Local church hosts tent revival

Kingdom Vision International Church in Columbus spent the last four nights this week hosting a tent revival on South Frontage Road in Columbus.

Annual Roast-N-Boast to be held this weekend

The Kansas City Barbeque Society will hold its 14th annual Roast-N-Boast at the Columbus Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday.

MUW to hold annual event against domestic violence

Once a year at Mississippi University for Women, students gather and paint a pair of blue jeans.

The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center treats those struggling with a ‘lonely affliction’ — substance abuse

More than 20 million people in the United States are recovering from drug or alcohol addiction. There are 3 million people living in the state of Mississippi.

Motorists warned to watch for deer

Mississippi is the state with the eighth highest rate of collisions with deer.

Man charged with attempt to commit rape

A Columbus man has been arrested and charged with attempt to commit rape.

Recovery Center to hold annual block party

The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center invites the community to celebrate National Recovery Month at the Official Recovery Month Block Party at the center’s Main Street location in Columbus on Saturday.

MUW, EMCC talk campus security

Following recent active shooter situations on university campuses in Mississippi, colleges in the Golden Triangle are looking at ways to ramp up campus security.

Columbus man accused of New Hope thefts

Authorities say that for the past several weeks, a Columbus man has been breaking into New Hope Elementary School’s kindgergarten-3rd grade building stealing cleaning supplies and then re-selling them around town.

Our first department store: Woolco opened 50 years ago today

Fifty years ago today, the doors of Woolco, the first Columbus department store, opened for customers.

It was, as former employees put it, a “madhouse.”