DeSoto County's population and housing market have experienced significant growth in recent years. Southaven leads the county in new home construction, with over 2,000 homes built in the past five ...

The Mississippi Senate passed a redistricting plan that would call for 10 special elections in November, four of which would be in DeSoto County. The plan still has to be approved by both the full ...

DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. - The DeSoto County District Attorney announced the convictions of two corrupt public officials Monday. One is a former officer with the Southaven Police Department (SPD ...

DESOTO CO., Miss. (WMC) - DeSoto County is taking action against the state over its redistricting plan. The map creates one new majority-Black district each in DeSoto County and Forrest County, with ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man has been sentenced to 25 years for a DeSoto County crime spree, DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton said. Lamottis Simms Jr., 20, was convicted for his ...

DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. - Authorities identified a DeSoto County deputy who was injured after a wrong-way driver crashed into him Tuesday night. According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP ...

Deputies responded to the scene just off State Road 17 and Martin Luther King Jr. Street, where they found a person who had been stabbed. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Nearly two ...

HERNANDO, Miss. (WTVA) — A DeSoto County sheriff’s deputy is recovering after intentionally crashing into another vehicle to stop a wrong-way driver. The crash happened on Tuesday night, March 4 on ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The DeSoto County District Attorney had strong words on Monday after announcing the indictment of a former elected official and a former Southaven police officer. “I am not ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A DeSoto County deputy bravely chose to keep people safe, even if it meant putting his life on the line. “Sadly, he took the brunt of that impact head on,” Sheriff Thomas E.