MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father’s Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — but was turned down.
Junior guard Andy Winters (Columbus/Bishop Watterson) scored 6 points down the stretch, including a basket that put Ohio Wesleyan ahead to stay, as the Bishops wiped out a 10-point deficit to defeat Rhodes 74–65 in the championship game of the Rhodes Thanksgiving Classic on Saturday in Memphis, Tenn.
A federal magistrate on Friday set an Aug. 6 trial date for two Louisiana prison inmates charged in Mississippi in the murder of a Sunbury businessman.
Harold H. Hayes, 95, of Marion and a former 42-year resident of North Franklin Street in Delaware, passed away Wednesday (Oct. 5, 2001) at home.
Chris “Buzzard” Morris, 44, of Powell, died Saturday (May 7, 2011) at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Thunder roared and tornado warning sirens blared, and all emergency workers in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff could do Monday was hope the saturated levee holding back the Black River would survive yet another downpour.
Confirming his family’s worst fears, a Sunbury man was found dead behind an Alabama motel on Thursday, authorities said. The Jefferson County (Ala.) coroner completed an autopsy and officials announced at a news conference that the body discovered around 11 a.m. Thursday was identified as David M. Cupps, 53, according to NBC4.