Steel Dynamics Inc. is building a more than $14 million rail line to deliver scrap metal from the West Bank Port on Old Macon Road to the company’s steel mill west of Columbus. At the Lowndes County ...

CALEDONIA — Billy Welch, 82, died Nov. 6, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Egger Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour ...

Alice Gray O’Neal was born on July 17, 1936, in Savanah Georgia, to Margaret V. Gray and Samuel F. Gray. Alice, age 89, passed away on November 2, 2025 in Columbus Mississippi, where she resided since ...

COLUMBUS — ERica Wicks, 38, died Oct. 23, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Faith United Church Ministries in Crawford, with Tasha ...

There will be no services at this time. Lowndes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Grammar was born May 27, 1977, in Columbus, to Lillian June Miller Grammar and John Wayne ...

COLUMBUS — William Harmon, 69, died Nov. 6, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes Funeral Home of Columbus.

COLUMBUS — Jimmy L. Webber, 92, died Nov. 2, 2025, at Dugan Memorial Home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at New Hope M.B. Church in Artesia with Thomas Rice officiating. Burial will ...

COLUMBUS — Grant “Lil Bruh” Roland, 86, died Oct. 25, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Goldnen Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Canaan M.B. Church with the Rev. Al Lathan ...

Cynthia Bradford Grace Reeves, of Starkville, MS, passed away Saturday, November 1, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS, surrounded by family. Visitation will be Wednesday, ...

Margaret Odessa Sprayberry, 89, of Columbus, MS, passed away November 2, 2025, at her residence surrounded by family. The visitation will Wednesday, November 5, 2025, from 12:00 P.M. until 1:30 P.M.

Sulligent, Ala. — Herman Hayes, 81, died Oct. 23, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Otts Funeral hOme. Burial followed at Sulligent ...

STARKVILLE — Photos of four properties on Ruth Road drew winces and looks of disbelief Tuesday during a board of aldermen meeting at City Hall. Three were abandoned houses in extreme disrepair. The ...