Only one candidate submitted qualifying paperwork for an elected Columbus Municipal School District board seat ahead of Thursday’s 5 p.m. deadline.

A boutique hotel and new home for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library will anchor a planned 15-acre development between the Cotton District and Mississippi State University.

Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday.

CARROLTON, Ala. — Annie “Blue” Bell Hall died Aug. 19, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at Miles Chapel ...

Tommy Patterson Jr. Posted: August 21, 2025 STARKVILLE — Tommie Patterson Jr., 70, died July 28, 2025, in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. at New Prairie Grove M.B. Church. Burial ...

Ebony Morris Posted: August 21, 2025 WEST POINT — Ebony Rena Morris, 42, died Aug. 7, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at ...

James Gaston Posted: August 20, 2025 MACON — James Gaston, 75, died Aug. 16, 2025, at his residence. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Macon is in ...

Cora Richardson Posted: August 21, 2025 COLUMBUS — Cora Bell Richardson, 87, died Aug. 13, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at ...

Mary Trimble Posted: August 21, 2025 COLUMBUS — Mary Jame Trimble, 62, died Aug. 14, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, at Miracle ...

John Ryan Booth, age 78, of Steens, MS, passed away August 20, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be Saturday, August 23, 2025, at 11:00 AM at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Pete ...

Victor Lancaster Posted: August 20, 2025 COLUMBUS — Victor Lancaster, 94, died Aug. 20, 2025, at Vineyard Court Nursing Center. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Memorial ...

Daisy Kidd Posted: August 20, 2025 COLUMBUS — Daisy Elizabeth Williams Kidd, 93, died Aug. 12, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at Anderson Grove M.B. Church ...