Jerry Howard Powell, age 78, of Columbus, MS, passed away November 26, 2025, at the State Veterans Home in Kosciusko, MS. Funeral services were Sunday, November 30, 2025, at 2:00 PM at Memorial ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Lon Edward “Eddy” Wright, 79, died Nov. 26, 2025. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Dowdle Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Ebenezer Cemetery. Visitation is one hour ...

NOXUBEE COUNTY — Bruce Cunningham, 61, died Nov. 25, 2025. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.

VERNON, Ala. — Bobby Dwight Gault, 82, died Nov. 23, 2025. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, at Chandler Funeral home with Kevin Brown and J.D. Markham officiating. Burial will follow at ...

Dennis Lawrence Perkins, age 66 of Springdale, Arkansas, passed away on Thursday, October 2, 2025, in Fayetteville. He was born November 10, 1958 in Harlingen, Texas to the late Ottis Lawrence Perkins ...

STARKVILLE — William Thomas “Tommy” Chisholm will spend the rest of his life in prison after an Oktibbeha County Circuit Court jury found him guilty Friday of capital murder. Chisholm, 44, of ...

STARKVILLE — When Anna Pugh arrived in Starkville as an undergraduate anthropology student in 2023, she didn’t know much about Brush Arbor cemetery. To her surprise, the people she met who had lived ...

In the wake of a politically charged climate surrounding immigration, some local businesses are facing heightened uncertainty. Immigration advocacy groups, like the National Immigration Law Center, ...

To anyone in Columbus for the last 49 years, the giant building at 1404 Old Aberdeen Road has always been Leigh Mall. But the Hull Property Group, which bought the mall in 2019 with the goal of ...

Taylor Made Cake is opening up its second location in Starkville, y’all. The wildly popular cake bakery in the New Hope area will open, fingers crossed, Frosted Fork by the end of July in the old ...

STARKVILLE — Photos of four properties on Ruth Road drew winces and looks of disbelief Tuesday during a board of aldermen meeting at City Hall. Three were abandoned houses in extreme disrepair. The ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – A new neighborhood development is coming to east Oktibbeha County, Atlanta-based real estate development firm Forest Street Partners announced Thursday. The project spans a 98-acre ...