Big news for Big Ed. East Columbus has a new dining option that has officially opened. Edward and Jennifer Bishop opened Big Ed’s Fish House, 525 Alabama St., on Thursday. Initially, the Bishops had ...

After more than 20 years serving as attorney for the board of supervisors, Tim Hudson plans to retire this year. While he privately informed each board member, Hudson made it official Wednesday with ...

For decades Lindsey Graham traveled the globe selling a vision of the United States as a nation willing to use its military might to protect democracies around the world, even as his party was taken ...

Former city of Columbus grant writer/administrator Susan Wilder has been hired as director of development and philanthropic strategy for The Dispatch. Her first day will be July 20. In this newly ...

Public school enrollment in Mississippi has been on a decline for roughly a decade, and most school districts in the Golden Triangle have not been spared. Apart from Lowndes County School District, ...

Jeff Brantley still remembers the game like it was yesterday. Long before his name was set to be enshrined in the pantheon of college baseball, Brantley and his teammates sat in the first base dugout ...

Lowndes County sheriff’s investigators are seeking a suspect in a Sunday shooting that left one man dead. At about 2:20 p.m., deputies responded to reports of gunshots on Steens Vernon Road near the ...

It’s a Starkville reunion in West Point. Last week, West Point announced former Starkville head boys basketball coach Greg Carter and former player Cam Skinner are the latest additions to its boys ...

STARKVILLE – Get ready to dance and sing along to all your favorite Motown songs this month during two Starkville Strong benefit concerts, organized with the help of a Jackson-based nonprofit looking ...

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, at Christian Faith M.B. Church, with Demario Brown officiating. Burial will follow at New Prairie Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to ...

In a change of command ceremony in Hanger 2 at Columbus Air Force Base, presided over by Brig. Gen. Travolis Simmons, commander of the 19th Air Force, Col. James Blech – having completed his 2-year ...

Graveside service will be 2 p.m. Sunday, at Memorial Garden Park Cemetery. West Memorial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrangements. He is survived by his daughter, Amanda Maxcy; son, ...