, MS a ' Hernando police say one person is dead and another was airlifted to The MED after a car plowed into a road construction site.

John Grisham's legal pad was blank and his knees like putty as he approached the judge's bench.

John Grisham returns to the DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando, Miss., where he tried cases for 10 years.

House and Senate negotiators drew closer Monday to compromising on a state budget as the calendar continues counting down the 15 days to a new budget year with Mississippi's total state spending still in question.

Mississippi University for Women President Claudia Limbert will have the final say in what MUW's new name could be.

Three years after the passage of legislation intended to slow diploma mills and unapproved schools in Mississippi, officials say the system appears to be improving.

TUPELO, Miss. a ' H.M. Williams Construction Inc. officials donated a construction trailer to Goodwill Industries to assist in the organizationa TMs economic and community expansion efforts.

On May 15, a Coldwater business owner who was found guilty in Municipal Court of assaulting one of her clients won her appeal.

Authorities say Bessie Lou Phillips was so mad her brother was sentenced to life in prison for scamming an elderly woman she followed the victim and rammed her car.

Mississippi school administrators are increasingly frustrated because lawmakers can't agree on a state budget for the year that begins July 1. Until the state spending plan is complete, local school boards can't finish deciding how to allocate money for everything from teacher contracts to extracurricular activities.

When the economy caused a slowdown in business for archaeologist Mary Evelyn Starr of Sledge, she decided to return to college at Northwest Mississippi Community College.

Hernando residents will soon have a new option for television service. Contingent on final approval by City Atty.

While state lawmakers are wrangling over how to plug a $90 million gap in the Medicaid budget, the Mississippi Hospital Association says a proposed hospital tax is not the solution.

What they were complaining about was a 50-cent per pack increase in the state cigarette excise tax that goes into effect today.