4-County files lawsuit against Macon business owner

4-County Electric Power Association has filed a lawsuit against a Macon man over a real estate contract.

Man shot in domestic dispute

An apparent domestic dispute near downtown Columbus Friday morning sent a man to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle with a gunshot wound to the leg.

K9 catches armed robbery suspects in wooded area

Columbus police officers have arrested two alleged armed robbers and are looking for a third, Assistant Police Chief Shelton confirmed Wednesday.

Theft victim spots vehicle in salvage yard

The Columbus Police Department is searching for a local man in connection with a stolen vehicle and burglary of a commercial business.

LCSO arrests man for aggravated domestic assault

Lowndes County sheriff’s deputies arrested a local man Friday and charged him with domestic aggravated assault.

Columbus holds National Night Out events

Kids played hopscotch, adults won cakes in cake walks and police officers and firefighters mingled with citizens at the seven National Night Out sites around Columbus Tuesday night.

Columbus police searching for armed robber

Columbus police officers are searching for a man who allegedly robbed three women at gunpoint Saturday night.

CMSD Board member concerned about transparency in budget

Tempers flared at the Columbus Municipal School District board meeting Friday when board member Jason Spears argued the CMSD administration was not being transparent in regard to budget concerns.

Excessive heat combined with lack of rain could hurt crops

Looking hopefully at the gray clouds in the sky over his cotton field, Dwight Colson said Wednesday that if it didn’t rain over the field in the next two days or so, he would have to turn on his irrigation system to water the cotton he planted in the spring.

Presley speaks with landowners about energy project

In a public meeting at the Bell Schoolhouse Fire Station just outside Starkville Thursday, Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley urged residents to reach out to representatives from Southern Cross Transmission if they have questions about the company’s proposed wind energy transmission line.

Retailers prepare for tax free weekend

Stores in the Golden Triangle area are preparing for tax free weekend this upcoming Friday and Saturday.

Busted: Lowndes narcotics agents stay on top of drug crimes

Sean Hodges had a problem.

He was supposed to deliver 3.5 grams of meth to an acquaintance at a Dixie Auto Sales in Lowndes County one night in March.

Columbus prayer vigil held for police, family

A small crowd of people, including law enforcement officers and their family members, gathered in front of the Columbus Municipal Complex for a prayer vigil Friday morning.

Hollywood comes to Columbus

A little piece of Hollywood is coming to Columbus.

Columbus will be the film set to the independent movie “Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff,” said Robert Weinbach, the film’s producer and screenwriter.

CMSD commits Lee property for redevelopment

The Columbus Redevelopment Authority acquired an option to purchase the S.D. Lee Middle School property on Military Road, a move which the Columbus Municipal School District board unanimously approved at a special-called meeting Wednesday.

What happened to Mills Artis?

Brenda Durrett, local history assistant at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, was indexing court documents preserved in the library’s archives when she found a case unlike any she or archivist Mona Vance-Ali had ever come across.

Concerns raised over transmission line project

In a meeting with representatives from Southern Cross Transmission, North District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley told the representatives Thursday the company must meet one-on-one with landowners concerned about the company’s utility line project.

Anonymous donor sends 2 to MSMS

An anonymous donor has pledged $44,000 to the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, which will allow the school to accept two more students for the next two academic years.

MUW holds culinary program for high school teachers

In the kitchen of Mississippi University for Women’s culinary center, Heather Baumbach stood over a stove stirring a pan of chopped apples for the filling of a drop-biscuit apple dessert.

Columbus woman accused of DHS bomb threat

A Columbus woman who threatened to blow up the Department of Human Services on College Street is in custody.