Jessica Lindsey

As cars passed smoothly, their drivers and passengers offered gestures of celebration such as fist pumping and “raising the roof.”

A one-story ranch-style building sits at the end of Eighth Street South shrouded by overgrown trees and foliage, blocked off to trespassers.

Before the brave warriors of the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day 79 years ago Tuesday, naval minesweepers went ahead on the night of June 5, 1944, to clear the English Channel of German mines.

A Columbus High School student climbs into his seat with the view of the Columbus-Lowndes County Airport stretched out in front of him.

Columbus may soon join other Mississippi cities such as Starkville and Oxford in having a leisure and recreation district, known as a “red cup district.”

A special needs diagnosis for a child can make parents feel hopeless, helpless and lost.

When crises happen, the voices most often heard are those of adults. Georgianna McKinny, a rising senior at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, sought to change that by giving a voice to children impacted by the water crisis in Jackson.

Though he has only been at Columbus Air Force Base for nearly a year, Base Commander Col. Justin Grieve said there is no place quite like the Friendly City.

Lowndes County School District has declared a shortfall in local tax revenue for its fiscal year for the third year in a row.

The Columbus Municipal School District board of trustees on Monday voted 3-2 to retain former interim superintendent Dennis Dupree as a consultant at a daily pay rate nearly twice that of the district’s permanent superintendent.