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 ...

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Southside M.B. Church. Visitation will be two hours prior to services at the church. Carter’s Funeral Home of West Point is in charge of arrangements.

Starting in the new year, new phone numbers in the 662 area code will start with 471 following an all services area code overlay approved by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. A number overlay ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS — Gregory L. Virgil Sr., 58, died Nov. 30, 2025, at Oktibbeha County Hospital in Starkville. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, at 15th Street Church of God in Christ, with Terry ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Johnnie Ray McCloud, 62, died Nov. 27, 2025, in Omaha, Nebraska. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tabernacle M.B. Church in Macon. Burial will follow at Hall Cemetery.

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 ...

STARKVILLE – Aspiring and current secondary math educators from Mississippi State University and Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District’s Partnership Middle School are engaging in ...

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 ...

VERNON, Ala. — Bobby Dwight Gault, 82, died Nov. 23, 2025. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, at Chandler Funeral home with Kevin Brown and J.D. Markham officiating. Burial will follow at ...

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 ...