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Business: As liquor store owners compete for hard-to-find bottles, some turn to bots

By Brian Jones • 2 days ago

Strange times call for strange measures.
In the world created by the pandemic, business owners have to struggle with a host of issues: tangled supply chains, strained manpower pools, shortages of pretty much everything. This is as true in the liquor industry as it is anywhere else, and, just like anyone else, liquor store owners are thinking outside the box.

DeRosa notches five top-10 finishes in APSE contest

By Dispatch Staff Report • 2 days ago

Theo DeRosa, Mississippi State University athletics beat writer for The Dispatch, earned top-10 finishes in five categories in the Associated Press Sports Editors Contest.

Starkville sanitation worker arrested for embezzlement

By Dispatch Staff Report • 2 days ago

A former sanitation department employee has been charged with embezzlement, a felony.

Transgender medication law in Alabama blocked by judge

By Kim Chandler/The Associated Press • 2 days ago

A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.

Mississippi woman acquitted in death of toddler stepdaughter

By The Associated Press • 2 days ago

A Mississippi woman has been found not guilty in the killing of her 14-month-old stepdaughter.

Moon goes blood red this weekend: ‘Eclipse for the Americas’

By Marcia Dunn/AP Aerospace Writer • 2 days ago

A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America.

Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future

By Ashraf Khalil and David Sharp/The Associated Press • 2 days ago

Supporters of abortion rights took to the streets across America on Saturday to make clear their anger at the prospect that the Supreme Court will soon strike down the constitutional right to abortion. Cries of “My body, my choice” rang out as activists committed to fighting for the legal protection that has endured for nearly a half-century.

Clarence Thomas says abortion leak has changed Supreme Court

By Jessica Gresko/The Associated Press • 2 days ago

Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month.

GOP’s new midterm attack: Blaming Biden for formula shortage

By Paul J. Weber/The Associated Press • 2 days ago

Republicans aiming to retake control of Congress have already sharpened a message centering around blaming Democrats for high inflation, expensive gas, migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and violent crime in some cities.

McConnell, GOP senators meet Zelenskyy in surprise Kyiv stop

By The Associated Press • 2 days ago

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a delegation of GOP senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv during an unannounced visit Saturday, delivering the latest show of American solidarity with the country at war with Russia.

New York AG lawyer: Evidence could support action vs. Trump

By Michael R. Sisak/The Associated Press • 2 days ago

As a federal judge weighs Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to halt a civil investigation into his business practices, a lawyer for the New York attorney general’s office said Friday that evidence found throughout the three-year probe could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.

Report: Trump officials, meat companies knew workers at risk

By Josh Funk/The Associated Press • 2 days ago

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep slaughterhouses open even as the virus spread rapidly among workers, according to a congressional report released Thursday.

Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on track to resume

By The Associated Press • 2 days ago

The Sandy Hook families’ lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax appear poised to resume soon, based on agreements revealed Friday in the bankruptcy cases of some of Jones’ companies.

SOCSD names Tony McGee new superintendent

By Jessica Lindsey • 3 days ago

Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District has chosen its new superintendent.

Man killed, woman injured in Waterworks shooting

By DISPATCH STAFF REPORT • 3 days ago

Columbus police are seeking a suspect in a Friday afternoon fatal shooting in an apartment on Waterworks Road. First responders were called to an apartment

CLW seeks $1M from city’s ARPA for sewer projects

By Brian Jones • May 13, 2022

Columbus Light and Water General Manager Angela Verdell appeared at the Columbus City Council’s Thursday work session to request about $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to put toward three wastewater projects.

Longtime Columbus icon honored with original song

By Brian Jones • May 13, 2022

“I dance better than I sing,” Mayor Keith Gaskin warned a crowd of about 25 well-wishers — and one poor guy who just wanted to eat lunch — Thursday afternoon at Zachary’s restaurant. He, along with local musician Hoot Wilder, then launched into a country-tinged song honoring one of Columbus’ most storied residents: Edwina “Mother Goose” Williams.

Police seek suspects who shot into a Northside house

By Dispatch Staff Report • May 13, 2022

Shots were fired into a house on Northside early this morning, according to Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton.

Mississippi school board upholds firing over ‘New Butt’ book

By The Associated Press • May 13, 2022

A Mississippi educator who was fired for reading a children’s book called “I Need a New Butt!” to second graders says he will go to court to try to get his job back.

Convicted ex-friar won’t be tried in 2nd sex abuse case

By The Associated Press • May 13, 2022

Mississippi prosecutors have dropped a second set of charges against a former Franciscan friar who was convicted last month of sexually abusing a student during the 1990s at a Catholic school.

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