WEST POINT — Christopher Jeffrey Kilgore, 54, died Jan. 13, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at St. Paul M.B. Church, with the Rev ...

WEST POINT — Stanley Wilson Scott, 67, died Jan. 17, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point. Funeral services are at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Jerry Brewer, 78, died Jan. 17, 2025, at Fayette Medical Center in Fayette, Alabama. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Dowdle Funeral Home, with Travis Brown and ...

WEST POINT — Jimmie Roy Perry, 67, died Jan. 4, 2025, in McDonough, Georgia. Funeral services were at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, at Una Community M. B. Church in Prairie ...

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, at Union Baptist M.B. Church, with the Rev. Therman Cunningham officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be two hours ...

If the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees approves the consolidation plan it is set to vote on Monday, the district will begin shifting to grade-span elementary campuses next ...

STARKVILLE — Bodies were diving on the floor amidst a mad scramble for the ball, and with Mississippi State out of sync, Ole Miss guard Sean Pedulla gained control and found a streaking Matthew ...

STARKVILLE — Retail development in the city is experiencing something of a real estate squeeze, with space running out around major hotspots and new properties along Highway 182 not quite ready ...

Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann believes Mississippi’s universities should be “selling what people want to buy,” even if that means cutting unpopular classes. Hosemann told The Dispatch Jan. 6 he ...

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Sometimes writing my weekend columns takes me on a winding, twisting journey of seemingly unrelated connections that wind up being a tangled web. That was the case this weekend. My research began ...