STARKVILLE – Panhandling will no longer be allowed after dark in Starkville, following the board of aldermen’s unanimous vote Tuesday evening to add a nighttime ban to the city’s solicitation ...

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 ...

Tests of ByHeart infant formula tied to a botulism outbreak that has sickened dozens of babies showed that all of the company’s products may have been contaminated. Laboratory tests of 36 samples of ...

TIBBEE — Katia Williamson, 50, died Nov. 22, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel, with James Towery ...

CRAWFORD — Johnny J. “J.J.” “Big John”, 72, died Nov. 18, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at St. James M.B. Church ...

COLUMBUS — Tommie Lee Deloach, 57, died Nov. 20, 2025. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at Carter’s Funeral Service Chapel, with the Rev. Jeremiah Gardner officiating. Burial will follow at ...

There will be no services at this time. Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Shaffer was born Sept. 20, 1943, in Chickasaw County, to the late Bob and Cassie Ware ...

Ronald Leigh Williams, 78, of Maben, Mississippi, passed away on November 19, 2025, at home on his beloved farm. A celebration of life service will take place on December 12, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. at ...

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Piney Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday and one hour prior to services at the funeral ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Laura Mae Martin Cole, 69, died Nov. 9, 2025. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Pleasant Grove Full Gospel Baptist Church in Columbus, with Timothy Bourne ...

COLUMBUS — Evelyn M. Walker, 76, died Nov. 21, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Military Chapel U.M. Church, with Antra Geeter ...

WEST POINT — Glenda Denise Dean, 56, died Nov. 21, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Fresh Church, with Alex Jackson Sr. officiating ...