Columbus News

Robin Jones is going to be strict. Jones, the owner of Columbus' two Sun Struck tanning salons, said she'd posted signs in every room three or four months ago about the new teen tanning law - as soon as she got word of news the Legislature had begun working on one.

In the city of Starkville, Joseph Goddard is a mosquito's worst enemy. The 22-year-old Mississippi State graduate has been on a mission to control the city's mosquito population for each of the past three summers.

About 65 jobs and a $25 million investment soon could be on its way to the Golden Triangle Industrial Park, members of the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors announced during a Tuesday meeting.

Columbus nurse Janice Lovelace, 40, admitted Friday she abused a patient at the Windsor Place Nursing and Rehab Center.

Despite what may have been record-setting heat, at least 1,000 people visited the Columbus Riverwalk on Saturday for the city's first annual unity picnic.

Main Street Columbus won two statewide awards, and a design award was named after a Columbus resident, at a banquet in Jackson on Thursday.

And then there were two. Mississippi University for Women President Claudia Limbert has whittled the options for the school's new name down to two.

Though the country's economic climate may have had a negative effect on some downtown Columbus businesses, the Friendly City's center during the last year seems to have bucked a national trend of economic uncertainty.

Columbus Municipal School District Superintendent Del Phillips is interested in becoming Mississippi's chief education policymaker.

A Columbus native, Dr. James Keeton, has been named as the interim vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Main Street Columbus has met state and national accreditation standards for yet another year.

Three local men are in jail today after they were arrested this week on weapons theft charges by the Columbus Police Department.

Columbus officials are 'on board' with the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors' Monday decision to seek property options from landowners in the 71-acre plot of land in the city's Burns Bottom area being considered for the county's sportsplex project.

Lowndes and its surrounding counties soon may be partnering to help fund the construction of a nursing school facility at East Mississippi Community College, members of the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors announced during a Monday meeting.

The Columbus Municipal School District is getting more than $2.8 million over three years to improve and expand its Advanced Placement programs.

She parks her truck in front of the old service station on University Drive four days a week, pulls out a chair and sets up her umbrella.

More than 1,000 downtown and East Columbus residents were without power for about an hour and a half Friday night, with a few without power until Saturday morning, as crews with the Columbus Light and Water Department rushed to repair damage from lightning strikes.

From the city's drainage issues to annexing portions of Lowndes County, newly re-elected Columbus Mayor Robert Smith has 'a lot on his plate' for the upcoming term.

A committee charged by Mississippi University for Women President Dr. Claudia Limbert to give her recommendations for a new name for the school saw the most promise in the names Reneau University and Waverley University, during a session held Thursday on campus.

A couple of local students are among more than 2,800 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.