OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – Three current employees and two former employees in the Oktibbeha County Tax Assessor and Collector’s Office could be on the hook for more than $31,000 after an investigation by the ...

STARKVILLE – Phillips Wealth Planners, a registered investment adviser firm, announced recently Lynn Phillips-Gaines and Lauren Black were honored with Forbes’ Best-in-State Wealth Advisors award.

STARKVILLE — A Starkville man was arrested Monday for allegedly placing a hidden recording device inside his own home to surveil someone else without their knowledge. Scott Gronewold, 50, is charged ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world largest aircraft carrier, returned home to Virginia on Saturday after an 11-month deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War, that saw it support ...

James Wayne Gibson was born July 23, 1938, and passed peacefully from this life on May 16, 2026, at Hospice House in Mountain Home AR. Wayne was most famously known in his home town of Columbus, MS ...

STARKVILLE – A man is in custody following an alleged Sunday morning break-in and assault on Peoples Street. Blair Bell, 35, turned himself in to police Monday and is charged with domestic violence ...

VERNON, Ala. — Barron Todd Patrick, 58, died May 16, 2026. Funeral services will be at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, at Chandler Funeral Home Chapel, with Brandon Phillips officiating. Burial will follow at ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Sam Langford Jr., 84, died May 16, 2026, at Prisma Health Blount Hospital in Maryville, Tennessee. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Memorial Funeral Home and ...

Clarence Carter, the blues and soul musician and singer-songwriter with the raspy, emotional vocals whose hits included the ...

WEST POINT – Frank Albert Anderson, 77, died May 4, 2026, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at St. Paul M.B. Church, with Eddie A. Longstreet officiating.

LOWNDES COUNTY – Gregory “Black Boy” Roby, 46, died May 7, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at New Vision School in Macon, ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – An Ethel man died in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday morning on Highway 12. Marvin Graham, 54, was driving east on Highway 12 near Smith Road at about 6 a.m. when a second vehicle ...