WATER VALLEY – Saturday’s Ole Miss football game was a sell-out, the seventh largest crowd ever at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford with the University of Mississippi reported 64,425 people in attendance. The big game also marked a busy weekend on the Hwy. 7 bypass in Water Valley as police officers issued 52 traffic citations from…

Thousands of hunters will take to the woods across the state Saturday as the anticipated gun season for whitetail deer opens. The season marks the third since Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first detected in Mississippi in February, 2018, bringing a change in regulations and concern for the risk of human consumption for deer that…

WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Police Department conducted a traffic patrol saturation from Friday, Nov. 5, through Sunday, Nov. 7, that resulted in 42 traffic citations, two DUI arrests and one felony arrest. Water Valley Police Chief Jason Mangrum reported the city-wide detail was conducted to help curtail driving infractions and combat drunk driving.…

WATER VALLEY – A Water Valley podiatrist who practices in Oxford has been charged in an 11-count indictment for allegedly running a five-year scheme to defraud health care benefit programs including Medicare by submitting over $11 million in false claims for medically unnecessary medications and ordering medically unnecessary testing in exchange for kickbacks and bribes.…

WATER VALLEY – A Duck Hill man faces felony charges after fleeing from law enforcement during the early morning hours Saturday. Water Valley Police Chief Jason Mangrum reported Christopher Young, Jr., 20, was charged with felony fleeing, reckless driving, DUI and resisting arrest following a brief pursuit that ended in Lafayette County. The chief reported…

WATER VALLEY – Rhonda Burchett will take office early as the new Position 5 Water Valley School District board member. School board members appointed Burchett during the October 25 meeting to fill a vacancy following the resignation of Chris Terry, who stepped down at an earlier meeting after he moved out of the district he…

WATER VALLEY – The Yalobusha County Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of three trail cameras for use by Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks conservation officer Austin Tallent to help combat illegal dumping. Tallent made the request at the recessed meeting on Oct. 25, explaining that the $100 cameras will send pictures directly…