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DUCK HILL – Montgomery County Sheriff Jerry ‘Bubba’ Nix confirmed that a local businessman was found murdered in his home late Tuesday night. Nix said that William McCuiston, owner of the Spring Hill Tree Service, […]

HOLCOMB – A 22-year old man has confessed to the brutal murders of a disabled former police officer and his live-in caregiver in Holcomb earlier this month, Grenada County Sheriff Alton Strider said this week. […]

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats face deep divisions within their ranks as they begin debate Monday on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, with the recent all-hands-on-deck coalition frayed over abortion and the option of government-run […]

WINDERMERE, Fla. – Despite presenting his side of the car-crash story and asking that it remain “a private matter,” Tiger Woods may still not be in the clear. Troopers arriving at his Isleworth home requesting […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will announce his plan to bolster the war in Afghanistan in a speech Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his spokesman said, a surge that military […]

MIAMI – In the days after 15-year-old Michael Brewer was set on fire by a group of teens, his mother, Valerie Brewer, sat at his hospital bedside and worried. “How are we going to get […]

YAZOO COUNTY – A 14-year old Yazoo County student who pulled a gun on a school bus full of children two months ago will not be charged as an adult, District Attorney James Powell said. […]

WASHINGTON – A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the “system is broken.” “We prefer to go at […]

GRENADA – A Grenada police officer was arrested Wednesday, while on duty, and charged with sexual battery of a child under the age of 18. Officer Donnie Tenner, 41, of Charleston, was arrested at the Grenada […]

When Vaiden native Melvin Hawthorne ran for political office more than six months ago, he didn’t set out to make history. But that’s exactly what he’s done. Elected this June as the mayor of Vaiden […]