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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 ...

The city is still in the running for a $20 million grant that would build an $8 million multipurpose facility on part of the old Kerr-McGee Superfund site and improve more than 400 homes in the ...

The event drew in students from 14 careers centers across 11 counties, according to FORGE’s press release, and focused mainly on high-schoolers. Behind two rows of tables sat roughly 100 ...

Two of my teachers growing up had an outsized impact on my life. They helped build the foundation for my becoming a journalist. My fifth-grade English teacher was really the first person outside ...

Tennessee Valley Authority is officially moving forward with building a gas-powered combustion turbine energy plant near Caledonia. The project will be located on a TVA-owned 145-acre property on ...

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ...

Police are searching for a suspect following a Thursday shooting on the 900 Block of Fourth Avenue South. Shots were fired into an apartment building at around 4:44 p.m., Columbus Police ...

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 ...

Mississippi public schools saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 24.4% in 2023-2024, meaning that swath of students missed at least 18 days of school. The legislature is trying to combat the problem ...

WASHINGTON — The wealth of Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has swelled in part from for ...