Oakland News

Moore - Holland Terry and Teresa Moore of Batesville announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Madeline Moore, to Bo Randall Holland, son of Doyce and Kay Holland of Starkville.

Members of a tiny church in the rural Mississippi Delta are mourning the loss of their pastor who was found stabbed to death in his own home this past weekend.

Thursdays New Greater Light Baptist Church has mid week services every Thursday at 7 p.m. Bobby Walker is the pastor.

In a time when cotton has been relegated to back seat status for most Mississippi producers, Coley Little Bailey Jr., and his father, Coley, still grow just one crop: cotton.

Brian Hawkins/SDN Main Street in Sturgis was lined with motorcycles of every size, shape and color as far as the eye could see during the Sturgis South All-Bike Motorcycle Rally on Saturday.

Six people were arrested today in response to drug-related Yalobusha County indictments, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director Marshall Fisher said.