Articles by Custom Source
Col. Barre Seguin takes charge of CAFB in ceremony steeped in tradition
Command of the 14th Flying Training Wing passed from one colonel to another on Wednesday during a ceremony rooted in military tradition.
Navistar plant in West Point announces layoffs
Navistar plans to cut approximately 340 employees from its West Point plant by next week, according to the manufacturer.
Jones: Parole board’s work releasing inmates touchy, but essential
The parole board is a touchy subject. In each decision to release a convicted criminal into the outside world, there will inevitably be supporters and dissenters.
Feeling the heat: Unusually hot, dry summer has farmers worried, schools taking precautions
As knowledge about the dangers of extreme heat becomes common knowledge, school officials are vigilant about keeping students safe, as football and band practice begins. But there’s another population who can’t move out of harm’s way.
Ala. firefighter suspended in flushed babies probe
A member of the Odenville fire department was placed on administrative leave after two premature stillborn infants were flushed down a toilet.
Trustmark boosts second-quarter profit
Regional banker Trustmark Corp. nearly doubled its second-quarter profit through the combination of more revenue and reductions in problem loans, the company reported.
Columbus woman wins $27,201, advances on ‘Jeopardy’
A professor at Mississippi University for Women advanced on the quiz show “Jeopardy!” today, winning $27,201 on the popular syndicated television show.
Sheriff: Premature infants flushed down toilet
The St. Clair County sheriff says a grand jury will review an investigation that turned up the bodies of two premature infants that had been flushed down a toilet.
County schools handle land question in closed session
Oktibbeha County school officials met in a very brief open meeting at noon Monday, not to discuss postponed budget issues, but to go in to closed session to handle some business.
Package for Ala. grandma contains 6 pounds of pot
A package addressed from “Grandpa Henderson” in San Diego, Calif., to “Grandma Henderson” in Talladega, Ala., wasn’t ordinary mail, and it wasn’t picked up by any grandmother.
Columbus’ Corrigan to appear on ‘Jeopardy’ Tuesday
Mississippi University for Women English professor, Dr. Nora Corrigan, will appear on the game show, “Jeopardy,” set to air locally at 11 a.m. Tuesday on WLOV-TV.
Swim Columbus, Shockwave have multiple winners
CLEVELAND — Swim Columbus’ Corey Persons, Aaron Meek, and Ladd Chain and Shockwave’s Hannah Wilson, Robert Fisher, Matt Williams, and Rachel Dees posted first-place finishes Sunday on the final day of the Long Course State Championships at Delta State University.
Persons won the 13- to 14-year-old boys 100-meter backstroke in a time of 1 minute, 5.88 seconds. He also finished fifth in the 50 free (28.22).
Meek won the 11-12 boys 50 back with a time of 36.08, while Chain won the 11-12 boys 50 freestyle (28.02) and the 11-12 boys 100 butterfly (1:12.05).
Summer in the South: Farmer’s watermelon stand sells summer staple the old-fashioned way
CALEDONIA — Henry I. Collins pinches the blade of his jackknife and pulls it open. He sticks it in the watermelon in front of him and cuts it lengthwise. The two halves split with a crisp, satisfying crunch and roll with the seeds up.
The perfect score: Heritage Academy student scores 36 on ACT exam
Hardly anyone in America can say they got a perfect score on a standardized test. But Timmy Lind, a junior at Heritage Academy, did the nearly unthinkable. He scored a 36 on his ACT.
MUW to participate in National Night Out
Mississippi University for Women will be up late Aug. 3 to party against crime.
Masked men hold up early-morning partiers
Two masked men held up a group of approximately 10 partiers in a Columbus apartment Saturday morning.
George Hazard: ‘Matterhorn’ answers wait for Vietnam novel
Two groups have been waiting for Matterhorn, subtitled, “a novel of the Vietnam War,” by Karl Marlantes. Veterans of that war are much the more important group, waiting to see if a novel could convey the nonsense of that war, its nonsense, given its constraints on their military power and its stress on body counts rather than territorial objectives — and convey a realistic reckoning with their suffering and loyalty.
Richardson to present Welty program Tuesday
In celebration of the Eudora Welty photographic exhibit currently open at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Emma Richardson will present “Welty’s Schoolteachers: Heroic Portraits” Tuesday, July 27, at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room of the library at 314 Seventh St. N.
Holiday Handcrafts Bazaar accepting vendor applications
July 12, 2025
By
