Alcorn County News

Jerry Latch isn't interested in shelling out extra money to express himself with a car tag promoting a particular group or cause, but he knows plenty of people who do.

John Wolfe got 42 percent of the vote in the Arkansas Democratic presidential primary and he's going suing to claim what he believes is his share of delegates.

A woman was found dead in her car outside a convenience store at Cass and Meigg Streets a short time after going inside to make a purchase Saturday night.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated an Alcorn County court's decision related to a woman's efforts to withdraw money from certificates of deposit.

Residents of Alcorn County Road 346 asked supervisors Monday to leave a long-closed bridge in their community dormant.

Slightly more than a week ago today, Mississippi Republican State Representative Bubba Carpenter addressed his local GOP chapter, in Alcorn County, speaking of his pride in a new law that "literally stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi." However, the term "coat hanger abortions," used by Carpenter, drew much negative reaction.

Governor Phil Bryant announced today Caterpillar is locating warehousing and logistics operations in a new 540,000-square-foot facility to be built in Corinth, Miss., in Alcorn County.

Republican Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter recently gave a callous assessment of a state anti-abortion law that critics have cautioned could close down the state's only abortion clinic.

A Ripley minister interested in buying 18 acres of property owned by Jesus Name Community Church in the northwestern corner of Alcorn County denied late last week that he plans to put a half-way house on the property.

IUKA, Miss. -- A 34-year-old Tishomingo County woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2009 beating death of a Burnsville man.