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What is a spelling bee? Yes, it’s a spelling competition where everyone wishes to get a word they can spell, so they can be the one to remain in the contest.

Tess Vrbin is a reporter with the nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization Arkansas Advocate. It is part of the States Newsroom which is supported by grants and a coalition of readers and donors.

Tess Vrbin is a reporter with the nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization Arkansas Advocate. It is part of the States Newsroom which is supported by grants and a coalition of readers and donors.

The Dispatch will begin charging for single copies of its Starkville edition beginning Oct. 16, Publisher Peter Imes announced.

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Forty years after Mississippi University for Women started enrolling men, its president says the school should consider choosing a more inclusive name. Previous attempts to remove “women” from the name, including the most recent one in 2009, have brought strong backlash from alumni of the school, nicknamed the W.

Mississippi University for Women is considering to remove “women” from its name, as the college has enrolled male students for the last 40 years.

Forty years after Mississippi University for Women started enrolling men, its president says the school should consider choosing a more inclusive name

COLUMBUS, Mississippi: Forty years after Mississippi University for Women started enrolling men, its president says the school should consider choosin...

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.