COLUMBUS — Tonya “Bookie” Regina Hairston, 50, died April 15, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Tucker’s Play and ...

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, at New Zion M.B. Church, with the Rev. John Wicks Jr. officiating. Burial will follow at Wicks Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 1-5 p.m ...

Maria “Connie” Alsup, 73, of Columbus, MS, passed away Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Golden Triangle in Columbus, MS. Visitation will be ...

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 ...

OXFORD – More than 100 University of Mississippi students were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization in the liberal arts.

For the first time since 2009, no Mississippi State players were selected in the NFL Draft — although former Bulldogs running back Jo’Quavious “Woody” Marks was picked in the fourth round ...

For a 14th year, prayers and people will return to the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn on Thursday to observe the National Day of Prayer. Organized by the Christian Community in Prayer Committee ...

The government’s position is that they can remove anyone, U.S. citizen or not, to a foreign prison, and if they can do it before a judge denies them, there is nothing the government can do to ...

On June 30, 2009, Sam Cameron, the then-executive director of the Mississippi Hospital Association, held a news conference in the Capitol rotunda to publicly take his whipping and accept his defeat.

Emma Hardy, majoring in communication from Columbus is among 46 Mississippi State seniors inducted into the Gamma of Mississippi Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for 2025. Among the top 10% of their ...

After 58 years of teaching preschoolers at Coleman Head Start Center, Shirley Ann Verdell still talks about all her students as if they are her own children. “I fell in love with the children ...

Ruby Inez Townsend, age 92, of Columbus, Mississippi, passed away peacefully on April 28, 2025. A visitation will be on Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM at Lowndes Funeral Home ...