With hearts full of love and sorrow, we celebrate the life of William Russell “Bill” Laws, Sr., who entered the arms of our Heavenly Father on February 6, 2025, at the age of 57. Though his ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY — A Starkville man was sentenced Tuesday to serve 90 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting his former girlfriend’s three daughters. An Oktibbeha ...

Prestige, a clothing apparel store, will leave Columbus Place within the next month. Owner Sam Prestige has operated the clothing store for nearly 30 years in Columbus. Prestige said with the mall ...

STARKVILLE — Leroy W. “Billy” Dunbar, 78, died Jan. 25, 2025, in Jackson. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Hairston and Hairston Funeral Homes. Hairston and Hairston ...

STARKVILLE — Odester Brown, 81, died Jan. 28, 2025, in Starkville. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Spring Hill M.B. Church. Burial will follow at Spring Hill Cemetery. Visitation ...

WEST POINT — Johnny Robinson, 66, died Jan. 29, 2025, at Merit Health River Oaks in Flowood. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Third Mt. Olive M.B ...

NEW YORK — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but ...

COLUMBUS — Louise Webber, 84, died Feb. 1, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at St. James M.B. Church ...

Beard said he did not want to attend the special meeting because he was still trying to learn more about the details of the grant. There is no harm in applying for the grant, he said, but he ...

COLUMBUS — Yolanda Faye “Yo” Lowe, 62, died Jan. 28, 2025, in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, at Hopewell M.B. Church, with Donald ...

STARKVILLE — Sarah Ann “Say-ran” “Mookie” Bishop, 60, died Jan. 25, 2025, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Hairston and Hairston ...

WEST POINT — Judy Davidson, 91, died Feb. 4, 2025, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Friday, at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Kirby Lloyd officiating.