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Union County E-911 calls from Dec. 28-Jan. 3

  (Does not include 11 traffic stops and medical and coroner calls) Monday, Dec. 28: 3:06 a.m. – Caller on CR 251 reported a dark gray small car in caller’s yard. Wants someone to check them out. Address in Lee Co. 5:39 a.m. – Caller on CR 165 advised a black male walking around in […]

Watson will lead board of supervisors this coming year

District 5 Supervisor Steve Watson will preside over the Union County Board of Supervisors for the coming year. District 2 Supervisor Chad Coffey will be vice-president. The change came Monday at the board’s first meeting of the year. The board traditionally elected a president for the full four-year term for many years but when this […]

Sheriff’s deputy injured going from one wreck to another

Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards said one of his deputies, Tanner Golding, was slightly injured leaving one accident scene and responding to another about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. “He was at a wreck on Hwy. 30 West and handed it over to the Highway Patrol when they gave out another wreck on 178 at Myrtle,” the […]

Baptist Union County Nationally Recognized with an ‘A’ for the Fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade

New Albany, Miss., January 4, 2021– Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County was awarded an ‘A’ in the fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade a national distinction recognizing achievements in protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety […]

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What hath Trump wrought?   

  Today, for the first time in history, an armed mob, one specifically incited by the President of the United States, stormed the U.S. Capitol building. The last time the Capitol building was attacked was by a leftist outfit calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit. At 11 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 7, 1983, the ARU […]

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Officials exhausting options in search for woman missing in Tallahatchie river bottom

  Twenty-eight-year-old Jessica Stacks of the Harmony community still had not been found late Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 5, Sheriff Jimmy Edwards said. She was reported missing somewhere along the Tallahatchie River Friday, Jan. 1, in a case that has drawn considerable public interest. The Union County Sheriff’s Department learned she was missing about 10 p.m. […]