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STARKVILLE — Delores Elane Bradford Gibson, 85, died Oct. 9, 2025. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Peters Rock C.O.G.I.C. Visitation is from 3-6 p.m. Thursday at West Memorial Funeral ...

Mississippi University for Women has received a $140,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Education through its Mississippi Teacher Residency program, covering tuition, books and fees for 10 ...

Residents of the Downtown Historic District began receiving letters recently from the city’s building department reminding them of what changes to their property require prior approval. For most, the ...

Based on political belief, “more than 4,000 federal workers were given layoff notices” according to CNN. This thing has happened in the USA. Where are diversity, equity, fairness, and inclusion? I ...

COLUMBUS – You could say Timothy Bourne and education have always had the right chemistry together. After all, it was chemistry that got his career bubbling in the classroom. Bourne has been at the ...

STARKVILLE — Mary Ethel Townsend Harrell, 88, died Oct. 8, 2025, in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Lindsey Chapel U.M. Church. Burial will follow at Lindsey Chapel Cemetery.

Terriaua Ickom, left, trades trinkets with Marz Bennett on Saturday during the Harvest Market in Columbus. Bennett told The Dispatch she frequently brings trinkets – small, inexpensive and sometimes ...

STARKVILLE — Terry Abel, a two-time graduate of Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering, has received NASA’s prestigious Silver Snoopy award, an honor given to employees and contractors for ...

A while back I was rummaging through my closet off the bedroom, probably to find something that wasn’t a black T-shirt to wear that day, when I came across a shirt that seemed familiar but it looked ...

DALLAS — Susan G. Komen, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, completed its own analysis comparing the disparity in mortality rates in 2014 and 2023 between Black women and white women with ...

Just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans believe polarization is the second most serious challenge facing the nation. (The economy came in first.) ...