On Saturday, Wright Thompson will deliver the keynote address for the Possumtown Book Fest at the Rosenzweig Arts Center’s Omnova Theatre, and the timing ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue of growing national concern.

Chris Curtis, owner of the Blue Moon Drive-In Theatre, holds his grandson, Christopher Henderson, 1, behind the concession stand counter Thursday morning. The drive-in, located in Gu-Win, Alabama ...

An inmate at Lowndes County Adult Detention Center died Sunday evening after suffering a “catastrophic medical event.” Sammy Harris, 44, was being taken from one cell to another on a higher ...

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

MSU pitcher Caleb Reed during the 2011 season at Dudy Noble Field in Starkville. Reed, 35, passed away this week after a battle with cancer. (Photo courtesy of MSU Athletics) ...

University of Mississippi Medical Center have identified the three crew members who died in a helicopter crash Monday near Natchez Trace Parkway in northern Madison County.

Exchange Club of Columbus president Matt Brown, left, and member Ralph Null, right, present Josie Shumake, center, with a plaque dubbing her the 2021 Book of Golden Deeds awardee. Each year a ...

The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, according to people ...

When Anna Pugh arrived in Starkville as an undergraduate anthropology student in 2023, she didn’t know much about Brush Arbor cemetery. To her surprise, the people she met who had lived in ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State women’s basketball learned its Southeastern Conference opponents for the 2025-26 season, a slate that once again features matchups against some of the strongest ...

In 2019, Jessica Graves was working on her doctorate in agricultural sciences at Mississippi State University when she felt called to make a difference on malnutrition and food insecurity ...