Authorities have released the identity of the 16-year-old accused of being involved in the Tuesday drive-by shooting at the Greentree Apartments in East Columbus. Ethan Hines faces charges of drive-by ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — As consumers worry about medication costs, states are trying to lower drug prices by reining in big companies that oversee prescription coverage for health insurers. Some of those ...

Khadijah Farrakhan, longtime wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died Saturday, the Nation of Islam has announced. She was 90. “Mother Khadijah” worked alongside her provocative and ...

HAMILTON — J.W. Lowe, 89, died July 2, 2026, in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, at Hopewell M.B. Church, with Terry Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.

After more than two decades away, Hanna Raskin is returning to the city where her career as a journalist first began. And where she was arrested. Raskin, a former Dispatch reporter turned full-time ...

After hosting a successful tournament on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in April, Bassmaster is planning another national tournament to take place in Columbus next year. The tournament, scheduled ...

STARKVILLE – The new Starkville High School project now has a price tag and a bond issue to match. During its regular meeting Tuesday at the Greensboro Center, the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated ...

To anyone in Columbus for the last 49 years, the giant building at 1404 Old Aberdeen Road has always been Leigh Mall. But the Hull Property Group, which bought the mall in 2019 with the goal of ...

STARKVILLE – An Oktibbeha County sheriff’s deputy was fired following a Sunday afternoon brawl with an umpire during a Grand Slam baseball tournament at Cornerstone Park. Lt. Darrell Holley, a coach ...

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Mississippi State may be traveling nearly 1,900 miles from Starkville for the NCAA regionals in Palo Alto, California, but the Bulldogs’ head coach will be just a 30-minute drive from her hometown.

The man who is reportedly the richest oligarch in Russia — and the target of numerous international sanctions because of his country’s recent invasion of Ukraine — played an important role in one of ...