COLUMBUS – On the way to the assembly line at Airbus, a sign reads, “392 days without an accident.” It’s a reminder of the care and attention to detail required by the workers, both for their own ...

Bridgett Alexander has recently been named director for inpatient nursing at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. She will oversee the overall operation of the hospital’s medical/surgical, ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University announced new tailgating zones for the 2025 football season on Thursday, with the biggest change being the rezoning of The Junction, removing public ...

STARKVILLE — Photos of four properties on Ruth Road drew winces and looks of disbelief Tuesday during a board of aldermen meeting at City Hall. Three were abandoned houses in extreme disrepair. The ...

Spotlight Barbershop owner Arthur Brewer doesn’t condone violence of any sort, but especially not gun violence, which is why he has a “no guns” sign posted in his shop window. The signage didn’t seem ...

To anyone in Columbus for the last 49 years, the giant building at 1404 Old Aberdeen Road has always been Leigh Mall. But the Hull Property Group, which bought the mall in 2019 with the goal of ...

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“Goodnight moon; goodnight cow jumping over the moon; goodnight light and the red balloon.” The famous children’s book “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown is technically a “banned book” for two ...

STARKVILLE — Jazzy music plays over the speaker of an engineering classroom on Aug. 3 in the Simrall Engineering Building at Mississippi State University. In the middle of the classroom-turned-dance ...

He built his first crude radio station as a teenager and by age 14 was working at a Columbus radio station, the beginning of a 52-year career as a technician at radio and TV stations, a utility ...

STARKVILLE – The Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District board on Tuesday approved a memorandum of understanding with Mississippi State University, agreeing to partner in planning for the ...

Three men were injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon outside of a home on Airline Road, according to a Columbus Police Department press release. CPD officers responded to a call of shots fired at ...