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To anyone in Columbus for the last 49 years, the giant building at 1404 Old Aberdeen Road has always been Leigh Mall. But the Hull Property Group, which bought the mall in 2019 with the goal of ...

HEBRON, Ky. — President Donald Trump toured an Ohio pharmaceutical company on Wednesday and campaigned in the nearby Kentucky district of a Republican in Congress he’d like to see defeated — ...

She had a name straight out of the Old South, with a grand antebellum home and a genteel nature to match. For more than 50 years, she was known as a preservationist and visionary, a volunteer and a ...

Last year, Mississippi was at risk of being the first state ever to not send a student representative to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Columbus “saved the bee” by rallying together to fund and ...

STARKVILLE — Every time Pastor and Judge Larnzy Carpenter Jr. is about to take the bench, he has a few things he likes to do. First, Carpenter always prays through a special prayer before entering the ...

NEW YORK — New York Liberty owner Clara Wu Tsai has a vested interest in getting the most out of female athletes. What she found when she took over the team in 2019 was a major gap in data and ...

The man who is reportedly the richest oligarch in Russia — and the target of numerous international sanctions because of his country’s recent invasion of Ukraine — played an important role in one of ...

SDI representatives, CEO Mark Millett and Gov. Tate Reeves dig up dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for Aluminum Dynamics Tuesday afternoon off Charleigh D. Ford Jr. Drive. Millett expects to begin ...

STARKVILLE — William Thomas “Tommy” Chisholm will spend the rest of his life in prison after an Oktibbeha County Circuit Court jury found him guilty Friday of capital murder. Chisholm, 44, of ...

Mariah Beckom had never ridden in a rodeo pageant before August. The longtime Columbus resident didn’t even own a horse until about four years ago. But when Beckom saw that Black Rodeo USA was holding ...

STARKVILLE — Starkville Academy announced the return of Mark Alexander to the athletic department this week. Alexander will resume the role of head coach for the Vols boys’ basketball team that he ...