Tate County News

The Southaven Fire Department will host its second Fire Academy for Kids program the weeks of June 11-15 and June 25-29. There is a limit of 20 kids for each session of the academy.

Robert King, North Panola's state-appointed conservator, conducted business without a school board present Monday night, the result of a vote by the Mississippi Board of Education that abolished the board.

He's a killer who wants to die. That's how those who know Michael Brawner describe the four-time murderer.

Terry Jordan in front of the house she thought she purchased. She actually bought the house next door.

State Attorney General Jim Hood asked earlier this month that justices set execution dates for Henry Curtis Jackson Jr., Gary Carl Simmons Jr.

Mississippi investigators locked up the man who they say shot and killed two drivers on interstate roadsides last week.

Law enforcement officials are investigating whether a Wednesday incident in Humphreys County and an April 2 incident in Tate County might be linked to two murders that happened recently along north Mississippi highways.

The search for a suspected Mississippi highway killer has investigators working overtime.

Tate County sheriff Brad Lance, left, Lent Rice, DeSoto County sheriff's office, Jay Hale, DeSoto County district attorney's office, Panola County sheriff Dennis Darby, John Champion, DeSoto County District Attorney and DeSoto County Sheriff Bill Rasco make their way to the county courthouse in Hernando, Miss., on Monday, May 14, 2012 for a news ... (more)

Drivers are urged to use extreme caution especially if an unmarked vehicle with blue lights is trying to pull over.

With the search for someone suspected of acting like an officer and carrying out two murders along Mississippi highways ongoing, commuters like Markendra Keys are fearful.

Mississippi authorities are urging drivers to be wary when being pulled over by a police officer after two people were shot and killed by someone police think could be posing as a cop to get motorists to stop.

A woman in Mississippi says she spent thousands of dollars buying and rehabbing a foreclosed home, only to find out after the fact that she had bought the house next door, TV station WREG-TV is reporting.

Florida A&M University's prestigious marching band, scarred by the hazing death of one of its drum majors, won't be taking the field for at least another year.

The Sheriff of Tate County, MS has confirmed to News Channel 3 that two north Mississippi highway shootings are related.

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.