In 1971, Jim Davis traded in his whistle and gradebook as the Starkville High School football coach for selling double-knit polyester slacks and colorful leisure suits.

On Saturday, Wright Thompson will deliver the keynote address for the Possumtown Book Fest at the Rosenzweig Arts Center’s Omnova Theatre, and the timing ...

The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, according to people ...

An inmate at Lowndes County Adult Detention Center died Sunday evening after suffering a “catastrophic medical event.” Sammy Harris, 44, was being taken from one cell to another on a higher ...

Just two weeks before Casey Thomas was set to graduate from Mississippi State with a degree in marketing, she changed her mind.

Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” has died at 60.

In Wednesday’s edition, The Dispatch reported the arrest of a teenager, who allegedly threatened and hit another minor with a gun while recording a video that quickly went viral.

GE Appliances plans to shift production of refrigerators, gas ranges and water heaters out of China and Mexico as part of a more than $3 billion investment to expand its U.S. operations in ...

Mississippi State University’s newest and largest student residence hall is officially open, and Azalea Hall is welcoming its first occupants this week to launch the 2025-26 academic year.

YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos ...

James Nabors Posted: August 13, 2025 COLUMBUS — Jamse Krew Nabors died Aug. 13, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes ...

Members of the Columbus Police Department Citizen Overview Committee gather at the Municipal Complex in this 2017 Dispatch file photo. The committee was created in the aftermath of the 2015 Ricky ...