WEST POINT — Christopher Lamont Key, 52, died Nov. 20, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Zion Springs M.B. Church in Okolona, with ...

Annie Dobbs knew something was wrong when she didn’t hear from her daughter Nashieka “Shieka” Dobbs for a few days. “If she’d go out and stay, even two days, she’d call me,” Annie Dobbs told The ...

NOXUBEE COUNTY — Bruce Cunningham, 61, died Nov. 25, 2025. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.

TIBBEE — Katia Williamson, 50, died Nov. 22, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel, with James Towery ...

A Columbus man has been charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend, Neshieka Dobbs, according to a Columbus Police Department press release. Jamar Hughes, 40, was detained for questioning ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own ...

MACON — Gary Lois Higginbotham, 81, died Nov. 17, 2025, at his daughter’s residence in Starkville. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Cockrell Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Salem ...

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STARKVILLE – The Mississippi State defense was reeling, but had seemingly done just enough damage control to keep from collapsing before halftime. No. 5 Georgia was up 17-7 with 30 seconds to play in ...

With the shuttering of Franklin Academy earlier this year, Columbus Municipal School District trustees must decide what comes next for the property. Ideas for the property, which has housed a school ...

STARKVILLE – The sense of disbelief in Davis Wade Stadium had given way to frustration by the time Mississippi State faced a 4th and 20 in overtime. Quarterback Blake Shapen threw his arms up as a ...

STARKVILLE – Heritage Academy head coach Tobias Smith admitted when he first got to the school he didn’t quite understand just how real its rivalry with Starkville Academy was. He started to ...