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COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Leaders of an eastern Mississippi city have opened a time capsule that local residents buried nearly 50 years ago in anticipation of this years bicentennial celebration.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi city is planning to spend most of its federal pandemic relief money on parks and recreation, and critics say elected officials are ignoring people who need housing.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi city is planning to spend most of its federal pandemic relief money on parks and recreation, and critics say elected officials are ignoring people who need housing.

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Letter: Supports Keith Gaskin for mayor By George Hazard • 6 hours ago When you look at the present contest for mayor, three parts of Keith Gaskin’s platform are especially attractive: infrastructure; public safety; and community and culture. The city’s infrastructure is the aspect of Columbus life that we all see. Except for the comparatively independent Columbus Light and Water Department, that aspect of city life is discouraging wherever we look. Snake-like braids of hair lay on Colle...

Relocation of Confederate monument begins in Mississippi May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Workers are in the process of moving a Confederate monument in northeast Mississippi. Crews spent part of the weekend taking down the monument outside the Lowndes County Courthouse, news outlets reported. It includes statues of three soldiers, and has been there since 1912. Lowndes County supervisors voted last summer to move the Confederate soldier statue away from the courthouse...

TUPELO • Key political figures are charting different paths as they navigate the fallout of a state Supreme Court ruling that voided a popular medical marijuana program and struck down the ability of voters to directly amend the state constitution. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said on Tuesday that he supports legislative action to create a medical marijuana program as a replacement for the Initiative 65 program voters approved last year. According to video, Hosemann told reporters there ma...

Johnny Cash receives Mississippi Country Music Trail marker May 16, 2021 GMT FILE - In this Sept. 17, 1997, file photo, singer Johnny Cash testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on copyright infringement in Washington. The Man in Black is about to get his own day in Arkansas. The Arkansas House on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, gave unanimous final approval to a bill that would make Feb. 26 "Johnny Cash Day," sending it to Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who plans to sign it. (AP...

Ecolab to close its Mississippi facility next year May 13, 2021 GMT COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A company that’s been making surgical instruments and equipment in Mississippi since 2007 announced plans to close its facility next year. Ecolab, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, will close its facility in Columbus by mid-2022, said spokesman Roman Blahoski, The Commercial Dispatch reported. “The pandemic impacted our surgical business, due to the broad cancellation of elective surgical procedures dur...

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