Tallahatchie County News

For a commercial landscaper, October represents a transitional month. Grass cutting is slowing down and by month's end leaf raking is picking up.

In Mississippi, over 500 blacks had been lynched since 1882. Racially motivated murders were not uncommon in the Mississippi Delta and Mamie Till Bradley a schoolteacher in Chicago tried her best to school her 14-year-old son, Emmett about that prior to his trip to the Delta where she had relatives.

Federal authorities are checking into allegations that a group of white men used a vintage military vehicle in the Aug.

In the Mississippi Delta, nothing spreads faster than a rumor that a white mob chased black thieves through a cotton field.

In the Mississippi Delta, nothing spreads faster than a rumor that an armed white mob chased black thieves through a cotton field.

The FBI says it's looking into the circumstances surrounding a burglary arrest in the Mississippi Delta during which residents reportedly took it upon themselves to search for the suspect.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says the U.S. Justice Department is investigating an incident in the Mississippi Delta in which he was told a mostly white group used weapons and "vigilante" techniques to search for a black burglary suspect.

The FBI says it's looking into the circumstances surrounding a burglary arrest in the Mississippi Delta during which residents reportedly took it upon themselves to search for the suspect.

It's pretty hard nowadays to recapture the sense of outrage generated by photographer William Eggleston's show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976.

Attorney General Jim Hood says three Copiah County men are charged with felony exploitation of a vulnerable adult in a financial scam against a 99-year-old woman from Tallahatchie County.

Offering college classes in Batesville would require permission from the state college board, the president of Northwest Community College told supervisors this week.

The two-day circuit court trial of Dennis Ray Cosby ended Tuesday with a guilty verdict and a life sentence.

Three Copiah County men face charges of felony exploitation of a vulnerable adult.

Three men have been arrested in Tallahatchie County in connection with the exploitation of a vulnerable adult and law enforcement is seeking two others, according to a news release from Attorney General Jim Hood's office.

Good things are set to happen all over the state with additional Community Development Block Grant money received through the federal Recovery Act.

The glass-covered coffin his mother put him in so 'the world would see what they've done to my boy' was left forgotten in a Chicago cemetery and inhabited by a family of opossums.

The federal stimulus package has helped keep some contractors in business, and will give towns in the Mississippi Delta a public service theya TMve gone without for decades: paved streets.

Batesville police last Thursday had in custody within hours a suspect in an armed robbery at the Check Advance store in Eaglecrest Shopping Center.

When P.W. 'Primus' Watson, then 25, came to Camp Shelby on March 8, 1946, in order to be discharged from the U.S. Army, he missed the last bus to his home in Monticello .

The federal stimulus package has helped keep some contractors in business, and will give towns in the Mississippi Delta a public service they've gone without for decades: paved streets.