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As cold as the January weather has been, the December warm weather was more extreme.  The recent lows in the mid teens don’t ...

Interstate 55 was shut down Wednesday afternoon after Winter Storm Fern coated north Mississippi in ice and snow, with ...

Gerard Edic joined The Greenwood Commonwealth in July as our new reporter covering stories of public safety, including ...

The winter weather has played havoc with the local prep schedules. The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District’s three schools — Greenwood High, Amanda Elzy and Leflore County — will not be ...

Gerard Edic joined The Greenwood Commonwealth in July as our new reporter covering stories of public safety, including connections to gun violence, poverty, health and education systems. His news ...

Mississippi’s fourth victim in the recent severe winter storm  was a resident of Leflore County. Gov. Tate Reeves made the announcement Tuesday on his official Facebook page.

A 20-year-old Sidon man has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault and drive-by shooting in an incident last ...

There are few things that can create as much beauty and misery as an ice storm. Ice-encased tree branches offer a stunning landscape of crystal, but the weight of that same ice causes those branches ...

I want to bring up a subject that I have been talking about for years now, but nobody seems to want to pay any attention.

James Frederick Polk, 59, of Cordova, Tennessee, passed away on Jan. 20, 2026, at Baptist East in Memphis, surrounded by ...

The Mississippi National Guard (MSNG) activated 500 service members across the state to conduct general support, fueling ...