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A graveside service for Charles Anderson Holt Sr. of Coila will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Coila Cemetery in Coila.  Mr. Holt, 92, died Sunday, March 8, 2026, in Coila. He was a retired logger and truck ...

Services for Margaret Ingram Patten of Vicksburg will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Scotland Baptist Church in Winona. Mrs. Patten, 79, died Saturday, March 7, 2026, at University of Mississippi Medical ...

Republicans and Democrats head to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s nominee ahead of the November General Election.

Robert St. John says hospitality is hospitality, whether the table is set in Hattiesburg or on a fjord in northern Norway.

The Amanda Elzy girls fast-pitch softball team scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to slip past Ruleville 14-13 Thursday. Elzy tacked on six runs in the first, four in the second and two ...

The Pillow Academy and Carroll Academy baseball teams will be on the road this week competing in the Battle at the Beach ...

The Mississippi Valley State University baseball team dropped the first three games in a four-game series at Tennessee-Martin ...

The Mississippi Valley State men’s and women’s basketball teams will be in action Monday at the Southwestern Athletic ...

Greenwood Leflore Hospital welcomed doctors from Guatemala last week to provide education and training that will help save ...

Greenwood Leflore Hospital signed a letter of intent to discuss the possibility of the University of Mississippi Medical Center taking over its services, according to state and local officials and an ...

Ask anyone who sells bedding plants to name flowers that are preferred by hummingbirds, and lantanas are likely to make the ...