Voter turnout in the 2025 municipal primaries for Columbus and Starkville showed improvement compared to low participation in 2021, though Columbus fell short of its higher turnout in 2017 ...

Sanders said CBC will get by on donated food until it can find another opportunity to fundraise. Typically that would come in June or July from the group’s annual gala, but given the upfront ...

Mississippi will remain one of only three states without no-excuse early voting or no-excuse absentee voting. Senate leaders, on the last day of their regular 2025 session, decided not to send a ...

Mississippi District 41 Rep. Kabir Karriem will serve as chairman of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus after being sworn in Wednesday. Karriem was elected as chairman by members of the ...

STARKVILLE — Larry ‘Luv’ Johnson’s barber shop has struggled financially as the Highway 182 revitalization has torn up streets and forced traffic to back up around his business. But his ...

COLUMBUS – A municipal election voting precinct opened 30 minutes late Tuesday morning because an election worker’s vehicle containing ballots was repossessed overnight. The receiving and ...

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STARKVILLE — The last meeting of this season’s Starkville/Golden Triangle Civil War Roundtable will take place on Tuesday at the Golden Triangle Planning and Development Building, 106 Miley Drive.

STARKVILLE — Former General Manager of Starkville’s Parks and Recreation Doug Heflin pleaded guilty last month to rigging bids while selling sports equipment to public schools in both ...

People have often asked me where I find some of the little known events of history that I have written about. The answer is easy – in the newspaper. Accounts of the settlement of what is now ...

Archie Manning remembers Kellen Moore coming to the Manning Passing Academy at Thibodaux, Louisiana, as a counselor during the summer of 2010, just before Moore’s junior season at Boise State.

Three suspects have been arrested for a shooting over the weekend that resulted in no injuries and involved a child. Christopher Brown, 33, of West Point, Jennifer Bass, 31, of Starkville and ...