Sunflower County News

Four Sunflower County women remain in lockup this morning after taking police officers on a wild chase through the streets of Cleveland.

"I said, 'Oh, This can't be me,'" said King, 18, who grew up in Sunflower County.

The state plans to let local officials again control the Okolona school district and will consider releasing at least two others.

The state plans to release the Okolona school district back to local control in the coming year, and will consider releasing at least two others to local control.

Kattie Lee C. Peterson, 88, of Mound Bayou died Saturday, May 5, 2012, at Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland.

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture program is offering money and advice to help farmers, ranchers and forest landowners in parts of six counties in Mississippi and five Louisiana parishes reduce runoff to badly damaged waterways.

As state officials were laying out the Aberdeen school district's problems before taking it over, an accrediting commission member asked why state officials didn't investigate problems earlier.

SOYBEAN rotation, barnyardgrass left uncontrolled in the soybean crop and growing up in wheel tracks will have to be dealt with during the following year's rice crop.

Older Americans Month is observed during May to recognize older Americans and the contributions they make to our communities.

In March, a 13-year-old operating an ATV with three other children aboard drove it onto a road in... After a line of deadly tornadoes decimated Mississippi communities like Smithville last year, Kelly Riley called state Superintendent of Education Tom Burnham and asked what her Mississippi Professional Educators organization could do to help.