Former officer who drove patrol car to apply for out-of-town job sues city, councilmen

A former investigator with Columbus Police Department has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and Ward 2 Councilman Joseph Mickens, among other council members, claiming the council fired him unjustly last year.

Monday Profile: 20-year-old among youngest to graduate from MUW’s undergrad nursing program

When Christina Clark graduated from Mississippi University for Women in a virtual commencement ceremony on May 9, she was the youngest person with a Bachelors of Science degree in nursing this year — and possibly ever — to do so.

MSU, MUW plan to bring students back to campus for fall semester

Officials at both Mississippi State University and Mississippi University for Women are making plans to have students back on campus for the fall semester.

Low supply pushes beef, pork prices higher

Jamie Baldwin noticed Wednesday when she went grocery shopping that it was a little harder than usual to “find something worth her buck.”

Court of appeals reverses judge’s decision to grant new trial to murder convict

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has reversed a two-year-old decision by an Oktibbeha County circuit court judge to grant a new trial to a woman convicted in 2011 of killing her husband.

Defendants reporting for court Monday asked to sign in outside

Court officials are asking those reporting to the Lowndes County Courthouse for the first day of circuit court term on Monday to sign in outside rather than enter the building, in an attempt to control the size of crowds in the courthouse and help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Locally available antibody tests could show exposure to COVID

Amy Bogue is reasonably confident she’s never had COVID-19.

Police search for four suspects in carjacking, police pursuit

Columbus investigators are searching for four suspects accused of carjacking and later crashing the stolen vehicle into a South Columbus church building.

Higgins suggests EMCC sell Lion Hills

A Lowndes County member of the East Mississippi Community College’s Board of Trustees said he would have raised the idea of selling Lion Hills Center and Golf Course in an executive session of the board’s meeting Monday night, had the board not voted down his motion to enter closed determination for the second month in a row.

GTECHS will not accept incoming freshman class

Golden Triangle Early College High School will not accept an incoming freshman class for the 2020-21 school year.

Area circuit courts having terms with no trials

Oktibbeha County Circuit Court looks very different this term.

Private, homeschool students make up 13 percent at GTECHS

Between 2017 and 2019, about 13 percent of area eighth graders who applied to the Golden Triangle Early College High School on East Mississippi Community College’s Mayhew campus did not come from public schools.

UMMC, MSDH to set up drive-thru testing site in Columbus

Lowndes County residents who complete a health screening with a University of Mississippi Medical Center clinician over the next two days will have a chance to be tested for COVID-19 coronavirus at a state-sponsored drive-thru testing site at Fairview Baptist Church on Saturday.

Man charged with murder in Monday shooting

One person has died and another is in custody following a Monday shooting in South Columbus.

‘The Innocence Files’ takes aim at Allgood’s use of bite-mark evidence

On Feb. 15, 2008, sitting in a Noxubee County courtroom packed with attorneys, law enforcement, reporters and community members, Judge Lee Howard told Kennedy Brewer — who had been in prison for 15 years — that he was free.

Coroner confirms first COVID-19 death in Lowndes County

A man at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle died of COVID-19 Thursday morning, marking Lowndes County’s first death from the virus.

CMSD investigating if GTECHS took private school students, state money

The Columbus Municipal School District board voted at a special-call meeting Monday to authorize Superintendent Cherie Labat and board attorney David Dunn to investigate whether state funds allocated for the district have paid for private school students to attend the Golden Triangle Early College High School.

Some area farmers doing good business, seeing more customers during pandemic

Before the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus forced restaurants to suspend dine-in services or close altogether, Miller Kinstley was selling 95 percent of the eggs his hens laid to Restaurant Tyler in Starkville.

Now that business has stopped. But Kinstley is still selling out of eggs.

Empty terminal, flights show the effect of pandemic at GTR

When Lisa Lemasters boarded the 2:40 p.m. Delta Airlines flight from Golden Triangle Regional Airport to Atlanta Tuesday afternoon, she was one of only four passengers on the plane.

Mississippi Blood Services to hold two blood drives in Golden Triangle

Mississippi Blood Services is asking for donors to give blood at one of two drives in the Golden Triangle over the next two days.