STARKVILLE – Panhandling will no longer be allowed after dark in Starkville, following the board of aldermen’s unanimous vote Tuesday evening to add a nighttime ban to the city’s solicitation ...

STARKVILLE – Aspiring and current secondary math educators from Mississippi State University and Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District’s Partnership Middle School are engaging in ...

Supervisors tabled consideration of a new ordinance that would make short-term rentals in the county subject to the 2% hotel tax. Along with the tax, the ordinance, based on one the Columbus City ...

Tests of ByHeart infant formula tied to a botulism outbreak that has sickened dozens of babies showed that all of the company’s products may have been contaminated. Laboratory tests of 36 samples of ...

Starting in the new year, new phone numbers in the 662 area code will start with 471 following an all services area code overlay approved by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. A number overlay ...

COLUMBUS — Tommie Lee Deloach, 57, died Nov. 20, 2025. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at Carter’s Funeral Service Chapel, with the Rev. Jeremiah Gardner officiating. Burial will follow at ...

Ronald Leigh Williams, 78, of Maben, Mississippi, passed away on November 19, 2025, at home on his beloved farm. A celebration of life service will take place on December 12, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. at ...

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Piney Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday and one hour prior to services at the funeral ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Laura Mae Martin Cole, 69, died Nov. 9, 2025. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Pleasant Grove Full Gospel Baptist Church in Columbus, with Timothy Bourne ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Johnnie Ray McCloud, 62, died Nov. 27, 2025, in Omaha, Nebraska. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tabernacle M.B. Church in Macon. Burial will follow at Hall Cemetery.

COLUMBUS — Gregory L. Virgil Sr., 58, died Nov. 30, 2025, at Oktibbeha County Hospital in Starkville. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, at 15th Street Church of God in Christ, with Terry ...

WEST POINT — Glenda Denise Dean, 56, died Nov. 21, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Fresh Church, with Alex Jackson Sr. officiating ...