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Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Lower Prairie Creek M.B. Church in Pheba, with Eugene Ford officiating. Burial will follow at Watkins Family Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-5 p.m ...
STARKVILLE — Jarvis Lanell Tate, 65, died May 16, 2025, in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Blackjack M.B. Church. Burial will follow at Fox Cemetery. Visitation is from 1 ...
Dr. Edwin Dilworth Meeks, II, M.D., 75, passed away on Sunday, April 27, 2025, at his home in Columbus. Born in Aberdeen on October 26, 1949, to Edwin Dilworth Meeks and Margaret Alene Willmore Meeks.
COLUMBUS — George Andrew “Andy” Fant, 73, died May 20, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, 2025, at First Christian Church.
MILLPORT, Ala. — David Weston Sullivan, 64, died May 20, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Thursday, at Dowdle Funeral Home, with Jeff Long officiating. Visitation will be ...
ALICEVILLE, Ala. — David Devon “Heavy D” Prude, 35, died May 16, 2025, at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, at Pickensville Church of Christ in ...
Mary Alice Bobo, 89, passed away peacefully on May 8 , 2025, in hospice at The Windsor Place. She was born on November 14, 1935, in Caledonia, Mississippi to the late Robert Walter and Maggie ...
WEST POINT — Barbara Ann Stevenson, 66, died April 30, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Town Creek M.B. Church, with Dr ...
I follow a bright flash of orange against the trees with the barrel of a shotgun as my first clay target sails into the sky. The gun pops back. I miss. Dalton Steed, the instructor standing ...
Taco Amigo’s Starkville expansion is moving in the right direction. In December, I reported that the Taco Amigo food truck in Columbus was planning to open a restaurant in Starkvegas. Owner ...
Chris Lemonis was let go as Mississippi State’s head coach on Monday with three weeks remaining in the regular season and the Bulldogs sitting in 14th place in the new 16-team Southeastern ...
County supervisors are hammering out a deal to have the Columbus-Lowndes Humane Society handle the bulk of its animal control enforcement outside Columbus city limits. The board voted unanimously ...