On Saturday, Wright Thompson will deliver the keynote address for the Possumtown Book Fest at the Rosenzweig Arts Center’s Omnova Theatre, and the timing ...

In 1971, Jim Davis traded in his whistle and gradebook as the Starkville High School football coach for selling double-knit polyester slacks and colorful leisure suits.

An inmate at Lowndes County Adult Detention Center died Sunday evening after suffering a “catastrophic medical event.” Sammy Harris, 44, was being taken from one cell to another on a higher ...

Just two weeks before Casey Thomas was set to graduate from Mississippi State with a degree in marketing, she changed her mind.

The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, according to people ...

Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” has died at 60.

Mississippi State University’s newest and largest student residence hall is officially open, and Azalea Hall is welcoming its first occupants this week to launch the 2025-26 academic year.

In Wednesday’s edition, The Dispatch reported the arrest of a teenager, who allegedly threatened and hit another minor with a gun while recording a video that quickly went viral.

GE Appliances plans to shift production of refrigerators, gas ranges and water heaters out of China and Mexico as part of a more than $3 billion investment to expand its U.S. operations in ...

Melanie Snow Decker passed away on Saturday, August 9, 2025, at her residence in Columbus. Melanie was born on February 20, 1955, in Philadelphia, to ...

The Southeastern Conference released conference matchup schedules for men’s and women’s basketball this week. Mississippi State learned its matchups earlier this summer and now has word when ...

James Nabors Posted: August 13, 2025 COLUMBUS — Jamse Krew Nabors died Aug. 13, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes ...