Southaven News

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

FOX13 News has learned through multiple sources that a large scale investigation into the trafficking of illegal steroids is taking place in Desoto County.

In the following press release Lawrence J. Laurenzi, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced that Paula Sharice Nelson a/k/a Paula Mason, a/k/a Paula Kimmons, 30, of Southaven, Mississippi, pled guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion before U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson.

It's hard to sell a book of short stories. But not if you're John Grisham. Author John Grisham is shown in New York on Tuesday, Nov.

Katie Bouchillon , Body Walk Program assistant director, and Shelly McLaughlin, P.E. instructor at Greenbrook Elementary, discuss the day's schedule for Monday's Body Walk at the "mouth" of the walk.

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.

Two men have been arrested in connection with several car burglaries in Southaven, MS.

HERNANDO, Miss. - A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 20 years after a jury found him guilty of beating to death a cousin and setting fire to her Southaven home to cover his tracks.

Saturday 24 Oct 2009 Mississippi RiverKings Defeat Texas Brahmas 3-2 - CHL Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 09:48AM Southaven, MS --- Three shootout goals brought the Mississippi RiverKings their second win of the season on Friday, October 23rd in Southaven, a 3-2 victory over the Texas Brahmas.

It was a rather noteworthy daily double for DeSoto County Schools this past Saturday at the Mississippi High School Activities Association/Mississippi Bandmasters Association state marching band championships.

Population growth in DeSoto County is raising questions about whether the county has ample representation in the Mississippi State House.

It was a long night for Jordan Capers, "We were up about 12:58 last night and heard all the commotion going on and I woke him and told him about the swat being outside." His family lives across the street from where the Desoto County sheriff says 31year-old Alvin Walker's girlfriend called police.

Student ambassadors Martavious Mims and Andilyn Cole give new student Thomas Wheaton a walking tour to aid his transition to Hope Sullivan Elementary School.

The M. R. Davis Public Library in Southaven will host the American Recovery and Reinvestment Workshop Oct.

A 17-year-old remains in intensive care at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center after he was beaten with a baseball bat during a fight early Sunday in DeSoto County.

A woman was flown to the Regional Medical Center at in Memphis with head injuries Saturday after a two-vehicle crash in Southaven.

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.

The Church Road office building shared by Dr. Bettye Baptist-Wilson and sister Gwendolyn Baptist-Hewlett was recently hit by bullets from apparent vandals.

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

As Southaven police searched Monday for the armed robbers who stole money, cell phones and a SUV from parishioners at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Saturday morning, church members were praying for a spiritual deliverance of the suspects.