COLUMBUS — Ferlonzo Ferrikes Coats, 50, died April 10, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at New Zion U.M. Church, with the Rev. Dwayne ...

WEST POINT — Cornell Westbrook, 69, died April 5, 2026, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Strong Hill M.B. Church, with Willie Edwards ...

KENNEDY, Ala. — Margaret “Maggie” Hodges, 80, died April 13, 2026. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Dowdle Funeral Home, with Jeff Long officiating. Graveside services and burial will ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Oklahoma City guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander doesn’t sound all that excited about the idea of becoming a back-to-back NBA champion. That might seem strange. It’s not. It’s just who the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The most popular last names in the U.S might be unchanged from the previous decade, but Asian surnames were the fastest-growing at the start of this decade, the U.S. Census Bureau said ...

The Dispatch’s Best of the Triangle readers’ choice contest is the area’s longest-running recognition of the most popular businesses and professionals in the Golden Triangle. Businesses who want to ...

COLUMBUS — Willie Mae Bush, 55, died April 22, 2026, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of ...

COLUMBUS — Eric L. Pruitt, 50, died April 20, 2026, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus.

STARKVILLE — Lubertha “Lulu” CArr,61, died April 15, 2026, in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Austin C.O.C.H. U.S.A. Burial will follow at Sessums Community Cemetery.

MCDONOUGH, Ga. — Dr. Tywanda Faye Stewart Smart, 64, died April 11, 2026, in Fayetteville, Georgia. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Oak Grove M.B. Church, with Therman Cunningham ...

WEST POINT — Trina Danette Cannon, 48, died April 15, 2026, at Diversicare of Meridian. Funeral services will be at noon Sunday, at Mt. Pisgah M.B. Church in Tibbee, with Donald Wesley officiating.