Walls News

DeSoto County Animal Shelter assistant director Monica Mock and shelter employees Martie Sparks , Dontay Cooper and Lucy Massey, check in 30 surrendered cats at the Nesbit facility.

Running figures for the next fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the DeSoto County Regional Utility Authority board is weighing a very tentative 2013 budget with a $511,000 increase over last year's $5.9 million blueprint for municipal wastewater services.

County Supervisor Mark Gardner takes a photo of DeSoto Administrative Services Director Vannessa Lynchard and fellow supervisor Lee Caldwell behind bars during a tour of the county's new jail under construction in Hernando.

An unidentified parent volunteer, right, talks with DeSoto County deputy Kenny Free following a private lot accident at Lake Cormorant Elementary School, Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Desoto County, Mississippi.

WALLS, Miss. -- A wagon participating in a hayride at Lake Cormorant Elementary School turned over this morning, sending an undetermined number of children to the hospital.

Walls Mayor Lynda Austin stops by to chat with firefighters Deputy Chief Erik Creasy , Lt.

It's not exactly the boomtown part of Desoto County. Walls, Mississippi is in the northeast corner of the Magnolia State.

This year's Countywide Spring Cleanup was even bigger than last year when DeSoto Environmental Services manager Jim Bearden hefted bags of office refuse into a receptacle outside the County Administration Building in Hernando.

DeSoto County supervisors Monday upheld a decision to not allow expanded hours at a motor cross track and endorsed a comprehensive emergency services priority list.