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Three dead, two injured, including DeSoto Sheriff's Dept. employees, after crash in North Mississippi, officials say

MISSISSIPPI. - Three people are dead and two others were injured after a crash in North Mississippi on Wednesday, the Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) said. MHP responded to a deadly crash on US 61 in Desoto County on Wednesday around 8:04 p.m. According to MHP, 27-year-old Da'Quarius Burton was driving...

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Walls, MS mayor: Multiple lives lost in crash involving officer

UPDATE: Victims ID’d in fatal DeSoto County, MS crash involving officer Note: This story has been updated with new information from the mayor of Walls. WALLS, Miss. — A wreck on Highway 61 Wednesday night involved a patrol officer and a civilian vehicle, the mayor of Walls, Mississippi said in an official statement. Multiple people […]

Walls, MS · 2d

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We Ranked The 9 Best Vietnamese Pho Shops In Mississippi, And Here Is Who Made The Cut

A rainy afternoon, a strip mall parking lot, and one steaming bowl of noodle soup changed how we think about eating in Mississippi. Pho is a Vietnamese soup made with slow-cooked broth, rice noodles, and fresh herbs, and it has quietly found a home all across the state. Kids love...

Starkville, MS · 1d
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The Panolian

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New Hope For Panola Medical

Panola Medical Center marked another chapter in its history Thursday, Oct. 29, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating new ownership and a renewed commitment to providing medical care for Batesville and […]

Batesville, MS · 2d

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Buxton, Panola County: Railroads, Gravel Pits, and a Forgotten Mississippi Community

Appalachian Community Histories – Buxton, Panola County: Railroads, Gravel Pits, and a Forgotten Mississippi Community. In the northwestern corner of Panola County, Mississippi, near the boundary of the Mississippi Delta and the wooded uplands that rise above it, lies the history of a small community called Buxton. Unlike the larger towns of Batesville, Sardis, and Crenshaw, Buxton never developed into a major commercial center, and much of its past survives not in traditional town histories but in railroad documents, geological surveys, court proceedings, and historical maps. Those scattered records reveal a community whose importance was closely tied to the railroad and the gravel deposits beneath the surrounding countryside.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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FOX13 Investigates: MBI report details findings in Kohen Wiley death investigation

SENATOBIA, Miss. - The criminal case in the death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley has been closed. Now, FOX13 Investigates is getting an inside look at what led to that decision by state officials. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) turned over the findings of their investigation to the Attorney General's...

Senatobia, MS · 2d

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Ballentine, Panola County: A Rural Post Office, Family Papers, and the Mystery of Dickens Place

Appalachian Community Histories – Ballentine, Panola County: A Rural Post Office, Family Papers, and the Mystery of Dickens Place. Along Ballentine Road in Panola County, Mississippi, lies a community whose history reaches beyond the name appearing on modern maps. Ballentine, an unincorporated settlement situated approximately three miles south of Pleasant Grove and four and a half miles south-southwest of Curtis Station, belongs to the network of small rural communities that developed across northern Mississippi during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although it never became a major town or county seat, its appearance in federal geographical records, postal directories, and local historical collections provides evidence of a community whose identity survived long after its post office disappeared.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Alabama man charged with arson in Senatobia police station fire

SENATOBIA — A Huntsville, Alabama, man has been charged federally with arson in the Oct. 31 fire at the Senatobia Police Department, U.S. Attorney Scott F. Leary announced Friday. Garrick Rawls, 41, was located in northern Alabama earlier this week. He was charged by criminal complaint Nov. 2 and...

Senatobia, MS · 1d

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Man wanted in connection to armed robbery captured, police say

CROWDER, Miss. – A man who fled from a stolen car tied to an armed robbery and aggravated assault in Memphis has been captured, according to the Panola County Sheriff’s Office. Titus Lester, 30, had been considered armed and dangerous. Deputies were working with the Shelby County Sheriff’s...

Crowder, MS · 23h

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Musk announces two new Mississippi data centers amid concerns with traffic, construction and resources

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is constructing two additional data centers in Southaven, bringing the company’s total footprint in the Memphis metropolitan area to six facilities, officials confirmed. The new sites on Tulane Road—code-named “Gun Range” at a former municipal training facility and “Spam”...

Southaven, MS · 1d

Mississippi Today

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DeSoto County, a Republican stronghold, key to Scott Colom’s midterm election performance

Put simply, if Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith had performed as well as she did in 2020 in that one county – DeSoto – she would not be staring at a potential history-making upset.

Desoto County, MS · 2h

The Panolian

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Supervisors question county’s role in ambulance service

Panola County supervisors expressed frustration Monday with Lifeguard, the county’s ambulance service, prompting Board President Cole Flint to question whether county government should continue subsidizing a private business to provide […]

Panola County, MS · 2d

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Batesville, Panola County: Ancient Mounds, Railroads, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Appalachian Community Histories – Batesville, Panola County: Ancient Mounds, Railroads, and the Fight for Civil Rights. In the heart of Panola County, Mississippi, the city of Batesville developed from a small railroad settlement into one of northern Mississippi’s important centers of commerce, government, and community life. Its history stretches far beyond the arrival of the railroad in the nineteenth century, reaching back to Native American communities that occupied the surrounding landscape nearly two thousand years ago. Over the generations, the area witnessed the displacement of the Chickasaw people, the decline of once-prosperous river settlements, the upheaval of the Civil War, the expansion of agriculture and industry, and the long struggle for African American civil rights.

Batesville, MS · 1d

WREG

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Every vote counts in close MS Senate race, says attorney

DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — As Mississippi’s U.S. Senate seat hangs in the balance, people are making sure their vote counts before the deadline. With the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith being so close, Attorney Jake Brown says every eligible ballot matters.   “Anybody, no matter who you voted for […]

Mississippi · 1d

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DeSoto Co. juvenile detention officer killed, another critically wounded in crash

DESOTO CO., Miss. (WMC) - An officer of the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office Juvenile Detention Center is dead, and another is seriously wounded following a crash Wednesday. The sheriff’s office confirmed the officers were involved in a wreck in Walls, Mississippi. The Walls Police Department says one of their patrol officers was also involved.

Walls, MS · 2d

Mississippi Today

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DeSoto County elects its first Black judges

Voters in a DeSoto County subdistrict elected Southaven attorneys John Hughes as circuit court judge and Gwen Baptist as a chancery judge, making them the county's first Black judges.

Desoto County, MS · 2d

The Commercial Appeal

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National Guard Memphis shooting video released; Senatobia PD arson suspect found

Elections dominated the headlines this past week, with voters casting ballots for federal and state legislatures, but Election Day did not stop the wheels of the criminal justice system from turning. In Memphis, a day before the election, the Shelby County District Attorney's Office released footage showing the pursuit before Tyrin Johnson was shot by National Guard soldiers. And, as voters hit the polls, law enforcement arrested an activist and charged him with setting fire to the Senatobia, Mississippi police department's building . Here's what else was on the docket for the week of Nov. 2, 2026. Video released in fatal National Guard shooting investigation Video released by the Shelby County DA's Office on Nov. 2 shows National Guard soldiers chasing after Johnson before firing at him. He was shot in the back, according to his autopsy report . Johnson was killed in the early hours of July 5 during a pursuit. His case remains under investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at the time the video was released, but the office sought to release the footage "in the nature of transparency," Shelby County DA Steve Mulroy said in an Oct. 29 press conference. Additionally, no charging decision had

Memphis, TN · 2d

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Askew, Panola County: From Askews Bluff to Railroads, Country Stores, and Rural Churches

Appalachian Community Histories – Askew, Panola County: From Askews Bluff to Railroads, Country Stores, and Rural Churches. In the northwestern corner of Panola County, Mississippi, near the communities of Crenshaw and Buxton, lies Askew, a small rural settlement whose history reaches back to the nineteenth century. Although it never developed into a large incorporated town, Askew once maintained a post office, supported general stores and nearby sawmills, and served as a station along the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. Its name appeared in government surveys, railroad maps, commercial directories, and church records, leaving behind evidence of a community that played a modest but recognizable role in the economic and social life of northern Mississippi.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Groups raise concerns about public view of affidavit ballot count in 3 Mississippi counties

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Local groups are raising concerns about how affidavit ballots are being counted in DeSoto, Harrison and Madison counties. The groups say part of the process is happening out of public view. Harya Tarekegn, director of advocacy for the Mississippi Center for Justice, said some counties are...

Mississippi · 1d

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SpaceXAI is building 2 more AI data centers in Southaven

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Elon Musk said SpaceXAI is building two more data centers in Southaven adjacent to Colossus 2 right across the state line in Memphis. This will make six SpaceXAI data centers operating in the Memphis metro area. Data centers in Memphis and Southaven. SpaceXAI has three data...

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