States that allow mail ballots to be counted after Election Day reacted with relief Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to outlaw the practice. A decision favoring the ...

Khadijah Farrakhan, longtime wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died Saturday, the Nation of Islam has announced. She was 90. “Mother Khadijah” worked alongside her provocative and ...

A judge on Tuesday barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, ordering an end to a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year. The ...

Whenever you walked through the wooden front door to Pheba’s Diner off Highway 50, there was always one thing that remained constant. Seated at the head of a large table in the middle of the main ...

A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter. U.S.

COLUMBUS — Gene A. “Effer” Sherrod, 63, died June 19, 2026, in Grenada. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Pilgrim Rest M.B. Church in Brooksville, with Tommy Sherrod officiating. Burial ...

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, at Mt. Peiler M.B. Church. Burial will follow at Fox Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3-6 p.m. Thursday, at West Memorial Funeral Home. West Memorial ...

James “Pug” Edward Forrester, 78, of Columbus, MS, passed away Monday, June 29, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-GT in Columbus, MS. Visitation will be Monday ...

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 ...

To anyone in Columbus for the last 49 years, the giant building at 1404 Old Aberdeen Road has always been Leigh Mall. But the Hull Property Group, which bought the mall in 2019 with the goal of ...

Brian Hutson had been here before. Four times to be exact. Leading his opponent, Lucian Anderson, by only two points, Hutson needed to win the obstacle course, dubbed The Eliminator, by one second.

STARKVILLE – The new Starkville High School project now has a price tag and a bond issue to match. During its regular meeting Tuesday at the Greensboro Center, the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated ...