Iuka News

A body discovered on Bud Price Road in Lowndes County has been identified. According to Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant, Robert Paul Martindale, 55, of Tishomingo County, was found dead when he was pulled from a boat dock along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Saturday afternoon.

Authorities in Lowndes and Tishomingo counties are seeking information on the whereabouts of an Iuka man who hasn't been heard from since early December.

An Iuka man died of apparent smoke inhalation after being brought out of his burning apartment Tuesday night.

The first McDonald's restaurant in Tishomingo County opened in Iuka today. The franchise is one of several in northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama owned by Robert and Jennifer Tomey of Amory, according to the Tishomingo County News.