Desoto County News

A federal judge says Mississippi death row inmate William Wiley should not be executed for a 1981 DeSoto County murder because of mental retardation.

A federal judge says Mississippi death row inmate William Wiley should not be executed for a 1981 DeSoto County murder because of mental retardation.

FOX13 News has learned through multiple sources that a large scale investigation into the trafficking of illegal steroids is taking place in Desoto County.

DEA Agents raided a tractor-trailer in Olive Branch late Thursday morning, confiscating around one million dollars worth of marijuana.

Now two men are behind bars, and now police say their arrest could have solved a county wide problem.

Nine of 13 students taken by DeSoto Central teacher Megan Morgan for tryouts were selected for the Delta State University Honor Choir.

Supervisors Monday selected Evans Taylor Foster Childress Architects of Memphis, the architectural firm that designed the Criminal Justice Complex at 201 Poplar, to design a new DeSoto County jail.

In Mississippi the Department of Health is starting to give out the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but those inoculations will be limited to certain groups.

The American Civil Liberties Union is attacking the Code of Discipline in DeSoto County Schools.

Mother Nature has won out over DeSoto County prep football once again. The steady rain has forced the cancellation of seven games scheduled for Friday night.

Two men have been arrested in connection with several car burglaries in Southaven, MS.

The former AmFab building in Olive Branch has been purchased by CE-Bio LLC. A nutritional supplements manufacturer has taken advantage of a slow commercial real estate market to purchase a facility in Olive Branch's Metro Industrial Park.

Mike Kent and John Jordan said they each got their share of whacks with a paddle when they were children.

The death of a missing Olive Branch man whose body was discovered Saturday was ruled a suicide by the State Medical Examiner's office.

The Emmett Till Traveling Exhibit is on display at the DeSoto County Museum in Hernando through Nov.

A Walls, Miss., man apparently took his own life after barricading himself in a house on Black Oak in Walls on Thursday evening, DeSoto County Sheriff Bill Rasco said.

Southaven High School junior Chelsey Jones talks with Freed Hardeman University admissions counselor Josh Walden about her options during the college fair.

An aerobatic pilot is in serious condition after his plane crashed at an airport South of Hernando, Mississippi Wednesday afternoon.

Population growth in DeSoto County is raising questions about whether the county has ample representation in the Mississippi State House.

A Hernando pilot is recovering in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after being injured when his plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Green Village Residential Airpark in DeSoto County.