The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department and the Department of Human Services are investigating a case in which a child suffered potentially life threatening injuries.
Deputies traveled the intersection at U.S. Highway 49 and Anding-Oil City Road Wednesday around 5 p.m. to block traffic so the helicopter could land to transport the child to University Medical Center in Jackson.
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StraughterBy JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

Many consumers today turn to the Internet for their shopping needs.
Purchasing a new pair of shoes, the latest technological gadget or trendy piece of art can be a mouse click away.
Nobody is more aware of that than local Mom-and-Pop shops and other local merchants.
And with no sales taxes collected on most online purchases, it’s not a level playing field for local businesses.  
However, there is legislation in the works that could protect local retailers as they continue to compete with online sales.
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By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

Yazoo City has two years to bring its fire protection up to the state’s requested requirements or it could lose its current fire rating.
The Mississippi State Rating Bureau recently visited with the Yazoo City Fire Department to review the city’s fire insurance grading classification.
“I thought they would send us out the door, but they didn’t,” said Mayor McArthur Straughter, during the Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting this week.
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Amanda Hodge was crowned Tri-County Academy’s 2012 homecoming queen by 2011 queen Brooke Seale. Pictured with Hodge are Headmaster Mark Johnson, her father, Charlie Hodge, flower girl Allie Bates and ringbearer Eli Tucker.