It was a day that was supposed to feature the music of Pomp and Circumstance as classmates, family, friends and others filled the Landers Center to watch the DeSoto Central Class of 2018 receive their diplomas.
Now in its second year, an effort to memorialize Ann Brown Ashcraft, a wife, mother and grandmother, as well as a book lover and patron of the arts and history, is helping to provide books to chronically ill children.
A 29 year-old Olive Branch died when his vehicle careened off a rural DeSoto County road and struck a tree, instantly causing the vehicle to explode in flames.
Cars whiz past a barbed-wire fence at the corner of Swinnea and Star Landing Road where horses and a burro graze on the sparse grass of a weedy pasture.
As the late music legend Elvis Presley considered the next step in his career during the late 1960s and needed some time to get away from the limelight, Elvis would head south of Graceland to his Circle G Ranch in Horn Lake.
The Northwest Mississippi Community College's Library on the main campus in Senatobia and also at the DeSoto Center is a world-class resource for students from across the Mid-South.
Candidates whose names will appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot are gearing up their campaigns to run for elected office.
As the start of the 2018-19 school year approaches, a scramble happens each year in stores all over by moms and dads all trying to make sure their youngsters have the tools they need to learn.
DeSoto County, despite having one of the top-performing public school districts in the state of Mississippi, still has students who, for whatever reason, are not reaching their full academic and/or character potential.
DeSoto County will join an interlocal pact with several other counties to obtain high-resolution GIS mapping of the county down to six-inch scale accuracy.
To show appreciation to the DeSoto County School District in the first week of the new school year, First Tennessee Bank provided lunch for about 250 Central Services employees Friday afternoon in Hernando. The meals were purchased at a 20 percent discount from the Olive Branch Chick-fil-A a…
For residents of the City of Hernando living primarily in the Jaybird Road area, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Precautionary Boil-Water Alert for customers who receive their drinking water from their water supply located in DeSoto County.
The DeSoto County School District (DCS) Board of Education has two seats up for election this November and Wednesday was the first day for candidates to file to be placed on the ballot.
Two Illinois men have been arrested and are being charged with kidnapping and conspiracy connected to last week’s disappearance of an Olive Branch teenager.
Chick-fil-A’s annual Topple the Truck fundraiser for DeSoto County Schools delivered school supplies Monday afternoon to the DCS Central Services office in Hernando. The Chick-fil-A locations in Southaven and Olive Branch have collected items for schools to have access to during the year. A …
Vacation has officially ended for what is expected to be another record number of students in Mississippi’s largest school district as Monday started classes in the DeSoto County School District.
Whether or not DeSoto County follows through on long-anticipated plans to build a county-owned and maintained park adjacent to Hawk's Crossing subdivision with access from the subdivision into the park is still undecided as supervisors decided to table the issue until residents can present a…
A young Olive Branch boy missing since Wednesday was found safe in Illinois, according to family members over the weekend.
For years, the residents living along flood-prone Holly Springs Road have had to contend with frequent flooding and erosion of the roadway during high-water events.
The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department is welcoming four new deputies who excelled during the 12-week Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer’s Training Academy in Pearl. The group brought back awards ranking them in the top tier of their class. The awards were for firearms training and academic…
All is about ready for the new school year to start on Monday, Aug. 6 in the DeSoto County School District (DCS).
Olive Branch police officials Friday were still seeking the public’s help in finding a missing teenager who was last seen early in the week.
DeSoto County is getting charged up for the Mid-South Area Job Fair in Southaven with a new location this year.
The newly-minted District Governor of Rotary District 6800 is urging members of the Mid-South's largest contingent of Rotarians to become more "engaged" in their communities.
DeSoto County roads and highways have become deadly within the past 48 hours with the deaths of at least three individuals in separate, unrelated accidents.
DeSoto County roads and highways have become deadly within the past 48 hours with the deaths of at least three individuals in separate, unrelated accidents.
Loss of oxygen in surface water in DeSoto County's lakes, ponds and streams is the most common cause of natural fish kills which are common in hot months like August and September.
The first day of the education year started a little earlier on Friday for about 270 new employees of Mississippi’s largest school district. They were the ones being educated and not doing the educating, however.
A former Lewisburg High School instructor has been jailed and is facing charges connected with having given material to a minor that included content of a sexual nature.
Entergy Mississippi President and CEO Haley Fisackerly (second from left) recently presented a $5,000 grant to the DeSoto County Foundation for Excellence In Education for its first annual “Pathways2Possibilities” DeSoto Career Expo. The interactive technical career fair will give some 3,000…
Chad Kinnision of Olive Branch (back row, fourth from right) received a R. Gene Holmes Endowment from the Mississippi Trucking Association Foundation in its recent scholarship awards program. The trucking association gave a record 38 scholarships during a recent luncheon it hosted on Monday,…
Diane Smith, Classified Manager for the DeSoto Times-Tribune, is manning the newspaper's effort to help with the "Operation Feed" Food Drive for the Mid-South Food Bank, now through July 31.
Shoppers in DeSoto County and across the state of Mississippi may have a few extra pennies jingling in their pocket or purse if they are out making purchases this weekend.
Diane Smith, Classifieds Manager for the DeSoto Times-Tribune, is manning the newspaper's effort to help with the "Operation Feed" Food Drive for the Mid-South Food Bank, now through July 31.
An Olive Branch woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of filing false tax returns.
People behind a new residential-commercial development near the Getwell-Starlanding Road intersection can move ahead with their plans following a zoning approval vote by the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors Monday morning.
The DeSoto County School District (DCS) has been asked again by a Wisconsin group to stop what it terms “unconstitutional prayer” at school functions.
Melissa Green, Director of Accreditation and MIS for the DeSoto County School District, assists Dexter and Nathan Washington in the online registration process. Green’s office at Central Services in Hernando has extended hours ahead of the start of school to assist in the registration proces…
An Olive Branch family is helping to literally give individuals like a teenager born with a genetic defect a helping hand.
Celebrating five years of service in the community, Methodist Olive Branch Hospital will host a free, family-friendly community health fair that includes free health screenings, CPR demonstrations, nutrition and cooking demonstrations, a blood drive, infant and prenatal information, games fo…
With the start of the 2018-2019 DeSoto County School District (DCS) classroom year about to start on Aug. 6, three school administrative changes have been announced.
A south Mississippi man died in a two-vehicle crash along U.S. Hwy. 78 in Olive Branch on Thursday morning, according to DeSoto County Interim Coroner Josh Pounders.
The old adage about getting success in most anything is, “Practice, practice, practice.” Former NBA basketball star Allen Iverson once ranted, “We talkin’ about practice,” referencing the word more than two dozen times during a media availability to stress how little practice meant to him.
The firearms policy at the Landers Center, the busy venue in Southaven that hosts concerts, sporting events and other events such as high school graduations, came into question at a recent meeting of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors.
A proposal to build a convenience store at the southeast corner of Stateline and Pleasant Hill roads in Olive Branch was denied by the Board of Aldermen during Tuesday night’s meeting.
Voters wishing to cast ballots in runoff elections are being given more time to register to vote in those elections, pursuant to a petition by a civil rights group.
Daniel Davis, 16, is a budding artist who aspires to be the next Edgar Degas, or perhaps Claude Monet.
Grace abounds in the lives of youngsters who often don't have a chance to grow spiritually or in character.
Lewisburg Fire Chief David Linville has always been putting out fires and that’s a good thing.
DeSoto County authorities remain on the lookout for a DeSoto County teen who was reported missing on June 20. Chief Inspector Roger Hutchins with the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department said Abigail Foster, 16, was last seen in the Eudora area. Investigators said she has run away from home pr…
