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Connie Locke Posted: July 8, 2025 MURRAY, Ky. — Connie Locke, 83, died July 2, 2025, in Murray. Funeral services will be at noon Thursday, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home, with the Rev. Klaus R. Tate ...

Jimmy Craddieth Posted: July 8, 2025 COLUMBUS — Jimmy Craddieth, 85, died July 6, 2025, at Windsor Place. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Columbus.

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Cynthia “Cindy” Diane Jaynes Wingo, 65, died at her residence in New Hope, MS. A Celebration of Life service will be held at a later ...

William Cunningham Posted: July 2, 2025 ALICEVILLE, Ala. — William C. “W.C.” Cunningham, 75, died June 27, 2025, at Aliceville Manor Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday ...

On paper, AJ Storr’s journey to Ole Miss looks like a wild one. But Rebels head coach Chris Beard knows there is more than meets the eye when it comes to the guard’s circuitous path. Storr ...

Changes are coming to Oktibbeha County voting precincts, District 3 Election Commissioner Dennis Daniels told The Dispatch.

Tens of millions of people across the Midwest and East endured dangerously hot temperatures again on Sunday as a sprawling June heat wave that gripped much of the U.S. was expected to last well ...

When Zoe Ishee first started out as a Mississippi State University student in 2021, she didn’t know much about neuroscience, but she knew she wanted to learn more about how the brain functions.

Development projects in Oktibbeha ‘on the line’ without dirt borrow pit Aldermen deny request for special exception, after neighbor raises dust, noise issues ...

MSU forwards Adia Symmonds, right, and Zoe Main, left, at the USWNT College Talent ID Camp in Atlanta this week. Main and her new freshman teammate are competing along with 40 other college ...