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 ...

Four days after Mississippi State’s second-half defense led the way in a win over a top-10 Texas A&M team by allowing just 23 points, an Oklahoma squad that had lost five straight overwhelmed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neologisms (new words) are tricky. A new word can seem useful but have no social staying power. It can outrage the pedantry of the language conservatives. The most common fate of a neologism is to ...

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 ...

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Having conversations about shared history and the challenges that come with it is essential for the growth of Columbus. That was the spirit of a Thursday night Trailblazers of Columbus event at ...

COLUMBUS — The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science wrestling team ended its inaugural season on the podium at the Mississippi Wrestling state championships last weekend, with Nina ...