The Mission participant Jason Timmons returns a ball volleyed at him by Charlie May during a game of pickleball on Thursday at the rehabilitation center. Volunteers with the Starkville Pickleball ...

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MACON — Mary Hopkins, 95, died June 21, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at New Hope U.M Church, with Kory Bridges officiating. Burial will follow at the ...

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, July 12 ...

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

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

Keith Gaskin did not want to run for a second term as mayor. Apparently, that does not mean he wants out of city politics. Gaskin, 60, qualified as an independent to run for the Ward 1 council ...

Reese is coming off of another week of postseason honors, earning All-American recognition from the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings. He was also named a First Team All-American ...

Four West Point residents have been arrested in connection to a Wednesday night shooting that injured two young men, leaving one of them in critical condition.

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.

Li-ya Wilson, left, and Darien Hardy control their robots Iris and Lloyd as teacher assistant Kenna Henkel plays the characters’ pre-recorded lines from her laptop. A sound-system malfunction ...

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