Mississippi State announced the death of former All-SEC pitcher Caleb Reed on Wednesday. Reed was 35 years old. According to a GoFundMe page created by his friends and family, Reed was diagnosed with ...

When Caitlyn Wooten first tried Pilates in 2023, a couple of months after giving birth to her son, Taylor, she wasn’t looking to bounce back into her pre-baby body. She just wanted to find herself ...

STARKVILLE – An Oktibbeha County sheriff’s deputy was fired following a Sunday afternoon brawl with an umpire during a Grand Slam baseball tournament at Cornerstone Park. Lt. Darrell Holley, a coach ...

There will be no services at this time. Lowndes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Pannell was born Feb. 19, 1953, in Alabama, to the late Walton Pannell and Eloise Pannell. In ...

ALICEVILLE, Ala. — Lydia B. Walker Hughes, 95, died April 30, 2026, at her daughter’s residence in Ellenwood, Georgia. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at First Baptist Church. Burial will ...

Sylvia Shelton White, 68, of Millport, Alabama, passed away on May 4, 2026. Sylvia was born on March 22, 1958, in Columbus, Mississippi, to the late Revis and Betty Shelton. She spent her life working ...

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, at Macedonia M.B. Church, with Terry Lee Rice Jr. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation was from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

Severe winter weather left most of the Golden Triangle unscathed this weekend, while other parts of the state have dealt with large-scale power outages, falling debris and iced over roads. An extreme ...

COLUMBUS — Under a new state law, military families in Columbus have more flexibility when it comes to deciding where their kids will go to school. The law, which went into effect July 1, allows ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – A former Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District teacher was convicted Wednesday of three counts of touching a child for lustful purposes. A jury found Kelvin Lamar ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence rose modestly in April despite growing anxiety over soaring energy prices brought on by the war in Iran. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2% pace from January through March after recovering from last fall’s 43-day federal government shutdown. But the ...