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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Executive Director of Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum Derek Aaron, left, holds a handful of candy while Patricia Coley places candy in a bag for Maddie Grace Jones, 5, Thursday during Pumpkinpalooza.

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 ...

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 ...

A fire early Sunday destroyed a Northside home, according to Columbus Fire and Rescue Chief Duane Hughes. Firefighters responded at about 1 a.m. to 1402 Eighth Ave. N., Hughes said. By then, the house ...

NORMAN, Oklahoma – Ole Miss wasn’t about to let the same thing happen twice, much less within a seven-day span. A week after blowing a nine-point fourth-quarter lead at Georgia, No. 8 Ole Miss ...

For the past seven years, 81-year-old Rayness Tulipan has been helping to make the dead rise at the Columbus Fairgrounds during the Community Benefit Committee’s annual haunted house. Over time, he ...

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 ...