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TUPELO • Nettie Davis has won a pathway to her sixth term of office in Ward 4, while matchups between incumbents and challengers in Ward 2 and Ward 3 are now known. According to nearly complete but uncertified results in Ward 2, Demetra Tubbs-Sherer won almost 58% of the vote in a Democrat primary to defeat Candice Knowles. As the Democrat nominee, Tubbs-Sherer will face Ward 2 incumbent Lynn Bryan, a Republican, in the June 8 general election. Sherer is a real estate agent for Tommy Morgan Realtors; Bryan is a construction contractor. In Ward, 3, incumbent Councilman Travis Beard ...

TUPELO • Voters in the All America City will cast ballots today that will shape the next four years of municipal leadership. Tupelo will see contested primaries in Tuesday’s elections for mayor, as well as a number of city elections. Few races will be settled by primaries, however. In the mayoral race, for example, Todd Jordan and Markel Whittington are competing for the Republican nominee, with the winner set to face Democrat Victor Fleitas in a June 8 general election. Whittington is an incumbent City Council member and local businessman seeking the city’s top elected posi...

TUPELO • Around a dozen candidates running for Tupelo municipal office have missed a deadline to properly disclose sources of their income and other financial interests, running afoul of state ethics laws. Mississippi requires candidates for public office to file a statement of economic interest with the State Ethics Commission within 15 days after the qualifying period ends. The qualifying deadline was Feb. 5, which means the deadline for candidates to submit their economic interest forms was on Friday, Feb. 20. Even though they’ve missed the statutory deadline, candidates still ha...

TUPELO • Old fast-food meals. Soda and beer cans. Cigarette boxes – those were just some of the things John Knight and his Greek fraternity brothers cleaned up off the streets in east Tupelo on Saturday morning. It was all part of the Keep Tupelo Beautiful program, which works to inspire and inform residents to make their community better by preventing litter, promoting recycling and improving the city’s beauty and quality of life. Members of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity-Omega Mu Mu Chapter of Tupelo said they’re all about community and unity, and they want to do their par...

[author: Susan Nikdel] On November 20, 2020, the CFPB filed a lawsuit against a student-loan debt-relief company, FDATR, Inc., and its owners, Dean Tucci and Kenneth Wayne Halverson. FDATR was an Illinois company that involuntarily dissolved in September 2020. Through telemarketing and telephone sales, FDATR promised to provide student-loan debt-relief and credit-repair services to consumers. The complaint, filed in an Illinois federal district court, alleges that FDATR and its owners violated the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) by engaging in deceptive and abusive telemarketing acts or pract...