Columbus native Chuck Younger has been named the chair of the state Senate’s Highways and Transportation Committee. Younger, the senator for District 17 since 2014, was appointed to lead the ...

COLUMBUS — Sam P. Simon, 89, died Jan. 16, 2025. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.

Shirley Jeanette Knight Yerby, age 80, went to see her Lord and Savior Tuesday, January 14, 2025, in Columbus, Mississippi. She was a retired cosmetologist servicing Caledonia and the surrounding ...

WEST POINT — Gary Donour, 66, died Jan. 15, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Calvert Funeral Home, with the Rev. David ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Johnny Stephens, 83, died Jan. 15, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, at Dowdle Funeral Home, with Terry Jones officiating. Burial will follow ...

WEST POINT — Richard Thomas Pernell Sr., 65, died Jan. 10, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Strong Hill M.B. Church, with ...

It is with profound sadness that the family of Susan Gilliam Hardy announces her passing on Friday, January 10, 2025, at her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, at the age of 73. Susan was preceded ...

U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation’s food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk. Food and Drug ...

A car caught fire a little after noon Wednesday in the Columbus Place parking lot. When Columbus Fire and Rescue arrived on the scene, firefighters found the vehicle already fully engulfed, with ...

SHUQUALAK — Barbara Ann Hill, 61, died Jan. 5, 2025, at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon. A Celebration on Life service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Harrison Grove M.B. Church. Burial will ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Jackie Jermaine “Jack Will” Willis, 41, died Jan. 2, 2025, in Reform, Alabama. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at New Grove Baptist Church in Kennedy, Alabama ...

WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth faced an important test in his fiery confirmation hearing on Tuesday — but he didn’t just have to prove himself to the senators who immediately began sparring over ...