Olive Branch News

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.

Olive Branch elected officials are scheduled to hold a public hearing Tuesday on whether to accept money to widen Pleasant Hill Road.

A Ridgeland charity won't be able to benefit from a bingo parlor it operates in Olive Branch anymore.

Mother Nature has won out over DeSoto County prep football once again. The steady rain has forced the cancellation of seven games scheduled for Friday night.

SENATOBIA a ' First Tennessee Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of First Horizon National Corp., announced that its Senatobia financial center, formerly Peoples Bank, will operate under the name of First Tennessee Bank effective Nov.

The DeSoto County Regional Utility Authority gave approval Wednesday to add a mixing pit to its upgrades at the Ross Road wastewater treatment facility in Olive Branch.

Olive Branch police say the body of 24 year old Daniel Tyler Albritton has been found in a wooded area off College Road in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

A mother in Mississippi has taken her local school district to court after her son was expelled from high school for what the school says was "gang activity" but what the mother and her supporters at the ACLU say was nothing more than singing and moving to the beat.

What is a gang sign? That's what the American Civil Liberties Union wants to know.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi filed a lawsuit today charging DeSoto County Schools, the City of Olive Branch and Olive Branch law enforcement officials with retaliation for expelling a ninth-grade student who filed an earlier lawsuit over a school bus incident.

The twisted propellers are a just a hint of what happened. Charles Welshans saw the plane approaching the Olive Branch Airport.

A 24-year-old Byhalia man remained in jail Thursday after being arrested and accused of trying to set his ex-girlfriend's Olive Branch home on fire.

Gould's Day Spa & Salon has opened its first location in Mississippi at 5070 Goodman Road in the Wedgewood Commons Center in Olive Branch.

Church members who saw the harsher side of humanity during a weekend robbery are now getting a taste of man's better side.

Paul Martin recently was promoted to supervisor in the technology department in the Jackson office.