The Highway 19 four-landing project would get $65 million for widening from House to Tucker, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday in a plan to drive further economic development and growth in Mississippi.

A poultry farm in Leake County has been quarantined after poultry from a commercial broiler chicken flock tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza earlier this week, leaving roughly 90,000 chickens affected, state agriculture authorities say.

Greg McKee will retire as president and CEO of The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia on Jan. 31, 2023, the bank announced Tuesday. He will continue as a member of the Board of Directors.

Mary Ann Nicholson will face off against Jermaine Simmons in a runoff election for the Neshoba County School Board District 2 seat in three weeks after besting a field of four in Tuesday’s general election.

Two juveniles were arrested with guns at a Neshoba Central junior high football game on Monday evening, the authorities said. Jacarey Clemons, 16, of 611 Christine Street, was arrested and charged …

Two companies that make equipment to support the lumber industry are investing $8.14 million to open a facility here and will create 60 new jobs, officials announced Friday morning.

The death of an inmate at the Neshoba County Detention Facility  Sunday night is being investigated, the authorities aid.

Incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Guest won Neshoba County with about 47.4% of the vote in a tight race in Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District Republican primary Tuesday that appears headed for a June 28 runoff.

Dr. Shannon Whitehead, principal of McNeal Elementary School in Canton, has been appointed the new superintendent of the Philadelphia Public School District.

James Waltman has been declared the winner in the June 8 alderman-at-large election that incumbent Leroy Clemons challenged.

Philadelphia aldermen reversed course and in a 3-2 vote Tuesday night opted-in to medical marijuana.

Neshoba Central has accepted a $4 million bid on a new fine arts building, it was announced Friday.

The city of Philadelphia will opt out of medical marijuana.

Two men have been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man on Valley View Drive late Saturday night.

A suspect is in custody with charges pending and additional suspects are possible in a shooting death Saturday evening that claimed the life of an 18-year-old Philadelphia man.

The man fleeing law enforcement who crashed through a Line Street home Wednesday night as a boy worked on his computer catapulting him into the back yard was arrested about an hour later after he fled the horrific scene on foot and hid in the woods behind a nearby church, the authorities said.

A boy working on his computer was thrown from his room and seriously injured after a vehicle police were chasing slammed into his home and when through it at the south end of Poplar Avenue Wednesday evening, his family said.

A juvenile has been arrested in connection with a bomb threat to the Philadelphia Public Schools, the authorities said.

Federal authorities are involved after a bomb threat to the Philadelphia Public Schools.

A Philadelphia man shot and killed his mother sometime early this week in Country Club Estates and then turned the gun on himself, the authorities said.