
Ornaments of Love available
By CHARLIE SMITH,Marion General Hospital Auxiliary members, from left, Linnie Bell, Wanda Westmoreland and Judy Tolar stand Tuesday by some of the Ornaments of Love hanging at the hospital.
Marion General Hospital Auxiliary members, from left, Linnie Bell, Wanda Westmoreland and Judy Tolar stand Tuesday by some of the Ornaments of Love hanging at the hospital.
For more than a month workers have been setting up trees, hanging lights, decorating the courthouse, building ice skating rinks and much more, all to be revealed this weekend.
A former Foxworth resident was one of 10 people to die on state highways over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
A citizen and a supervisor exchanged a brief set of words Monday at the Marion County Board of Supervisors meeting over a potential raise for supervisors.
Betty Oglesbee asked when the raises for the supervisors were coming up for discussion, and Board Attorney Drew Foxworth told her it can be discussed in January.
With the Christmas celebration to begin this week, curiosity mixed with fascination has been aroused in the citizens of Marion County over a most unusual site in this part of the country — an outdoor ice skating rink.
A Prentiss woman has been ordered to pay restitution plus damages of more than $36,000 after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud but will avoid jail time.
Arshae Hawthorne, 46, admitted to filing two false claims between January 2015 and June 2015, according to documents filed in Marion County Circuit Court.
Has anyone else noticed that nurses now seem more interested in inputting data into their electronic devices when you talk with them than listening to what’s wrong with you?
That drives me nuts.
Because so much of retail spending occurs during the Christmas shopping season, this is the time to remind people to try to do as much of their holiday gift buying as they can with their hometown merchants.
Honduran authorities say a television journalist was shot to death last week shortly after leaving his station. Security spokesman Jair Meza Barahona says that José Arita was killed after leaving Channel 12 in the north coast city of Puerto Cortes.
Put a fork in ’em. The Democrats are done as a statewide force in Mississippi, and it may take a generation or longer before that changes.