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Today, the average Mississippi student graduates with around $30,000 of student loan debt— and that number is only increasing. In fact, it's rising faster in Mississippi than in any other state. That's why our office conducted a survey recently to learn more about Mississippi parents' plans when it comes to saving for college.

A sixth grade student from Starkville is the 2022 Mississippi Spelling Bee champion.

In 1922, Vinton Birney Imes had some ambitious plans but, he confessed, no clear timetable to achieve them.

The first 25 rounds that started Saturday morning had spilled into the afternoon, slowly whittling the 28 spellers down to three.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman will serve 40 years in prison after pleading...

We, Columbus and Lowndes County brave citizens have voiced our opinions knowingly and willingly through our number one media, The Commercial Dispatch,

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — An east-central Mississippi county said it did not violate the state's Open Meetings Act when it held multiple nonquorum meetings with engineers earlier this month to discuss potential improvements to the Oktibbeha County Lake Dam.

When I retired from the Columbus Public School system in 2006, I knew I wanted to keep learning and doing.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — It could potentially cost more than $15 million to make repairs to a dam in northeast Mississippi, a preliminary report shows.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - It could potentially cost more than $15 million to make repairs to a dam in northeast...