Tupelo News

Sixty years ago this month, 11 Tupelo leaders incorporated the Community Development Foundation.

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal Mike Maynard of Tupelo is missing the anticipated hoopla of his first Republican National Convention, but he understands the gathering's focus has changed to concern about ...

Tupelo recycling stats Curbside collection has raised the city's annual output of recyclable materials: - Pre-curbside recycling yield: 10 tons/year - Post-curbside recycling yield: 924 tons/year SOURCE: City ...

BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO The interchange at U.S. 78 and McCullough Boulevard, notorious for frequent automobile accidents, is getting a change in traffic flow.

By Emily Le Coz Daily Journal TUPELO - Lee County supervisors could soon approve a plan to double - if not triple - the size of the city-county jail after getting a first glimpse at the facility's expansion ...

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal Sitting within an arm's length of a former president and former First Lady, Tupeloan Mike Maynard on Tuesday night said he'd finally got into the swing of things at the ...

Special Weather Statement Calhoun (Mississippi) SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 329 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 MSZ022-022100- CALHOUN MS- 329 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... WESTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIG CREEK AT 329 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. THIS STORM IS SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAK ROTATION. PEOPLE IN CALHOUN COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT.

BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS Daily Journal TUPELO - For Chris Wiginton, United Blood Services is the place where everybody knows his name.

With construction "on schedule" and proceeding on 42 new elementary classrooms in the Tupelo Public Schools, preliminary planning for the implementation of the district's "Future Excellence Plan" is underway.

Lee County Courthouse monuments and memorials - Fountain - donated by the Tupelo Garden Club to replace a previous fountain, given approximately eight years ago - Tree - planted by the Local Camp Woodmen of the ...

By Ginna Parsons Daily Journal TUPELO - Teresa Edmondson is all about balance. Balance in her home, balance in her work, balance in her food, balance in her life.

BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO - The quest for a navy blue uniform took Thomas B. Crump from the cotton fields of Tupelo all the way to the shores of Honolulu.

A Tupelo man was arrested by the state Attorney General's Office on accusations he owes more than $12,000 in child support.

PHOTO: Thomas Wells Tupelo firemen come off the roof of Boondocks Grill in downtown Tupelo following an electrical that started at the buildings meter box on Wednesday night.

Retro Television Network has entered into an agreement with New Age Media to launch RTN on WQMY Wilkes Barre, WPXT Portland , WTLH Tallahassee, WYPN Gainesville and a new station to launch in Columbus/Tupelo, ...

BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS Daily Journal TUPELO - The Tupelo Public School District is due $232,290 in taxes that weren't collected by the city during the district's 2007-2008 fiscal year.

The Tupelo-Lee Humane Society has several Labradors and Lab Mixes at the shelter now and is in need of Purina Puppy Chow donations.

BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - Some two dozen residents at a city-sponsored meeting Monday plotted the future of a more environmentally friendly Tupelo, one that includes bike paths and green spaces and ...

BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS Daily Journal Teens and adults need to roll up their sleeves for a shot to protect infants from a potentially fatal disease, doctors say.

BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - When the parents of a hit-and-run victim complained that former Assistant Police Chief Robert Hall released the driver in 2006, Hall was demoted before he eventually ...