The Dispatch

Locally-owned newspaper and website serving Columbus and Starkville, Mississippi, and the greater Golden Triangle area

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As a child, Jennifer Hartness gravitated to reading, getting lost in the stories. By high school, her creative writing teacher helped her fashion stories of her own, through prose and poetry. Hartness could never make a grade higher than 99 in the class... https://t.co/vqNczaj02N

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Will Plunkett, a worker with Econ Construction, flattens dirt over recently placed drains Monday near the corner of Main and Jackson streets in Starkville. The drains were placed as part of the Main Street revitalization project, which is projected to be finished by the end of...

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Mississippi's attorney general says a Senatobia officer was justified in using force when he responded to a shoplifting call and fired at a moving vehicle that investigators said was driving toward police, killing a 1-year-old boy who was inside the car... https://t.co/ciNtY0AODu

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The regular football season is heading down its final stretch with conference games heating up for all area teams, many of which are already nearing the postseason. On Friday, Oak Hill Academy and Noxubee County grabbed bounce-back wins while West Point... https://t.co/3bsMyR55Lk

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Walk-on Billy Puckett went 16-for-26 with 121 yards and an interception, and the Bulldogs had five turnovers on downs as MSU endured its first shutout loss since 2020. Taylor would have likely played better and almost undoubtedly made the blowout a bett... https://t.co/LQ7DlBVxsT

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Jeff Lebby will again let Wednesday's SEC availability report speak for Kamario Taylor's status.

The report has served as the primary source of Taylor's status as MSU's star quarterback deals with a lower right leg injury, and will continue to "speak f... https://t.co/i4z7RX1x3L

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Harris will campaign with Colom on Thursday, with events in Clarksdale then a rally set to begin at 6 p.m. in Columbus.

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Fullbacks have become a lost position in football. Once a popular position held by one of a team's hardest-hitting, hardest-running ball carriers who thrived on running defenders over in short-yardage situations or heading the charge as a lead blocker, ... https://t.co/VaUxtkZhOX

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From left, Elizabeth Andrews takes a photo of Linda Pratt, Valerie Weaver and Carol Doss in front of the Black Voters Matter Bus parked beside the Lowndes County Courthouse Pavilion on Monday to assist those planning to cast an absentee ballot in the Nov. 3 general election.
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Colom, the 16th Circuit district attorney from Columbus, raised about $1.3 million since July 1, with more than 90% of those contributions coming from individuals. https://t.co/NLuR125QJU

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Landyn Joel Brooks, 18, is charged with accessory after the fact. He was arrested late Thursday for assisting the alleged shooter, Jaquarious Dionta Brooks, also 18, in destroying evidence.
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No column on southern politics would be complete without a little wisdom shared by David Crockett. He was a past master of the stump speech. In most small rural communities there was no suitable place in which political speech could be delivered.
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"I was just trying to educate myself on how all of this worked (and) what best practices are," County Administrator Wayne Carpenter said. "… I've never done it before; I mean this is certainly not my area of expertise."
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"This is the prettiest mural I have ever seen!! I cannot wait to see it finished," one commenter wrote. "Whoever painted this is truly gifted."
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The Dispatch doesn't endorse candidates routinely, but it does when one candidate is distinctly the better choice for an important office.
This Senate race is one of those cases.
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Yes, romance is the springboard for dating, but marriage is a bit more involved. ... To marry another person is to say, "Here's my heart, please don't hurt me."
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The Kamario Taylorless, Fluff Bothwelless offense had 291 total yards but suffered MSU's first shutout loss since 2020 in a 31-0 rout to LSU. MSU had six turnovers, five turnovers on downs on five straight drives.
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Emergency crews responded around 7 p.m. Wednesday to the basketball court shortly after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting, Coroner Greg Merchant wrote in a text to members of the media. They found Jaraquist Cunningham, 18, dead on the sc... https://t.co/QK3nZsa2c1

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Conference games continue for many area football teams, highlighted by a Region 1-5A matchup between New Hope and Columbus in The Dispatch's Game of the Week. https://t.co/Rdy4jEW2oC

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The proposal, which the council will consider during its Tuesday meeting at the Municipal Complex, seeks to solve a longstanding problem for Mississippi University for Women, which has no baseball field on campus and no room to build a new one.

If the ... https://t.co/wSqTuiDXXB