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Six-year-old Bryanna Cook was honoured by Lowndes County supervisors for her bravery in helping emergency responders to find the car that the child and her mother were in after her mother had a stroke while driving in a rural area.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A 6-year-old Mississippi girl is being honored for helping emergency responders find her family’s car after her mother had a stroke while driving in a rural area. Bryanna Cook is a first grader at Fairview Elementary School in Columbus, and Lowndes County supervisors have adopted a resolution to honor her bravery, [...]

Someone wrote “Pulchritude and the Pundit” on the back of the old black and white photograph that I found while cleaning my office. It brought back a lot of memories. The pundit, Paul Flowers, is the man offering his cast for signatures. He was my favorite journalism professor and a columnist for the Commercial Appeal […]

The state of Mississippi placed a historical marker on the campus to honor students who integrated school in 1966.

For the third year in a row, the Mississippi Spelling Bee is going to be held in Columbus, and volunteer board members are looking to generate buzz and fundraise for the event.

The Columbus Riflemen were a storied Columbus military unit that had been organized in 1837. They had served with valor in the Mexican War, the Civil War and the Spanish American War. It was a distinctively Columbus unit with its armory located in city hall. In 1916 they and the Caledonia Rifles were the Lowndes County companies in the Mississippi National Guard. That all soon changed.

The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Lineberry, Cate - ISBN 10: 0316220221 - ISBN 13: 9780316220224 - Little, Brown US - 2013 - Hardcover

This spring, on a night like any other, Hollyhocks owner Gloria Herriott was fast asleep in her loft apartment above her downtown store when she felt something smack her in the head. She lifted the covers to find a bat hanging from the ceiling fan.

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Due to an editing mistake by The Dispatch, Columbus Councilman Pierre Beard’s ward was incorrectly referenced in a Wednesday letter to the editor by