STARKVILLE – Panhandling will no longer be allowed after dark in Starkville, following the board of aldermen’s unanimous vote Tuesday evening to add a nighttime ban to the city’s solicitation ...

STARKVILLE – Aspiring and current secondary math educators from Mississippi State University and Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District’s Partnership Middle School are engaging in ...

Supervisors tabled consideration of a new ordinance that would make short-term rentals in the county subject to the 2% hotel tax. Along with the tax, the ordinance, based on one the Columbus City ...

Starting in the new year, new phone numbers in the 662 area code will start with 471 following an all services area code overlay approved by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. A number overlay ...

TIBBEE — Katia Williamson, 50, died Nov. 22, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel, with James Towery ...

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Piney Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday and one hour prior to services at the funeral ...

COLUMBUS — Evelyn M. Walker, 76, died Nov. 21, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Military Chapel U.M. Church, with Antra Geeter ...

COLUMBUS — Gregory L. Virgil Sr., 58, died Nov. 30, 2025, at Oktibbeha County Hospital in Starkville. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, at 15th Street Church of God in Christ, with Terry ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Johnnie Ray McCloud, 62, died Nov. 27, 2025, in Omaha, Nebraska. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tabernacle M.B. Church in Macon. Burial will follow at Hall Cemetery.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Bethel M.B. Church. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. Friday, at West Memorial Funeral Home. West Memorial ...

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, at St. Stephen United Methodist Church, Rev. Nelson Forrest officiating. Burial will follow at Chickie Hill Cemetery in Maben. Visitation will be from 1-5 ...

VERNON, Ala. — Bobby Dwight Gault, 82, died Nov. 23, 2025. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, at Chandler Funeral home with Kevin Brown and J.D. Markham officiating. Burial will follow at ...