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Li-ya Wilson, left, and Darien Hardy control their robots Iris and Lloyd as teacher assistant Kenna Henkel plays the characters’ pre-recorded lines from her laptop. A sound-system malfunction ...

A single-engine plane sits in a New Hope area pasture with a broken wing after a family of four crash landed around 4 p.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported, according to Lowndes County Fire ...

“Because we don’t have very good models to study on in a lab setting before we put things into humans, we see about 90% of the drugs that we’re testing on patients in clinical trials are ...

A municipal election voting precinct opened 30 minutes late Tuesday morning because an election worker’s vehicle containing ballots was repossessed overnight.

Aldermen denied an exception for Burns Dirt to open a borrow pit on Pat Station Road, after a resident of a nearby home on Tuesday night raised objections to the company’s operations in the area ...

Two men are dead after fatally shooting each other Thursday in the parking lot of the Quality Inn on Highway 12 in Starkville. Veshawn Williams, 25, of Columbus and Robert Mayfield, 27, of Memphis ...

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COLUMBUS — Arnold Chandler, 82, died June 28, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes Funeral Home ...