Documents claim Karriem punched daughter’s head

Kabir Karriem’s adult daughter has accused the state representative of punching her three times in the head, according to documents the city of Columbus provided to The Dispatch Friday afternoon.

Home Base: Pushing up Daisies

“So how serious were you when you said you wanted to help?”

Debate arises over Walmart TIF

Proposed tax increment financing to aid a Walmart Neighborhood Market project in northeast Starkville met resistance Tuesday evening during a public hearing at City Hall.

WTVA files open meetings complaint against Lowndes Co.

The news director for the Tupelo-based WTVA television station has filed an open meetings complaint against Lowndes County with the Mississippi Ethics Commission.

Columbus electrical rates to increase

Columbus Light and Water customers will see a 1.5 percent rate increase on their electric bills starting Oct. 1.

Traveler finds pickleball match in Columbus

Traveling 6,000 miles in a 15-foot dinghy is sure to place David Pike in a number of pickles.

That’s precisely the point.

Home Base: Take time to remember before it’s too late

A soldier stood alone among headstones in a south Arkansas cemetery playing “Taps” on Saturday, while another waited by an American flag-draped casket that sat in front of a mourning family.

State flags no longer fly at MSU

The Mississippi flag is effectively removed from exterior public display at Mississippi State University.

Bud and Burgers event canceled

A planned Bud and Burgers fundraiser for the Columbus Main Street Association has been canceled.

Home Base: Ignorance is bliss

Facebook scrolling can be a sobering experience. If I hadn’t learned that before, I knew it Sunday night.

Kelly keeps up fight against ‘too stringent’ regulations

The rent for Trent Kelly’s 550-square-foot apartment in Washington, D.C., is higher than the mortgage payment for his family home in Saltillo.

Successful comic, toy expo sets stage for future events

Most days, Chase Gray is a pharmacist in Memphis, Tennessee.

Home Base: Relieved of morning duties

“Daddy, I feel like I’m blind, and I literally feel dizzy. I feel like I don’t know where I am, and I feel like it’s Wednesday instead of Thursday.”

Hickman: Job description for uncle’s would-be post ‘fake’

A text exchange included in federal court documents indicates Columbus Municipal School District Superintendent Philip Hickman admitting to faking a job description for the director of schools position before recommending a family member to fill the post.

Dak Prescott acquitted of DUI, speeding

Dak Prescott will begin training camp for his rookie season with the Dallas Cowboys Thursday with no criminal proceedings clouding the occasion.

Home Base: Dinner table debate, a family tradition

Back home in Arkansas on Saturday evening, everything was as it should’ve been: dinner on the table and lively political banter roaring back and forth across the dining room.

Area schools face teacher shortages

With students returning to school in less than two weeks, some area districts are scrambling to fill multiple last-minute teaching vacancies before classes begin.

Questions resurface about Hickman texts

A former Columbus resident is claiming that sexual text messages Columbus Municipal School District Superintendent Philip Hickman once decried as fake are actually real.

Clinkscales candidacy may violate judicial code

The head of Mississippi’s Commission on Judicial Performance is openly questioning whether a Columbus municipal judge can stay on the bench while seeking election to the state Legislature.

Two Harrison supporters launch write-in campaigns for Dist. 41

Two candidates have stepped up to face Ward 5 Columbus councilman Kabir Karriem as write-in candidates for District 41 representative.