Dr. Doris Taylor helped pioneer a process for decellularizing hearts and rebuilding them into scaffolds to be used in an organ replacement. When thinking about what Mississippi University for Women ...

Last spring, Chiquita Brown had not even heard of Habitat for Humanity. But now she’s counting down the days to her September move-in thanks to Starkville Habitat for Humanity. Brown found out about ...

STARKVILLE – The board of alderman plans to generate an additional $2.1 million from property tax next year. About $1 million of the additional $2.1 million would go toward costs already approved by ...

ABBEVILLE, La. — Elon Musk’s space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a massive new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets, state officials and the company announced Tuesday. Louisiana Gov ...

Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree. But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quick solution. So the laid-off web ...

I am grateful for the kind words in the recent opinion piece about my potential to lead The W, and I must gently correct the record: I am not The W’s most accomplished graduate. I am not even close. I ...

Regions news is popping up all over the Golden Triangle this week. First up in Columbus: the downtown Regions building at 710 Main St. is officially under contract, according to LoopNet. The ...

Raymond McCool, 81, of Caledonia, MS, passed away Thursday, August 28, 2026, at Windsor in Columbus, MS. Visitation will be Sunday, August 30, 2026, from 2:00 P.M. to ...

STARKVILLE — Robert Ervin Young, 73, died Aug. 16, 2026. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at New Zion United Methodist Church. West Memorial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of ...

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.

NOXUBEE COUNTY — Lizzie Stallings, 91, died Aug. 20, 2026, at NMMC in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at Union Chapel M.B. Church in Brooksville, with James Rice officiating.

Thomas Calvert Naugle, Jr., M.D., passed away peacefully August 15, 2026, at home, in the loving arms of his wife, Dennie Elizabeth (Betsy) Naugle. Dr. Naugle was born in Gadsen, Alabama, on November ...