OXFORD — A court decision reversal released Thursday will allow a lawsuit filed against the NCAA by former Ole Miss football staffer David Saunders to continue its process after it was initially ...

Mississippi State announced the death of former All-SEC pitcher Caleb Reed on Wednesday. Reed was 35 years old. According to a GoFundMe page created by his friends and family, Reed was diagnosed with ...

When Caitlyn Wooten first tried Pilates in 2023, a couple of months after giving birth to her son, Taylor, she wasn’t looking to bounce back into her pre-baby body. She just wanted to find herself ...

STARKVILLE – An Oktibbeha County sheriff’s deputy was fired following a Sunday afternoon brawl with an umpire during a Grand Slam baseball tournament at Cornerstone Park. Lt. Darrell Holley, a coach ...

ALICEVILLE, Ala. — Lydia B. Walker Hughes, 95, died April 30, 2026, at her daughter’s residence in Ellenwood, Georgia. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at First Baptist Church. Burial will ...

COLUMBUS – Longtime CEO Joe Max Higgins is no longer with the Golden Triangle Development LINK. A press release issued Sunday evening said the LINK’s Executive Committee determined “a leadership ...

Sylvia Shelton White, 68, of Millport, Alabama, passed away on May 4, 2026. Sylvia was born on March 22, 1958, in Columbus, Mississippi, to the late Revis and Betty Shelton. She spent her life working ...

COLUMBUS — Under a new state law, military families in Columbus have more flexibility when it comes to deciding where their kids will go to school. The law, which went into effect July 1, allows ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – A former Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District teacher was convicted Wednesday of three counts of touching a child for lustful purposes. A jury found Kelvin Lamar ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence rose modestly in April despite growing anxiety over soaring energy prices brought on by the war in Iran. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer ...

The Dispatch’s Best of the Triangle readers’ choice contest is the area’s longest-running recognition of the most popular businesses and professionals in the Golden Triangle. Businesses who want to ...

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, at Macedonia M.B. Church, with Terry Lee Rice Jr. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation was from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.