Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Stephen Chapel M.B. Church in Columbus, with Claude Long officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Friday, ...

The city council on Tuesday hired a Gadsden, Alabama-based company to manage the Sen. Terry Brown Amphitheater and tapped a downtown company to give the facility’s marketing some local flavor. The ...

Frances Earline Jourdan Howell passed away on July 18, 2026, at her home in Starkville, Mississippi. She was surrounded by her family that cared for her until the end. She graduated from Brooksville ...

Having grown up in West Point, Bruce Simpson was tired of driving down Main Street to see door after door of downtown buildings closed. Now Old Growth Holdings, a company Simpson founded with two ...

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, at Otts Funeral Home, with Steven Sanderson officiating. Burial will follow at Wofford Cemetery. Otts Funeral Home of Sulligent, Alabama, is in charge of ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol in a way that’s previously only been available with expensive, injectable ...

STARKVILLE – Authorities have identified the man allegedly killed by his roommate Tuesday in their residence. In a text to The Dispatch on Wednesday, Oktibbeha County Coroner Michael Hunt identified ...

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, at First Baptist Church in Horn Lake. Visitation will be 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the church. Lowndes Funeral Home and Crematory of Columbus is in charge of ...

Police Chief Joseph Daughtry is taking a $14,000 pay cut to fill the same position in Yazoo City. Yazoo City aldermen unanimously hired Daughtry during their meeting Monday, offering him a salary of ...

In a change of command ceremony in Hanger 2 at Columbus Air Force Base, presided over by Brig. Gen. Travolis Simmons, commander of the 19th Air Force, Col. James Blech – having completed his 2-year ...

Former city of Columbus grant writer/administrator Susan Wilder has been hired as director of development and philanthropic strategy for The Dispatch. Her first day will be July 20. In this newly ...

There will be no services at this time. Lowndes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrangements. Mr. White was born Feb. 19, 1965, in Watervliet, Michigan, to the late Sharon Parks Franklin and ...