Neshoba County News

The 60th Annual Choctaw Indian Fair continues through Saturday. Between 25,000 and 30,000 people are expected to attend.

The exhibit, 'Mississippi Boy. Marty Stuart. The Neshoba County Years,' opened Thursday at the Philadelphia-Neshoba County Museum.

My dear departed friend Gale Denley said years ago of his first visit to the Neshoba County Fair: 'It's a lot like what I always imagined Hell would be - it's hot, it's dusty and all my friends are there.' Gale has graduated to the Fair Eternal, but the political speaking he loved so much will continue in the fair's grand tradition.

I hope you will give me this opportunity to express my gratitude to the doctors, nurses and others of the Neshoba County Hospital for their kindness and excellent care I received during my recent illness.

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"We're calling for justice," Annual Mississippi Civil Rights Martyrs Memorial Service and Conference Chairman John Steele.

The Ku Klux Klan's killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi that stunned a nation 45 years ago again are being investigated.

June 19, 2009 Forty five years ago this Father's Day, three civil rights workers were ambushed and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan on a small road in Neshoba County, Miss.

A A A' Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

Temp: 80.0 F Heat Index: 85 F Meridian, Key Field, MS An investigation is ongoing into a fatal 2-vehicle collision in Neshoba County Sunday afternoon.

Heat Index: 96 F The Mississippi Department of Transportation announced updates on projects in Newton, Lauderdale, and Neshoba counties.

The year before I retired from full-time teaching in higher education in 2007, I won a statewide contest on using the iPod in a creative faculty commentary.

Philadelphia police are investigating a one-vehicle crash that left two people dead Wednesday.

Civil rights activists and others are being invited to attend a June 20 gathering in Neshoba County to remember the killings of three civil rights workers 45 years ago.

Hot and sticky, muddy and one of the best times of my life. That's how I would describe my first Neshoba County Fair experience in 2007.

Mayoral runoffs this week in about a dozen cities around Mississippi kept a few people in office, put a few new faces in the top spot and set the stage for the June 2 general election.

JACKSON, Miss. - Philadelphia appears to have elected its first black mayor. Former Neshoba County supervisor James Young led incumbent Mayor Rayburn Waddell in Tuesday's tight Democratic Party primary runoff, according to unofficial results.

The Philadelphia mayoral race is close, with a 41-vote difference between Democrats James Young and Rayburn Waddell.

Former Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. defeated councilman Marshand Crisler in Tuesday's Democratic Party runoff.

The Tunica/Lula market in the Mississippi Delta was the nation's sixth largest casino market in 2008, generating $1.05 billion, according to an American Gaming Association report released Monday.