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Add another $1 million toward completing the Sen. Terry Brown Amphitheater on the Island. City council members voted 4-0 in a special-call meeting Thursday, held over Zoom, to accept the contribution ...

Supervisors tabled consideration of a new ordinance that would make short-term rentals in the county subject to the 2% hotel tax. Along with the tax, the ordinance, based on one the Columbus City ...

COLUMBUS — After more than 20 years, The Wherehouse is bringing “The Nutcracker” back to Columbus, featuring more than 100 local performers ranging from 3-year-olds to adults. The production blends ...

OXFORD – With just a Nov. 28 Egg Bowl matchup at Mississippi State remaining on the regular-season schedule, No. 6 Ole Miss (10-1, 6-1 SEC) finds itself on the verge of its first College Football ...

WEST POINT — Christopher Lamont Key, 52, died Nov. 20, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Zion Springs M.B. Church in Okolona, with ...

It’s 1969. And things are getting out of hand. After I was tossed out of Mississippi State like a dog’s worn out chew toy, I moved up to Tennessee to be near my girlfriend and her family. Then Uncle ...

A Columbus man has been charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend, Neshieka Dobbs, according to a Columbus Police Department press release. Jamar Hughes, 40, was detained for questioning ...

WEST POINT — Saylor Phoenix Trull, 3 weeks, died Nov. 18, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Funeral services will be at 2 a.m. Monday, at Calvert Funeral Home, with James Towery ...

Kaylar R Hill-Duck and Eric V Duck; Nov. 4 ...

Annie Dobbs knew something was wrong when she didn’t hear from her daughter Nashieka “Shieka” Dobbs for a few days. “If she’d go out and stay, even two days, she’d call me,” Annie Dobbs told The ...