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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.
Mississippi State University members of the Famous Maroon Band aren’t just good musicians – they tend to be students who make everything look easy, including maintaining a high GPA.
After more than two decades away, Hanna Raskin is returning to the city where her career as a journalist first began. And where she was arrested.
Supervisors unanimously agreed Monday to allow $700,000 left over state grant funding to be redirected toward relocating and upgrading the Josey Creek sewage pumping station, which serves ...
Position Preview: Looking at Mississippi State’s tight ends room for the 2025 season Veteran Traore, newcomer Reese could be impact players at the position ...
Despite Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District’s plans to borrow up to $125 million to build a new high school by 2027, that debt will not show up in next year’s tax bill for ...
Chris Curtis, owner of the Blue Moon Drive-In Theatre, holds his grandson, Christopher Henderson, 1, behind the concession stand counter Thursday morning. The drive-in, located in Gu-Win, Alabama ...
YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos ...
MCMULLEN, Ala. — Naomi “Shugg” Washington, 62, died Aug. 11, 2025, at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m.
Even with no increase to the tax rate, the city stands to generate at least $106,000 in additional property tax revenue next year just from organic growth. Lowndes County Tax Assessor Greg Andrews ...