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 ...

There will be no services at this time. Lowndes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Pannell was born Feb. 19, 1953, in Alabama, to the late Walton Pannell and Eloise Pannell. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2% pace from January through March after recovering from last fall’s 43-day federal government shutdown. But the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kyle, a Starkville native, died at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at UMMC in Jackson, of heart failure. Born on June 3, 1981, Kyle lived his entire life in Starkville, and enjoyed European ...