Attala County News

While no severe thunderstorm watch was in effect, hail-producing storms prompted dozens of warnings across parts of central Mississippi on Monday.

Hernando Bicycle Club's Ride of Silence, launching at 7 this evening to call attention to road-sharing and safety by all users, takes on added significance this year with the May 6 death of an Attala County physician cycling on the Natchez Trace.

Services for Dr. Gary Holdiness will be 5 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church in Kosciusko.

Attala County Chancery Clerk Gary Taylor told The Associated Press Lee died Monday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

KOSCIUSKO, Miss. -- An Attala County doctor was struck by a vehicle and killed as he rode his bike on the Natchez Trace.

If, as an editorial published August 24, 2010 in this space opined, "Political wars are won during the redistricting process," Panola County should be a sore loser over the Senate redistricting plan that the legislature is approving as these words are written.

Kosciusko High School senior Juan Rodriguez and his family cried tears of happiness when they got the news that his college education would be paid in full.

A Durant native with ties to Attala County was taken into custody after a five-hour standoff at a home Friday was taken to St.