UMADAOP, 400 Bowman St., Mansfield -- Police received a call Monday about a former employee possibly misappropriating funds.

Voters in parts of DeSoto and Webster parishes will be going to the polls Oct. 17 to decide on three tax renewals.

MANSFIELD - Mansfield aldermen on Monday gave the go ahead for engineers to proceed with a water improvement project that taxpayers started paying for last year.

A 19-year-old woman told police Sunday night when she awoke, she was naked. She said a 41-year-old man was lying next to her, also naked.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has denied a writ of review from the Mansfield man accused in the stabbing death of South Mansfield Mayor Dessie Lee Patterson who wants his trial moved to another location.

Clinton Nelson's last name and Cory Rubio's first name are incorrect in photos on 1A of Thursday's Times.

Clinton Nelson's last name and Cory Rubio's first name are incorrect in photos on 1A of Thursday's Times.

Residents of DeSoto's Janear Circle finally have been heard. Parish industrial district commissioners will not market a 300-acre tract in the rural neighborhood to consultants seeking to locate a proposed correctional facility.

Keatchie and history are synonymous. The small town in northwest DeSoto promotes its more than century-old churches, homes and cemeteries.

MANSFIELD - DeSoto Parish Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of a Mansfield woman accused of passing several hot checks at local businesses using another person's account.

NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors' winners in the annual competition for news stories, editorials, photos, graphics and headlines published by AP member newspapers in Louisiana and Mississippi during 2008.

MANSFIELD - The DeSoto Parish Police Jury is willing to take its show on the road.

MANSFIELD -- DeSoto Parish Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of Don O. Pennington, featured as this week's Felon of the Week.