Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Stephen Chapel M.B. Church in Columbus, with Claude Long officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Friday, ...

The city council on Tuesday hired a Gadsden, Alabama-based company to manage the Sen. Terry Brown Amphitheater and tapped a downtown company to give the facility’s marketing some local flavor. The ...

Frances Earline Jourdan Howell passed away on July 18, 2026, at her home in Starkville, Mississippi. She was surrounded by her family that cared for her until the end. She graduated from Brooksville ...

Having grown up in West Point, Bruce Simpson was tired of driving down Main Street to see door after door of downtown buildings closed. Now Old Growth Holdings, a company Simpson founded with two ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol in a way that’s previously only been available with expensive, injectable ...

STARKVILLE – Authorities have identified the man allegedly killed by his roommate Tuesday in their residence. In a text to The Dispatch on Wednesday, Oktibbeha County Coroner Michael Hunt identified ...

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, at First Baptist Church in Horn Lake. Visitation will be 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the church. Lowndes Funeral Home and Crematory of Columbus is in charge of ...

In a change of command ceremony in Hanger 2 at Columbus Air Force Base, presided over by Brig. Gen. Travolis Simmons, commander of the 19th Air Force, Col. James Blech – having completed his 2-year ...

1st Lt. Jeffrey Northcutt, an instructor pilot at Columbus Air Force Base, teaches Jude Taylor, 10, about the T-6 Texan II Saturday at Freedom Fest. As part of the festivities, the base had five ...

Golden Triangle Regional Airport is looking to shore up a $300,000 subsidy to support the second year of westbound flights to Dallas/Fort Worth. For Columbus’ $75,000 share of that subsidy, Mayor ...

Two men are behind bars following their arrests for unrelated alleged assaults, including a shooting that left a 20-year-old man injured. Kameron Coffey, 17, is charged with aggravated assault, a ...

We’re getting a little taste of the West Coast right here in the Golden Triangle. Wolf Provisions, a new mobile food concept, is officially opening in the Columbus area. Zachary’s head chef Alex ...