Browning on Business: Historic Columbus business facing tough time

If no buyer steps forward to purchase Sanderson Plumbing Products by the end of April the Columbus business will shutdown.

Former city employee facing more charges

A former city employee has been arrested for a third time for charges relating to identity theft.

Katrina Porter was arrested Monday by Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office investigators.

Columbus man charged with aggravated assault

A 50-year-old Columbus man is facing aggravated assault charges after an incident on Strawberry Street last weekend.

Starkville man dies in Hwy. 45 crash

A one-vehicle wreck on Highway 45 North in Columbus has claimed the life of a Starkville man.

Authorities pronounced Undra Williams dead after transporting him to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle shortly after 10 a.m Tuesday.

Crawfish supply, prices affected by cold weather

In three decades of selling crawfish, Curt Crissey has never seen prices this high.

Imagination Library begins in Columbus

A free book mailed each month to every child under the age of 5 in Lowndes County.

That is the ultimate goal of Lowndes County Imagination Library, a non-profit effort The Dispatch launched last week in partnership with the Arts Council.

Browning on Business: RadioShack mum on which stores it will close

Two questions.

One: Could the Golden Triangle soon lose its RadioShacks?

Two: Could Columbus be home to a new burger joint?

Caledonia considering annexation possibilities

The town of Caledonia has taken a tentative step toward annexation.

During their monthly meeting Tuesday night, the town’s board of aldermen voted to have Oxford-based firm Bridge & Watson Inc., conduct a comprehensive study on what would happen if Caledonia’s town limits were expanded.

Airbus expanding operations in Columbus

More helicopters are about to begin being made in the Golden Triangle.

On Tuesday, Guillaume Faury, the president and CEO of Airbus Helicopters, announced that the company will begin producing AS350 AStar helicopters at its plant in the Golden Triangle Industrial Park.

Laws, renowned surgeon and Columbus native, dead at 81

Henry Laws, the son of a Columbus drugstore owner who went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School and become a nationally renowned doctor who a colleague dubbed a “surgeon’s surgeon,” has died.

Gone, but not forgotten: Cemeteries help tell the story of the area’s black history

State officials this month will consider nominating a place known as the Starkville Colored Cemetery to the National Register of Historic Places.

It sits less than a mile from the Oktibbeha County Courthouse. No one knows who owns it, though.

Browning on Business: Barbecue restaurant back open in Columbus

An east Columbus barbecue restaurant is back.

The Pit and Cone opened its doors at 710 Alabama St. on Friday. The restaurant was located at 302 Tuscaloosa Rd. for years but closed in mid-January.

Free fallin’: Family says alleged bank robbery was a desperate act in a life that had spiraled out of control

When Ashby Barton came to Columbus two weeks ago to enter treatment for his addictions he hoped to bring a photograph of his late girlfriend.

He put it in a box, along with some other items. The picture of his girlfriend, though, which was taken before she died in a December car crash, was most important to Barton.

Browning on Business: Main Street welcoming new shops

Downtown Columbus has happenings. Let’s go west to east on Main Street.

West Lowndes County to enter GAP program

Lowndes County supervisors have passed a resolution paving the way for a portion of west Lowndes County to take part in an incentive program that will give businesses that locate to the area a tax break.

Valentine’s Day: The business of love

The weather this week broke in time for the business of love.

Curbside Valentine’s Day gift sellers popped up as fast as a spring fling in Columbus on Thursday. Most offer goodies in baskets wrapped in clear plastic. What goodies? The ones that signal affection, which is what we do today.

Browning on Business: Columbus farm equipment dealer sold

Martin Truck & Tractor, in operation since 1933, has been sold.

H&R Agri-Power announced Tuesday that it acquired the Columbus farm equipment dealer located on Hwy. 182 East.

Golden Triangle wakes up to slippery roads

Icy and slippery roads and bridges were being reported across much of the Golden Triangle this morning.

A little after 8 a.m., the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department responded to at least two wrecks, both were rollovers with passenger ejections, according to local scanner traffic.

Roberson, longtime Dispatch photographer, dies at 71

Ray L. Roberson, a photographer whose personable nature made him a good newspaper man and well-liked Columbus character, died shortly after midnight Sunday at Community Hospice in Verona, Ala.

He was 71.

Another round of cold, wet weather

The Golden Triangle is expected to freeze tonight.

The National Weather Service in Jackson this morning issued a winter storm warning for Lowndes, Oktibehha and Clay counties that will begin at 6 p.m. tonight and stay in place until 6 p.m. Tuesday.