Curtis Richardson Posted: June 26, 2025 COLUMBUS — Curtis “Bruh” Richardson, 69, died June 19, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Providence M.B. Church ...

From the Opinion Page of The Dispatch, the hosts of this podcast debate and discuss local news for Columbus and Lowndes County, Mississippi.

William Cunningham Posted: July 2, 2025 ALICEVILLE, Ala. — William C. “W.C.” Cunningham, 75, died June 27, 2025, at Aliceville Manor Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday ...

Roy Whitehead Posted: June 30, 2025 COLUMBUS — Roy E. Whitehead, 82, died June 30, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by ...

Bobby Patrick Posted: June 30, 2025 COLUMBUS — Robert Alexander “Bobby” Patrick Jr., 78, died June 28, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m ...

For many, Christmas is a time of celebration, but for others, the season is filled with the pressure of trying to make ends meet.

Just an hour south of Starkville lies one of the greatest collections of country music artifacts in the world, a collection that will soon have a new museum thanks to a partnership with the ...

The sound of gears clicking and whirring echoed through the classroom as robot sisters Sammy and Kenzie took center stage on a distant planet.

Every year, roughly 230 of the state’s most gifted students flock to Columbus, prepared to take on the challenge of succeeding at Mississippi’s most academically rigorous high school.

A routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust Monday when Lowndes County sheriff’s deputies discovered 14 kilograms of illegal drugs.

MSU forwards Adia Symmonds, right, and Zoe Main, left, at the USWNT College Talent ID Camp in Atlanta this week. Main and her new freshman teammate are competing along with 40 other college ...

MSU hires Brian O’Connor as next head baseball coach O'Connor spent 20 years in charge of the Virginia Cavaliers, winning a national championship in 2015.