A former New Hope Middle School teacher arrested Thursday is accused of providing alcohol and tobacco products to students and engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a minor. Monica Grady, 41, ...

Last year, Mississippi was at risk of being the first state ever to not send a student representative to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Columbus “saved the bee” by rallying together to fund and ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion on Thursday over allegations that JPMorgan stopped providing banking services to him and his ...

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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 ...

An on-duty officer with the Columbus Police Department was arrested Wednesday afternoon after trying to leave Dick’s Sporting Goods wearing a new pair of shoes she hadn’t paid for. Officers were ...

STARKVILLE — Hal Mumme is among the architects of the modern passing game. The Don Corleone of aerial assaults. The Godfather of the air raid offense. He designed the air raid in the mid-1980s as the ...

The man who is reportedly the richest oligarch in Russia — and the target of numerous international sanctions because of his country’s recent invasion of Ukraine — played an important role in one of ...

SDI representatives, CEO Mark Millett and Gov. Tate Reeves dig up dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for Aluminum Dynamics Tuesday afternoon off Charleigh D. Ford Jr. Drive. Millett expects to begin ...

STARKVILLE — Every time Pastor and Judge Larnzy Carpenter Jr. is about to take the bench, he has a few things he likes to do. First, Carpenter always prays through a special prayer before entering the ...

STARKVILLE — While most novels aim to be interesting, not all involve eight real historical southern murders. “Our story starts in a cemetery and ends in a cemetery, with some other things in between, ...

DeeDee Baldwin, engagement librarian at Mississippi State University, has spent the last six years researching the first Black legislators in the state. “As faculty librarians, we’re allowed to ...