Eddie Davis Posted: July 8, 2025 STARKVILLE — Eddie James Davis, 59, died June 15, 2025, in Pearl. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, at Beth-el MB Church. Burial will follow at ...

COLUMBUS — Jimmy Craddieth, 85, died July 6, 2025, at Windsor Place. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Columbus.

Roy Whitehead, age 82, of Columbus, MS, passed away Monday June 30, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus. A memorial service will be held at ...

Bobby Patrick Posted: June 30, 2025 COLUMBUS — Robert Alexander “Bobby” Patrick Jr., 78, died June 28, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m ...

Mary Hopkins Posted: July 2, 2025 MACON — Mary Hopkins, 95, died June 21, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at New Hope U.M Church, with Kory Bridges ...

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Richard Beemster Posted: July 9, 2025 COLUMBUS — Richard James Beemster, 85, died July 8, 2025, at his residence. Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. July 17, at Cockrell Funeral Home, with ...

Cynthia “Cindy” Diane Jaynes Wingo, 65, died at her residence in New Hope, MS. A Celebration of Life service will be held at a later ...

On July 5, 2025, Miriam Killebrew passed away peacefully in her home in Caledonia, Mississippi, at the age of 91. Miriam was born on December ...

Development projects in Oktibbeha ‘on the line’ without dirt borrow pit Aldermen deny request for special exception, after neighbor raises dust, noise issues ...

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Every year, roughly 230 of the state’s most gifted students flock to Columbus, prepared to take on the challenge of succeeding at Mississippi’s most academically rigorous high school.