Eric Lampkin News Today

College students from Mississippi and Louisiana are in Columbus this week and are getting a jump start on the next school year.

Work continues on repairs to the Riverwalk Pedestrian Bridge in Columbus. Workers from Barnhart Crane and Rigging moved in components to rebuild bridge supports.

A months-long investigation landed a Tupelo man in the Lafayette County Jail. That investigation began on April 15 when Oxford police took a report of a sexual assault.

Mississippi's Back to School Sales Tax Holiday will be earlier and longer this year. With more schools following the modified school calendar, the state legislature moved the Tax-Free Weekend up two weeks.

The weather's not the only thing heating up. Crews from Columbus Fire and Rescue have had their hands full.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to a crash around 8:40 a.m. on Highway 45 Alternate in Noxubee County.

Joint operation by the Clay County Sheriff's Office, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, and the Department of Corrections has landed one man in jail and taken a quantity of meth off the streets.

A representative form of government can't be truly representative if everyone's not represented. That's one of the messages of the NEW Leadership Mississippi program.

After more than two decades in a career she once said she got into almost by accident, Monroe County's Emergency Management Director is retiring.

A new industry in Noxubee County is already proving to be a good corporate neighbor.