Roy Whitehead, age 82, of Columbus, MS, passed away Monday June 30, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Mr. Whitehead wa ...

COLUMBUS — Easter Mae Fenton, 75, died June 24, 2025, at Windsor Place. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, at Hopewell M.B. Church, ...

COLUMBUS — Robert Alexander “Bobby” Patrick Jr., 78, died June 28, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 2 ...

SULLIGENT, Ala. — Roger Harris, 78, died June 24, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Friday, at Otts Funeral Home Chapel, ...

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MURRAY, Ky. — Connie Locke, 83, died July 2, 2025, in Murray. Funeral services will be at noon Thursday, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home, with the Rev. Klaus R. Tate officiating. Burial will follow at ...

STARKVILLE — Eddie James Davis, 59, died June 15, 2025, in Pearl. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, at Beth-el MB Church. Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Visitation will ...

Jimmy Craddieth Posted: July 8, 2025 COLUMBUS — Jimmy Craddieth, 85, died July 6, 2025, at Windsor Place. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Columbus.

ALICEVILLE, Ala. — William C. “W.C.” Cunningham, 75, died June 27, 2025, at Aliceville Manor Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12 ...

Every year, roughly 230 of the state’s most gifted students flock to Columbus, prepared to take on the challenge of succeeding at Mississippi’s most academically rigorous high school.

Two men are dead after fatally shooting each other Thursday in the parking lot of the Quality Inn on Highway 12 in Starkville. Veshawn Williams, 25, of Columbus and Robert Mayfield, 27, of Memphis ...

Mississippi State University is changing the name of the Holmes Center, pending approval by the state board of trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning.