Jeff Byrd

The Greenwood Housing Authority is looking for a new director. The current director, Gregory Flippins, is resigning. His last day will be Jan. 31 after 30 years of service, said Emily Roush-Elliott, chairman of the Greenwood Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. Flippins declined to speak about his resignation or his time with the Greenwood Housing Authority. Roush-Elliott praised...

The Greenwood City Council approved one new appointment and nine reappointments to the city’s planning commission and tourism commission. The council approved the appointment of Maggie Joe Ellis to the Planning Commission 6-0, with Council President Ronnie Stevenson abstaining. The council approved the reappointment of Allison Pillow and Tony Roberts to the Planning Commission and sev...

Greenwood police have identified two suspects in last week’s burglary of a Domino’s restaurant, Chief Terrence Craft said. More than $1,300 was taken from the safe at the Domino’s on U.S. 82 early that morning. “We could issue warrants soon,” Craft said. “We know two subjects entered through the side door after breaking the glass window in the front. They then knew the code to the saf...

OXFORD — John Coleman, the disgraced president of defunct Express Grain Terminals, has pleaded guilty to one federal count of wire fraud for his role in cheating farmers and other creditors out of millions of dollars.

The welfare fraud trial for the former owner of a Greenwood day care has been continued until Dec. 2. Towanda Ware is being charged with four counts of welfare fraud and three counts of false representation. Ware was accused by the state of receiving more than $441,000 in voucher payments for children who did not attend Bright Beginnings Day Care between January 2017 and December 201...

Eric Hopkins from Greenwood Utilities works Wednesday to disconnect a power line from a utility pole that snapped in two on the southern edge of Whittington Park during Tuesday’s storm. Assisting him is fellow lineman Jake Liddell. A row of five poles broke from the force of the winds, which reached more than 50 miles an hour in Greenwood, according to the National Weather Service. (By Tim Kalich, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)

Republican voters will head back to the polls Tuesday to decide who will face U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson in November’s general election. Neither Ron Eller nor Andrew Scott Smith reached the 50%-plus-one majority in the March 12 primary for the 2nd Congressional District seat. “This primary runoff is for those Republican voters who voted in the March 12 primary or those who did not...

The real estate developer that wants to turn the old Antoon Dry Goods Building into apartments is preparing for the next step in getting the city of Greenwood’s approval for its plan. Meanwhile, the one dissenting vote on the city’s Planning Commission continues to express reservations about the downtown project and how it was rushed through that regulatory body. Chartre Consulting of...

John Coleman, the former president of the defunct company Express Grain Terminals, has pleaded guilty to state charges in a scheme to defraud farmers and other creditors who did business with the storage and processing facilities he operated in Leflore County.

Demarcus Peeples, also known as Delo Brown, was nominated in 2023 as the Male Mississippi Entertainer of the Year by the Best of Mississippi Awards. The former law enforcement officer from Carroll County is now a budding actor working for Tyler Perry’s Production Company in Atlanta with two credits under his belt.