Columbus native Chuck Younger has been named the chair of the state Senate’s Highways and Transportation Committee. Younger, the senator for District 17 since 2014, was appointed to lead the ...

COLUMBUS — Sam P. Simon, 89, died Jan. 16, 2025. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.

WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday painted a dark vision of the consequences of America’s “unbalanced relationship” with China, echoing President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

A car caught fire a little after noon Wednesday in the Columbus Place parking lot. When Columbus Fire and Rescue arrived on the scene, firefighters found the vehicle already fully engulfed, with ...

WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth faced an important test in his fiery confirmation hearing on Tuesday — but he didn’t just have to prove himself to the senators who immediately began sparring over ...

SHUQUALAK — Barbara Ann Hill, 61, died Jan. 5, 2025, at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon. A Celebration on Life service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Harrison Grove M.B. Church. Burial will ...

MILLPORT, Ala. — Jackie Jermaine “Jack Will” Willis, 41, died Jan. 2, 2025, in Reform, Alabama. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at New Grove Baptist Church in Kennedy, Alabama ...

WEST POINT — Richard Thomas Pernell Sr., 65, died Jan. 10, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Strong Hill M.B. Church, with ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued billionaire Elon Musk, saying he failed to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock in a timely manner in early 2022, before buying the social ...

WASHINGTON — Federal officials on Wednesday released a far-reaching proposal to make cigarettes far less addictive by capping their nicotine content, a goal long sought by antismoking advocates ...

Shirley Jeanette Knight Yerby, age 80, went to see her Lord and Savior Tuesday, January 14, 2025, in Columbus, Mississippi. She was a retired cosmetologist servicing Caledonia and the surrounding ...