State football championships head to MSU, Ole Miss

For the first time, the spotlight that comes with the Mississippi High School Activities Association's state championship football games will shine on the state's brightest stages.

Oktibbeha supes sign off on Communiversity plan

The Golden Triangle Development LINK secured the last local-level funding commitment for a proposed East Mississippi Community College workforce development center Monday as Oktibbeha County supervisors pledged $2.5 million across 15 years for the project.

CVB pitches in $21K for sidewalk connector lights

Members of the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Directors voted to provide $21,136 for supplies that will be used to install ornamental lighting on the connecting sidewalk between the Riverwalk and the Columbus Soccer Complex.

Local church hopes to start food backpack program

A local church group is hoping to feed 40 elementary students who would otherwise go without meals on the weekends.

Supervisors OK new nightclub ordinance

Supervisors unanimously approved a new nightclub ordinance Monday that will require new bars, restaurants and entertainment venues in Oktibbeha County to obtain yearly operating permits and follow minimum life-safety standards.

OTHER RECENT HEADLINES

Hearing set on Miss. welfare drug-testing law |

County to address LINK, Communiversity requests today |

Monday profile: Area attorney has unique insight on immigration |

Permits granted for New Hope sewer expansion |

Neshoba Fair could shape Senate race |

Severstal plant sold to Indiana company |

Graceland Too tours, MacLeod memorial to be Aug. 12 |

Man accused of posing as fed to rob immigrants |

Tax numbers in West Point signal bright future |

Lowndes voters to decide school bond issue |

 

 

Millage decrease unlikely with infusion of school money |

Columbus sales tax collections up nearly $100K |

McDaniel: GOP should be 'purged' after Senate race |

Police recover Hood's stolen handgun |

Arrest report: 7-20-14 |

Jails rethink layout as female inmate numbers rise |

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SPORTS

All-Area Large Schools Girls Basketball: Sanders carries New Hope basketball back to Jackson |

All-Area Large Schools Girls Basketball: Schaefer makes lasting contributions at Starkville |

All-Area Large Schools Girls Basketball: Holman carries New Hope back to Mississippi Coliseum |

Starkville Academy softball ready for season opener |

Noxubee County begins search for new basketball coach |

MSU welcomes chance to host state championship football games |

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OPINIONS

Slimantics: The man who wouldn't go home |

Rheta Johnson: You got TRBL |

Froma Harrop: Will the blabbermouths wake Democrats up? |

Possumhaw: It was a big fish |

Charlie Mitchell: When not meddling itself, government protects our privacy |

Thomas Sowell: A primer on race |

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LIFESTYLES

Trending now -- Area grands put their personal spin on summer camp |

Being Beautiful: Knowing the right questions to ask your hairstylist |

A Stone's throw: About grandfathers |

Step right up for a double dose of entertainment |

Chance to audition for 'American Idol' coming to Meridian |

186th Tabernacle camp meeting hosts community events |

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NATIONAL NEWS

Lawmakers face long to-do list, uncertain success |

Rebels release train with bodies from downed Malaysian jet |

Hopkins pays $190M in pelvis exam pix settlement |

Police probe other attacks after transients killed |

Poor teens' health may benefit from top schools |

Israeli soldier missing as Gaza fighting rages on |

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