Mississippi State baseball began its 2026 SEC campaign on the road last weekend, facing both one of the toughest opponents and environments in the conference in No. 4 Arkansas. The Razorbacks took the ...

Brooks Pope inspects the inside of Ellis Lachney’s 1967 Chevy Nova on Saturday at the New Hope Festival car show at New Hope High School. Lachney said he purchased the car in 2012 and has made ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren has got it exactly right, and we should heed her warning against getting bogged down in another forever war like Afghanistan and Iraq! Let’s not forget that this war was ...

From left, culinary arts instructor Victoria Richardson shows senior Anna Sandlin how to zest an orange at Lowndes County School District’s Career Technology Center. Recently named Mississippi’s ...

STARKVILLE – Work to extend sewer service to the final portions of areas annexed into the city nearly three decades ago could begin next year after the city secured a $700,000 Community Development ...

On March 4, The Commercial Dispatch reported that the Columbus-Lowndes Airport had received a $15,000 America250 Legacy grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council to help develop a museum at the ...

Officials are trying to determine a cause of death after the skeletal remains of a man were identified as those of a Columbus man who had gone missing. Derek Gray, 51, was reported missing in August ...

STARKVILLE – Mississippi State softball evened its SEC series with No. 1 Tennessee on Saturday after another pitching duel between the respective teams’ aces. A record crowd of 2,134 witnessed a ...

COLUMBUS — Virginia Loftis Kerr, 82, died March 15, 2026, at Windsor Nursing and Rehab. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Memorial ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Martha Beard-Blanton, 73, died March 15, 2026, at her residence. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Dowdle Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Ebenezer Cemetery. Visitation ...

Lynda Earse Woodruff, 81, passed away March 14, 2026 at her home in Madison, AL, after a courageous battle with cancer. Born October 28, 1944, Lynda was the third of 5 children of parents Hutchie and ...

WEST POINT — Janie White Reynolds, 91, died March 15, 2026, in Corinth. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, at Calvert Funeral Home, with Karl Novak and Jon Haimes officiating. Graveside ...