Cynthia Bradford Grace Reeves, of Starkville, MS, passed away Saturday, November 1, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS, surrounded by family. Visitation will be Wednesday, ...

Helen Lucile Putt Thomas of Starkville died November 1, 2025, at Trinity Place in Columbus. She was born December 21, 1931, in Saltillo. She was the daughter of Robert Q and Louie Dye Putt. She was ...

Sulligent, Ala. — Herman Hayes, 81, died Oct. 23, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Otts Funeral hOme. Burial followed at Sulligent ...

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, at Calvert Funeral Home with James Towery officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Garden Cemetery in West Point. Visitation will be two hours prior to ...

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.

STARKVILLE – Cobwebs, fake blood and skeletons will decorate the theater at Mississippi State University’s McComas Hall for a haunted house from Thursday to Saturday. This will be the second year ...

Award-winning chef and bestselling author Jeff Henderson brought more than recipes to Mississippi University for Women last week. Before headlining the 2025 Welty Gala on Friday evening, Henderson ...

With the shuttering of Franklin Academy earlier this year, Columbus Municipal School District trustees must decide what comes next for the property. Ideas for the property, which has housed a school ...

Patrice Butts keeps a photo of her mother and sister on her desk at Safe Haven, where she works as a case manager for victims of domestic violence. Both women were killed in 2016 in an act of domestic ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Michael Sudduth, 76, died Oct. 25, 2025. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, at Christian Chapel Church Cemetery. Dowdle Funeral home of Millport is in charge of arrangements ...

STARKVILLE – Mississippi State soccer closed out its regular season on Sunday with a 1-0 home loss to Georgia. The 11 a.m. start meant that many of the usual fans didn’t make it out, as well as a ...

In 2024, Mississippi’s infant mortality rate was recorded at a rate of 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births within their first year of life, or roughly one death out of every 100 babies born. That puts the ...