Residents of the Downtown Historic District began receiving letters recently from the city’s building department reminding them of what changes to their property require prior approval. For most, the ...

STARKVILLE — Terry Abel, a two-time graduate of Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering, has received NASA’s prestigious Silver Snoopy award, an honor given to employees and contractors for ...

Mississippi University for Women has received a $140,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Education through its Mississippi Teacher Residency program, covering tuition, books and fees for 10 ...

COLUMBUS – You could say Timothy Bourne and education have always had the right chemistry together. After all, it was chemistry that got his career bubbling in the classroom. Bourne has been at the ...

A while back I was rummaging through my closet off the bedroom, probably to find something that wasn’t a black T-shirt to wear that day, when I came across a shirt that seemed familiar but it looked ...

This is the second in a series of local columns that seek to defend higher education against recent political attacks. Since 2015, both Gallup and the Pew Research Center have documented a significant ...

DALLAS — Susan G. Komen, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, completed its own analysis comparing the disparity in mortality rates in 2014 and 2023 between Black women and white women with ...

For the past seven years, 81-year-old Rayness Tulipan has been helping to make the dead rise at the Columbus Fairgrounds during the Community Benefit Committee’s annual haunted house. Over time, he ...

In a makeshift studio Friday morning inside the Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome Center, Isabel Candelario Vanegas told the story of what America means to her. She was 15 when she moved from Oaxaca ...

ATLANTA — An eighth body has been discovered at the site of a fiery Georgia highway crash between a semitrailer and van, Deputy Jackson County Coroner Dean Stringer said Tuesday. The victims were ...

Golden Triangle travelers have another chance this month to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration PreCheck program. Golden Triangle Regional Airport will host another PreCheck ...

COLUMBUS — David Searcy Baucom Sr., 80, died Oct. 13, 2025, in Columbus. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Memorial Funeral Home and Crematory.