Linda Walker Pyle, age 75, died Saturday, November 22, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus. Services will be held Wednesday November 26, 2025, at 11:00 AM at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with ...

Dennis Lawrence Perkins, age 66 of Springdale, Arkansas, passed away on Thursday, October 2, 2025, in Fayetteville. He was born November 10, 1958 in Harlingen, Texas to the late Ottis Lawrence Perkins ...

CALEDONIA — David Wayne Robinson, 74, died Nov. 22, 2025, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Chandler Funeral Home Chapel, with Ben Vernon ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own ...

WEST POINT — Kattie Mae Walker, 92, died Nov. 12, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Union Star M.B. Church, with the Rev. Gregory Pegues ...

NOXUBEE COUNTY — Emanuel Mallard Jr., 66, died Nov. 19, 2025. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.

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MACON — Gary Lois Higginbotham, 81, died Nov. 17, 2025, at his daughter’s residence in Starkville. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Cockrell Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Salem ...

CLAY COUNTY – At least five people were injured in a shooting Saturday night in Clay County, Chief Deputy Steven “Woody” Woodruff told The Dispatch. The shooting took place at about midnight during a ...

When two contractors were critically injured last week in a fire at Steel Dynamics’ Biocarbon Solutions plant, firefighters and paramedics from the new industrial fire and rescue station at the ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – An annual Talking Warrior Water Association meeting descended into chaos Monday evening after members raised concerns about bylaw violations, financial discrepancies and a lack of ...

With the shuttering of Franklin Academy earlier this year, Columbus Municipal School District trustees must decide what comes next for the property. Ideas for the property, which has housed a school ...