RIPLEY –The Tippah County Sheriff’s Department has arrested several people in connection with break-ins. Capsule summaries of each case: --James “Jay” Thomas of Ripley, 31, is charged with two cou...
Circuit Court
session begins
next week RIPLEY -- A regular two week term of Tippah County Circuit Court starts Monday, Feb. 6, at 9 a.m. at the Courthouse in Ripley. The following cases now pending on the docket are set for trial a...
One charged in Ripley
business break-in RIPLEY – Ripley police have arrested one man in connection with an early January burglary of a city business, Police Chief Scott White said this week. Randall Duncan, 22, of Ripley, is charged...
“Father Pete” is a familiar face around Ripley, coming as he does two Sundays a month from his home in Pontotoc to lead Spanish and English church services.
BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. – Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Jacob Will will perform a free recital at 7 p.m., Feb. 2 in the Berry Auditorium on the Blue Mountain College campus. ...
NEW ALBANY – Former Ripley High School teacher Melissa Mathis pled guilty in the Union County Courthouse Wednesday to one count of sexual battery on a minor, in connection with an improper relation...
RIPLEY – A Ripley police officer and his wife were charged with misdemeanor animal neglect Wednesday after Tippah authorities found two of the couple’s horses starving in a pasture. One of the two...
RIPLEY –Heavy recent rains combined with old pipes produced two breaks in the City of Ripley’s water pipeline infrastructure last week. City workers deliberately lowered water pressure to repair th...
Reuters - Lawyers for Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder in October by an Italian court, on Monday asked an appeals court there to overturn her slander conviction as well, a spokesman said.
Reuters - Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist at the center of a U.S. bribery scandal six years ago, said on Monday he does not want to publicly identify former associates because he does not want to see more people hurt.
Reuters - A federal judge has agreed that the man charged with a deadly shooting spree last year that gravely wounded then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has made "measureable progress" in regaining his mental fitness to stand trial.
Reuters - Lawyers for Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder in October by an Italian court, on Monday asked an appeals court there to overturn her slander conviction as well, a spokesman said.
Reuters - Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist at the center of a U.S. bribery scandal six years ago, said on Monday he does not want to publicly identify former associates because he does not want to see more people hurt.
Reuters - A federal judge has agreed that the man charged with a deadly shooting spree last year that gravely wounded then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has made "measureable progress" in regaining his mental fitness to stand trial.