Suspect arrested in East Columbus shooting

A man was arrested Saturday afternoon in connection with a Friday night shooting in East Columbus that left a minor hospitalized.

Building a human heart in a lab could be just 2 years away

A Mississippi University for Women alumna and a regenerative medical researcher believes building a functioning heart in a lab for transplant is about two years away from becoming reality.

Radar-sensing tech could find unmarked graves at Sandfield

In the flat, open lot of Sandfield Cemetery, roughly 14 grassy acres are dotted with disjointed headstones – many broken or tilted – while an unknown number of other graves remain unmarked.

CVB survey underway to steer local tourism growth

The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau expects to have a clearer idea of how to market the city and county by the end of the month.

Dispatchers: The ‘unsung heroes of emergency response’

Angelisha Langford, a dispatch supervisor with Lowndes County Emergency Management Agency, will never forget a call she received within her first six months on the job.

Man charged with statutory rape from 5 years ago

A suspect has been charged in a statutory rape that allegedly occurred five years ago on the 2400 block of Main Street.

City approves sale of surplus Southside lots

A few houses down from the one he grew up in on Fifth Avenue South, Jerome Stephenson remembers playing basketball on a court at a nearby property.

The day the last shuttle dropped in on Columbus

Columbus Air Force Base only had two hours notice before the space shuttle Atlantis, mounted atop a modified Boeing 747, landed on its runway.

Public invited to MUW presidential search listening sessions

The search for a new president of Mississippi University for Women kicks off next week, beginning with a chance for stakeholders to share their input.

Education: Raising future readers

Man charged in Railroad Street stabbing

Police have arrested a man accused of stabbing a victim multiple times on Friday during a fight.

Columbus arts exchange strikes chord with growing crowd

Richard Brown, a retired professor of entomology at Mississippi State University, made his way up the stairs of the Omnova Theater stage Saturday at the Rosenzweig Arts Center.

Spring Pilgrimage this year brings beginnings, endings and revivals

Cemeteries, southern architecture, blues singers and forgoing electricity in favor of candlelight. That’s right. Spring Pilgrimage is back.

West Lowndes group raises more than $14K for students

About nine months ago, members of the West Lowndes community gathered together and asked themselves: Who are we? What is our purpose?

TSA PreCheck enrollment returns to GTRA next week

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‘I see you’: Survivor shares story of childhood trafficking

Throughout her childhood and adolescence, Heidi Evensen said she was exploited by adults who took explicit photos and sexually abused her.

Trees in Burns Bottom coming down soon

In a month or so, most – or maybe all – of the trees in the old Burns Bottom neighborhood will come down to make room for the Parkview redevelopment.

2 arrested in Columbus shooting; another charged in Facebook Marketplace scam

Two suspects are in custody in connection with a March 24 shooting, while a suspect in a separate case was arrested Monday for running a Facebook Marketplace car scam.

LCF task forces reconvene to aid community issues

John Almond, founder and executive director of Dream Center Golden Triangle, still remembers bringing up the idea of the nonprofit’s Bedz4Kidz program in 2018 to the Lowndes Community Foundation task forces.