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Ricky Ball Shooting: Ball family sues city, CPD officers
Ricky Ball's family has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Columbus and several Columbus Police Department officers.
TOP NEWS
Oktibbeha County Chancery Clerk Monica Banks dies
Monica Banks, Oktibbeha County's first African-American chancery clerk elected to office, died at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus Friday, Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant confirmed.
Brooks threatens lawsuit against CVB
Lowndes County District 5 Supervisor Leroy Brooks is threatening to sue the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau if the board does not pay the second half of a $7,500 grant it awarded for the local Juneteenth festival.
SOCSD supt. won't appeal convictions
Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Superintendent Lewis Holloway will not appeal two misdemeanor simple assault convictions handed down in Oktibbeha County Justice Court in August, his attorney, Roy Carpenter, confirmed Thursday.
Miss. Black Caucus to meet Saturday in Starkville
The Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus will hold a town hall meeting Saturday at the Starkville Sportsplex, one of a series of town halls the group has been holding throughout the state since the end of the legislative session in April.
OTHER RECENT HEADLINES
GRAMMY Museum director visits Columbus Exchange Club |
Columbus man arrested for allegedly stealing car |
Rebranded KiOR company settles with SEC |
Fifth Annual Community Day set for Saturday |
Councilmen, supervisors to talk CLRA |
Strawberry speaks about addiction, redemption |
Younger faces robbery charge in Clay |
The Sherman Business Report: National Coffee Day |
CAFB to host civilian 'fly-in' |
Civic duty brings election commissioners back to their posts |
Man arrested in Labor Day shooting |
Business brief: Storey hired |
Two arrested in separate felony domestic violence cases |
SPORTS
No. 9 EMCC routs Mississippi Delta |
EMCC, Mississippi Delta leave past behind them |
MSU baseball team announces 20-game fall slate |
No. 16 Ole Miss wary of undefeated Memphis |
Calvin proving he can be MSU's viper |
Caledonia faces Houston in Class 4A-Region 4 opener |
OPINIONS
Slimantics: Ban a book, rob a mind |
Lynn Spruill: Inspiring voter registration |
Voice of the people: Marion Whitley |
Voice of the people: Martha Kirkley |
Jaime Stiehm: Notes from a jumpy one-horse town |
Editorial cartoon for 9-30-16 |
LIFESTYLES
Mom with a mission: A New Hope mother's baking is about more than just food |
Game day grub can be harmful to pets |
Beef, cheese, poblano and beer -- an addictive burger emerges |
Art Walk Downtown returns to Columbus Thursday |
Drones 101: So you want to fly a drone. What next? |
Local vampire film to debut in Columbus |
NATIONAL NEWS
Dismissing risks, Trump goes all-in on Bill Clinton's past |
Clinton struggling to win over the young voters she needs |
Clinton's 'nasty' Trump ads are mostly his own words |
Hearing set for teenager held in South Carolina school shooting |
Obama saw override coming, but still it stung |
Gridlock in Congress may presage more of the same to come |
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1. Younger faces robbery charge in Clay AREA
2. Oktibbeha County Chancery Clerk Monica Banks dies STARKVILLE & OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
3. Columbus drops $16K on complaint defenses COLUMBUS & LOWNDES COUNTY
4. Ricky Ball Shooting: Ball family sues city, CPD officers COLUMBUS & LOWNDES COUNTY
5. CAFB to host civilian 'fly-in' COLUMBUS & LOWNDES COUNTY
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