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Li-ya Wilson, left, and Darien Hardy control their robots Iris and Lloyd as teacher assistant Kenna Henkel plays the characters’ pre-recorded lines from her laptop. A sound-system malfunction ...

Ward 4 candidate Pierre Beard speaks to a crowd of about 25 during a candidate forum Saturday morning at Columbus-Lowndes Public Library. Beard was joined by mayoral candidates Bill Strauss and ...

From the Opinion Page of The Dispatch, the hosts of this podcast debate and discuss local news for Columbus and Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Every year, roughly 230 of the state’s most gifted students flock to Columbus, prepared to take on the challenge of succeeding at Mississippi’s most academically rigorous high school.

A single-engine plane sits in a New Hope area pasture with a broken wing after a family of four crash landed around 4 p.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported, according to Lowndes County Fire ...

Aldermen denied an exception for Burns Dirt to open a borrow pit on Pat Station Road, after a resident of a nearby home on Tuesday night raised objections to the company’s operations in the area ...

Mississippi State pitcher Pico Kohn walks off the mound. Kohn worked 6 ⅔ innings Friday night at No. 11 Auburn, but took the loss after allowing six earned runs. (Photo courtesy of Mississippi ...

A municipal election voting precinct opened 30 minutes late Tuesday morning because an election worker’s vehicle containing ballots was repossessed overnight.

“Because we don’t have very good models to study on in a lab setting before we put things into humans, we see about 90% of the drugs that we’re testing on patients in clinical trials are ...

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 Memphis ...

Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District started the spring semester Tuesday without internet access thanks to a disruption to its computer service.