Neshoba County News

Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.

Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.

It all started with a few tip offs. From there it went to a search warrant. After the Neshoba County Sheriff's Department and the Philadelphia Police Department executed the search warrant, Donnie Adkins, the Neshoba County Sheriff, said they discovered truth behind those tips.

Edgar Ray Killen long has proclaimed his innocence in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, saying he spent the night at a funeral home with the family of a girl who died.

Nearly a quarter century after U.S. Sen. Jim Eastland's death, Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen still talks about the many jobs he did for the veteran lawmaker.

Temp: 63.0 F Wind Chill: 64 F The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics says it has charged a father and son and three others in the Stallo community of Noxapater in Winston County, ending a months-long drug investigation.

Larry Ellis was nearing the end of two decades behind bars at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility when on Oct.

The Mississippi Department Of Transportation officially named a part of Highway 16 in Leake County Friday as the Van T. Barefoot Medal Of Honor Highway.

The Past Is Never Dead By Harry MacLean Hardcover, 304 pages Dutton Juvenile Basic Civitas Books: $25.95 Read An Excerpt The ghosts of Mississippi die hard.

Stan Tiner, executive editor of The Sun Herald, will receive the University of Mississippi's highest journalism award.

A reception Thursday honors the ongoing career of Tulane University barber Tom Davis Sunday, September 20, 2009 Sheila Stroup When Tom Davis opened his barber shop at Tulane University in September 1959, the stream of young men coming to get their hair cut was a lot to keep up with.

The majority of Mississippi road projects funded by the federal stimulus bill will be completed by the spring, a state transportation official says.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians was included in the will of Mary Katharine Loyacono McCravey, of Forest, to receive an original oil painting by P. Sanders McNeal.

It didn't take long for the caustic letters and comments to start coming in last week after Sen.

The late Gov. Ross Barnett delighted in the mid-1970s in taking his guitar and his oratorical skills under the tin roof of Mississippi's grandest political stage - the Founder's Square Pavilion at the Neshoba County Fair - and skewering Sen.

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - A historical marker will be dedicated Sept. 1 in Neshoba County at the site of where civil-rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were abducted by Ku Klux Klansmen and killed in 1964.

Neshoba County General Hospital in Philadelphia opened in the early 1960s. "There hasn't been a lot of reinvestment in the hospital facility itself, and as you know health care has changed over the years," said hospital CEO Scott Barrilleaux.

Populous South Mississippi is always fertile ground for votes and hopefuls for 2011 gubernatorial elections have started popping up in Biloxi, Wiggins and points south of Hattiesburg.

Federal authorities will continue to investigate the 1964 Mississippi killings of three civil rights workers - a case that helped pass landmark legislation - despite the death of a key suspect, the Justice Department says.

An east central Mississippi man whose arrest culminates an 18-month drug investigation is being held on a $750,000 bond in the Neshoba County Jail, according to Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director Marshall Fisher.