STARKVILLE – The board of aldermen voted Tuesday night to keep Starkville’s property tax rate the same for next fiscal year, but the city still expects to generate an additional $2.1 million from ...

A woman last seen in July who was reported missing last week has been found safe, Columbus Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Nicholas Hairston told The Dispatch. CPD asked the public ...

WEST POINT – Trains will run, and blues music will croon as the Prairie Arts Festival returns for its 48th year. West Point-Clay County Growth Alliance Director Lisa Klutts said the festival, which is ...

Five-time national champion head coach Buddy Stephens is no longer the head coach at East Mississippi Community College. The college announced Monday night that associate head football coach/offensive ...

OXFORD – More than three years after Starkville Academy student Walker Montgomery took his own life following an online sextortion scheme, the Nigerian man accused of targeting him has been extradited ...

SCOOBA – When the season kicks off today for East Mississippi Community College on the road at Southwest Mississippi Community College, it will mark the first of 10 regular season games this season ...

The Supreme Court gave us a start yesterday, with what looked, at first glance, like a win for Trump’s efforts to suppress mail-in ballots. But, as Andrew Egger explained, that isn’t quite what ...

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 ...

WEST POINT – A patient at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point was arrested Tuesday after allegedly smashing several receptionist windows in the hospital’s emergency room. Tyler Bell, 40, was ...

The year 1813 was a pivotal time in the history of the Tombigbee River Valley. The ongoing War of 1812 with England was raging in the east and northeast but was little felt in the Mississippi ...

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 ...

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 ...