Olive Branch News

A 23-year-old substitute teacher at Lake Cormorant High School has been released from jail after posting bond on charges of sexual battery involving two 16-year-old female students.

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - A 2-year-old in north Mississippi has done something few toddlers can: He helped his mother give birth to his brother.

Alliance Healthcare System of Holly Springs will oppose granting a certificate of need to Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare to build a hospital in Olive Branch.

Tupelo officials have approved the sale of liquor on Sundays, while Olive Branch, another north Mississippi city, voted to extend hours for alcohol sales at restaurants and bars.

The long fight to win state approval for a hospital in Olive Branch has taken another step forward.

When Bobbye Favazza went into labor, 2-year-old Jeremiha Taylor didn't miss a beat, grabbing a towel and catching baby Kamron after Mom pushed.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's plan to put a hospital in Olive Branch has received a favorable analysis from the Mississippi State Department of Health in the second go-around. The reversal is the result of Mississippi changing the criteria by which it awards certificates of need for hospitals.

Four players from Mississippi, including two from the Jackson area, have signed scholarship papers to play baseball at Ole Miss, the school announced today.

The show, drawing about 175 entries, included everything from antique, custom and classic vintage models to muscle cars and street rods.

People who shop and work in the Camp Creek Shopping center are on high alert. Police say 9 pm Wednesday a man dressed in all black clothing with a handkerchief over his face barged this Little Cesar's during business hours holding three employees at gun point.

Olive Branch police continued Thursday to search for clues to the identity of a man who used two guns to rob a pizzeria of cash.

Are you missing a lock box? If so, Olive Branch Police want to hear from you. Someone found a lock box at the intersection of Highway 302 Bypass and Old Goodman Road on September 26, 2009.

The Fine Arts Institute of Mississippi lost its bid for a bingo license renewal last week, but its Boxcar bingo hall in Olive Branch can continue to operate while an appeal to the state Gaming Commission is under way.

A local anti-tobacco coalition hopes free sandwiches will give smokers that little extra incentive next week to quit, if only for a day.

Nine of 13 students taken by DeSoto Central teacher Megan Morgan for tryouts were selected for the Delta State University Honor Choir.

Drug Enforcement Agents have seized 1,500 pounds of marijuana concealed in an 18-wheeler in an Olive Branch neighborhood.

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Federal agents confiscated more than a thousand pounds of marijuana meant for distribution in the Mid-South. The stash worth about a million dollars was found this morning in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

DeSoto County supervisors on Wednesday approved adding two voting precincts, one in Olive Branch and one in Horn Lake, beginning with elections next spring.

Olive Branch elected officials voted Tuesday night to lift a ban on sales of fireworks but left alone a ban on firing them inside the city.

More convenience or more congestion? That's a question Olive Branch residents are asking about a road expansion project.