More than a dozen people are spending their Saturday morning making purple bows to be placed on mailboxes.
The Attala County School Board Monday night approved a new postsecondary education program for special needs students.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Activities for 2020
The Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System (MMRLS), based at the Attala County Library in Kosciusko, has unveiled a new logo for 2020, representing the first significant change in the library branding since the system’s founding over 60 years ago.
Roland Mitchell Dampeer, 28, has been identified as the suspect in yesterday's attempted kidnapping inside the Sunflower grocery store and the subsequeant shooting of a rural postal worker delivering mail in the Hesterville community.
The United States Postal Inspection Service is seeking information about the shooting of a rural postal delivery person in Hesterville yesterday afternoon.
The female victim of a shooting incident near Highway 35 in the Hesterville area of Attala County is being treated at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, as is the suspect.
District Attorney Doug Evans has voluntarily recused himself from the future prosecution of Curtis Giovanni Flowers, and he has asked the court to appoint the Mississippi Attorney General’s office as lead prosecutor on the case.
The Attala County Board of Supervisors began the new year Monday with three new people stepping into roles previously held by the same individuals for many years — Chancery Clerk Taylor Casey, District 2 Supervisor Billy Joe Coffee and District 4 Supervisor Willie Perteet.
Although the National Weather Service has verified that three EF-1 tornadoes hit Attala County late in the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 29, there was no loss of life, and most damage was limited to trees and outbuildings.
