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Island residents will be able to safely and responsibly dispose of household chemical waste, such as leftover paints, cleaners, herbicides, pesticides, automoti
And here’s a consumer alert for all you new pandemic parents: “ When parents first serve solid foods to their babies, they often turn to infant rice cereal. The iron-fortified mix is nutritious and relatively easy to feed babies unaccustomed to spoons or strong flavors. But the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in this favored first food as it does in other products, like bottled water and apple juice — despite the fact that, as a neurotoxin, arsenic can have an outsize impact on babies, whose brains are still developing.” Read more at E & E News. Or, learn...
TUPELO • Key government buildings operated by Lee County and the city of Tupelo will remain closed Thursday because of the threat of more severe winter weather.
TUPELO • All government facilities and buildings maintained by Lee County and the city of Tupelo will be closed tomorrow because of severe winter weather.
1 of 21 Only a few area residents braved the icy roads at crosstown in Tupelo, Monday morning. Most of Northeast Mississippi awoke Monday morning to find roads covered in a sheet of ice, making driving conditions treacherous. By Monday at noon, emergency officials across the region were concerned continued sleeting might cause power outages. THOMAS WELLS | BUY at PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM Adam Robison | BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM Adam Robison | BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM Shante Evans, of Tupelo, checks her phone as she walks home to her apartment on West Main Street after go...