The weekend was filled with chaos and bloodshed in Yazoo City as three separate shootings left two men dead and others injured.
Mark S. Roby, 58, died October 18, 2019 at his home in Yazoo City.
Funeral services were Monday at Glenwood Cemetery. Burial followed under the direction of Stricklin-King Funeral Home.
The city of Yazoo City joined forces with a state collection agency to begin the process of collecting over a million dollars owed to the city in debt fees.
An attempted robbery led one juvenile to confessing to another armed robbery within Yazoo City. And his alleged adult accomplice landed in jail alongside him this week.
The city of Yazoo City will be hit with a surprise bill for an election because the city council appointed the county circuit clerk to a municipal board.
City leaders selected their new election commissioners in preparation for the special election to be held next month for the board’s vacant alderman post.
Sharon Sue McAllister, 69, of the Bee Lake Community in Holmes County passed away at her home on Friday October 11, 2019.
Mrs. McCallister was a homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal church.
Marjorie R. Smith, 95, of Yazoo City passed away at Martha Coker Green House Homes.
Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church.
Joe Terrell Tenhet, 58, of Memphis, TN, passed away on Friday, October 4, 2019, at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, due to a brain aneurysm suffered on October 1.
Mary Ellen Lowery, 62, of Yazoo City passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, October 12, 2019. She was raised in Holly Bluff, having been born on May 31, 1957.
