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We contacted the airport tower to see if someone could explain the lights but have not heard back from anyone. So far, we have not been able to speak to anyone with the FAA to find out if there were any drones in the area. The Southaven Police Department told us they had not received any calls about the lights. Memphis Police have not gotten back to us. The time stamp on David Howell’s cell phone shows the video was captured just after 10 p.m. “I can’t believe nobody else got video or called and said, hey, we see something....

Trump Rally tonight!!

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - Mississippi's special U.S. Senate election will get national attention as President Donald Trump holds a Mid-South rally Tuesday at the Landers Center in Southaven. President Trump is stumping for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. She's running in November to serve the final two years of retired Senator Thad Cochran's term. Thousands of rally attendees will make their way into the Landers Center for Trump's second visit to Mississippi since his inauguration. “Oh man, we're excited! We are ready for the locals to see the President,” says John Caldwell with the DeSoto County Republican Party. "He won't feel...

Southaven, MS) The longest serving mayor of Southaven is out and Republican Darren Musslewhite is in after winning nearly 80 percent of the vote. To a round of applause he arrived as city hall tonight as the mayor elect of Southaven. “I’ve got to get to work. I have a new job I’m anxious to get together with the new board and get the process going,” Musselwhite said. The insurance agency owner said Mayor Greg Davis called him Tuesday night to concede and assured him that he will help with the transition. “He was very kind and said he would...

Johnny Peel's Wednesday morning commute turned into a rescue mission that could've been on reality television. Peel, 22, was headed from home in Sardis, Miss., to his job as a mechanic in Bartlett about 8 a.m. when he saw a man on a mechanic's wheeled creeper underneath a moving SUV along Interstate 55 near the Goodman Road exit in Southaven. Inside the moving SUV were two children. The rest is a rescue story not to be believed. Peel rescued Robert Finney, 48, of Hernando, and his two sons, ages 7 and 9, just moments before their Mitsubishi Montero would have...