Gary Carnathan News Today

TUPELO — Lee County Officials mulled a potential contract with a private emergency helicopter service for the county’s deputies and their families.

Verona’s 8th Annual Christmas Parade was held Dec. 15, 2022, and more than 150 parade participants made their way around route in perfect weather, inspiring more than 200 onlookers from

TUPELO — Around two dozen residents packed Verona City Hall on Tuesday night to oppose a development project that would add 125 dwellings to the small city.

TUPELO • Lee County School District officials plan to redraw district lines after census data revealed significant population changes in its current districts.

JACKSON • One day after marijuana became legal in Mississippi for medicinal use, the state House on Thursday passed legislation that would make the herbal product known as kratom illegal.

TUPELO • Absent any action by state authorities or federal agencies to restrict the herbal product called kratom, a coalition of local parents and law enforcement officials is again asking

TUPELO • A former Verona police officer has been waiting four years for the Lee County town to resolve her sexual harassment lawsuit and a separate workers compensation claim. Stephanie Goree Moffett filed a federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claim in late 2016, alleging that former Verona Police Chief J.B. Long sexually harassed her. She said the city tried to settle the ensuing federal lawsuit by offering her just $1,000. Moffett was attacked by a suspect in February 2017, l...

TUPELO • Officials at the Lee County Adult Jail are still agreeing to house the city of Tupelo’s prisoners, even though they are now under no legal obligation to accept

TUPELO • Officials at the Lee County Adult Jail are still agreeing to house the city of Tupelo’s prisoners, even though they are now under no legal obligation to accept

TUPELO • Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson says his department will not enforce any executive orders intended to limit the escalating spread of COVID-19 throughout the state even as the Tupelo Police Department makes plans to ramp up enforcement of existing safety measures. Johnson told the Daily Journal in a telephone interview that he has ordered Lee County sheriff’s deputies not to issue citations or arrest people for failing to follow executive orders issued by state or local officia...