The Dispatch’s Best of the Triangle readers’ choice contest is the area’s longest-running recognition of the most popular businesses and professionals in the Golden Triangle. Businesses who want to ...

Clarence Carter, the blues and soul musician and singer-songwriter with the raspy, emotional vocals whose hits included the ...

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Monday, at Calvert Funeral Home, with James Towery officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Garden Cemetery in West Point. Visitation will be one hour prior to ...

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, at Cockrell Funeral Home. Cockrell Funeral Home of Macon is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Pruitt was born Feb. 2, 1968, in Monticello, Arkansas, to the late ...

COLUMBUS – Bertha Colvin Heard, 70, died May 2, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Northside M.B. Church, with Terrance Windham ...

LOWNDES COUNTY – Gregory “Black Boy” Roby, 46, died May 7, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at New Vision School in Macon, ...

WEST POINT – Frank Albert Anderson, 77, died May 4, 2026, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at St. Paul M.B. Church, with Eddie A. Longstreet officiating.

WEST POINT – Cheryl Yuhintis Lenoir, 62, died April 24, 2026, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Baptist Grove M.B. Church in Prairie, with ...

LAFAYETTE COUNTY – A Columbus Municipal School District school safety officer was arrested Monday on drug distribution charges by the U.S. Marshals Office. Bryan Holliness, 39, the school safety ...

COLUMBUS – Tommy Turner, 61, died May 5, 2026, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at New Jerusalem Church in Shuqualak. Visitation will be from 2 ...

OXFORD — A court decision reversal released Thursday will allow a lawsuit filed against the NCAA by former Ole Miss football staffer David Saunders to continue its process after it was initially ...

COLUMBUS – FORGE Golden Triangle Chapter proudly hosted a Career Signing Ceremony on Thursday at East Mississippi Community College’s Golden Triangle Campus, recognizing students from the construction ...