Columbus News

Columbus paid tribute to its fighting men and women Saturday by putting them front and center for its annual Veteran's Day Parade and Celebration.

Beth Proffitt has been named The Dispatch's new advertising director, in charge of serving both local and national clients.

Joe Seger is a learned man. Director of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University, professor of religion, authority in Middle Eastern pre-history, holder of multiple degrees - including one from Harvard University.

With alumni divided over a name change and talk the school might be more useful as a satellite campus of another university, Mississippi University for Women faces many challenges, but local legislators agree it's an institution with a potentially bright future.

Columbus Fire and Rescue has joined forces with Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs for the 22nd year of the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery campaign.

Freda Stacy sat on a park bench in Caledonia Sunday afternoon, remembering her 'wonderful, wonderful granddaughter.' Since the Oct.

A Columbus man was picked up recently by the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office on seven counts of narcotics sales.

The family of Clarence 'Big C' Trimble wants a life for a life. Trimble was robbed and murdered early Saturday morning at his club, Big C's Game Room, on Stinson Creek Road in Lowndes County.

Military Road is seeing growing pains, but those closest to the historic thoroughfare are showing patience.

A Columbus man was arrested last week for relieving himself in public. Dexter Calvin Fulton, 42, 1011 Fourth St.

Civil disobedience was a way of life. Freedom songs reverberated, setting the tone for sit-ins and protest marches.

With the state's next legislative session two and a half months away, questions abound as to whether or not renaming Mississippi University for Women will be on the agenda.

COLUMBUS, Miss. - A collection of about 270 items by or about Eudora Welty has been donated to Mississippi University for Women.

Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers assisted in the arrest of eight individuals and helped recover $4,000 worth of stolen property in the last month.

A nationwide campaign aims to shock those who would buy alcohol for underage drinkers.

Henry Armstrong, the Columbus native who is considered one of the all-time greats in professional boxing, is among the 2010 inductees to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.

The location of Brian Holliman's trial rests in the judge's hands. Lowndes County Circuit Court Judge Lee Howard heard arguments from defense attorney Steve Farese and District Attorney Forrest Allgood Tuesday during a hearing to determine if Holliman's murder trial should be moved out of Lowndes County in the interest of providing a fair trial.

The Columbus Police Department arrested a Columbus man Monday morning after witnesses reported he exposed himself outside Stokes-Beard Elementary School.

COLUMBUS, Miss. - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey will deliver the opening address Thursday for the 2009 Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women.

The mission to rename Mississippi University for Women will likely lose momentum now that MUW President Claudia Limbert has announced she'll retire next year.