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 ...

STARKVILLE — Delores Elane Bradford Gibson, 85, died Oct. 9, 2025. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Peters Rock C.O.G.I.C. Visitation is from 3-6 p.m. Thursday at West Memorial Funeral ...

Elena “Jane” Norma Brown, 71, of Columbus, MS, passed away Monday, October 13, 2025, at her residence. Visitation will be Thursday, October 16, 2025, from 5:00 P ...

VERNON, Ala. — Jerry D. Robertson, 78, died Oct. 13, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, at First Baptist Church in Vernon, with Joe Beckon ...

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 ...

Terriaua Ickom, left, trades trinkets with Marz Bennett on Saturday during the Harvest Market in Columbus. Bennett told The Dispatch she frequently brings trinkets – small, inexpensive and sometimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Old Waverly Club announced the reopening of its Mossy Oak Golf Course on Thursday, reintroducing one of the top-rated courses in Mississippi after a redesign spearheaded by former U.S. Open ...

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 ...