Tupelo News

TUPELO, Miss. a ' Lane Home Furnishings, which has operated an off-site showroom for years during the Tupelo Furniture Market , has opted to move to the market's main showroom building for next month's show.

Federal authorities want to take $1.89 million and an airplane allegedly used in a scheme to sell contraband cigarettes.

Mississippi's gasoline tax is too low and the state should halt the diversion of fuel tax money into other programs amid the struggle to fund improvements to aging highways and bridges, the state's top transportation official says.

Responding to input from retailers, exhibitors and reps, the Tupelo Furniture Market has designated Aug.

Jesse Jackson says the death of Michael Jackson should bring more attention to the triumphs of his family than to the stranger public moments of the Pop King's life.

Toyota's decision last December to postpone indefinitely opening a $1.3 billion assembly plant in Blue Springs has affected plans for the suppliers scheduled to serve the plant and the communities expecting new jobs and added tax revenue.

A state auction of more than 855,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes could happen as early as September, State Auditor Stacey Pickering said.

Two well-known south Mississippi authors, Carolyn Haines and Anne McKee, will sign their works at Main Street Books, downtown Hattiesburg.

Clay Foster has been named publisher of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal newspaper in Tupelo.

TUPELO, Miss. a ' Construction is under way on two bridges on State Highway 6 to carry traffic over Willie Moore Road in Tupelo, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

It was rise and shine Wednesday morning in Tupelo, Mississippi. Rick Love went over the scheduled activities at the regular morning driver's meeting.

The testimony of a same-sex couple at an annual gathering of United Methodists in Jackson has kindled a controversy over the church's acceptance of homosexuals.

TUPELO, Miss. a ' Hospitality industry veterans Phil Hoffman and Bill Cotter have launched an upholstered furniture company for the hospitality industry and is looking at adding production for a line of residential seating.

A retirement party in Rogersa honor is being held from 2 to 4 p.m. today at Building B at the Bost Extension Center on the MSU campus.

How do you feel when someone in your line of work makes more money than you? You feel a little put out, right? How would you feel if that person was dead? I imagine you would feel even worse! Such is the case in the field of entertainment and other well-known personages.

City and county lines don't matter, and neither do state lines when it comes to regional economic development.

Sometimes after the kids are tucked in, Randy and I will pour bowls of sugary cereal, stretch out on the couch and watch "South Park." It's devious and delightful.

Managers of Elvis Presley's Graceland are looking for people with personal stories to tell about the king of rock 'n' roll -- people like John "Bull" Bramlett who played touch football with Presley in the 1950s.

Tupelo has 35,000 people. In this year's Democratic municipal primary, 33 absentee ballots were tallied.

Toyota's idled Tupelo, Mississippi plant may not produce Prius hybrid after all when it opens up sometime in the near future, Automotive News reports.