Following the recent release of 2017-2018 school district and school performance grades, the Mississippi State Board of Education voted to pull back the report and reevaluate before making the grades official.
The Attala County Circuit Clerk office in the courthouse will be open from 8 a.m. to noon this Saturday, Oct. 6, to allow voters to register for the November 6 election. Voters can also register in person on Monday, Oct. 8, and by mail postmarked no later than Tuesday, Oct.
The Attala County School Board will begin a full search for a superintendent following the state legislature decision requiring all Mississippi school superintendents be appointed following the current term of any elected superintendent.
Some 40 locals attended a Democratic Party Rally at the Tipton Street School in Kosciusko last week. The rally featured Democratic candidates for United States House and Senate.
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12:42 am, Dr. MLK Drive, Fight, KPD
3:20 am, Belluvue Cr., Domestic, KPD
7:34 am, Hwy 35N, Med call, EMS, Coroner
9:41am, Lee St, Med call, EMS
11:53 am, Hwy 12E, Kosy, Disturbance, KPD
7:09 pm, AR 1137, Kosy, Med call, EMS
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Marcus D. Malone, 27, pleaded guilty in Attala County Circuit Court to a November 2016 double-murder of his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend in McAdams. He also pleaded guilty to the shooting of a third person, a woman, in the leg during the incident.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala has begun offering its first-ever on-site MRI services.
Those services will be provided via a mobile facility that Superior MRI Services of Batesville will bring to the local facility each Tuesday.
Mr. Rickie Price Odom, 61, formerly of Kosciusko, passed away October 10, 2018, in Brandon.
