Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Millers Chapel Baptist Church, with Nathaniel D. Houston Sr. officiating. Burial will follow at Oddfellow Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1-5 p.m.

The Columbus Baptist Urgent Care is officially closed. Amy Thomas, chief marketing and communication officer for Urgent Team, cited “declining community demand for walk-in urgent care services” as the ...

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Glenn Chapel, with the Rev. James Samuel officiating. Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. Friday, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home. Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of ...

COLUMBUS — Elizabeth Ann Mullin Dismuke, 77, died April 27, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Turner Chapel A.M.E. Church with ...

The city council hired a contractor Tuesday to complete the third phase of the Sen. Terry Brown Amphitheater on the Island. But Ward 6 Councilman Jason Spears had “just one question” before the ...

STARKVILLE — Robert Bruce Doughty Jr., 87, died May 3, 2026. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday, at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Mike Hall officiating. Burial will follow at ...

Patricia Ann “Patsy” Winklepleck, 72, of Ethelsville, Alabama, passed away Monday, May 4, 2026, at Trinity Healthcare in Columbus, MS. Visitation will be Friday ...

Kyle, a Starkville native, died at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at UMMC in Jackson, of heart failure. Born on June 3, 1981, Kyle lived his entire life in Starkville, and enjoyed European ...

ALICEVILLE, Ala. — Lydia B. Walker Hughes, 95, died April 30, 2026, at her daughter’s residence in Ellenwood, Georgia. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at First Baptist Church. Burial will ...

Sylvia Shelton White, 68, of Millport, Alabama, passed away on May 4, 2026. Sylvia was born on March 22, 1958, in Columbus, Mississippi, to the late Revis and Betty Shelton. She spent her life working ...

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, at Macedonia M.B. Church, with Terry Lee Rice Jr. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation was from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

STARKVILLE – An Oktibbeha County sheriff’s deputy was fired following a Sunday afternoon brawl with an umpire during a Grand Slam baseball tournament at Cornerstone Park. Lt. Darrell Holley, a coach ...