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 ...

When a person is sent to prison, one of the first lessons to be learned is that the prison has its own society, with rules established not just by prison authorities but by the prisoners themselves.

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State women’s basketball picked up its second win of the season against Alcorn State on Sunday. JerKaila Jordan scored 20 points to help lead the Bulldogs to a 73-45 ...

Mississippi State (2-7, 0-5 Southeastern Conference) hits the road to Neyland Stadium in Knoxville for a matchup with No. 7 Tennessee (7-1, 4-1) at 6 p.m. Central Time (7 p.m. local) on ESPN.

Sarah Randolph woke up early on Thursday morning, too anxious to go back to sleep. Despite her nerves, she spent the day doing many of the normal things in her routine: going to classes, taking a ...

Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting, has died. He was 74. He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter Heather ...

WASHINGTON — Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans in one of seven victories for abortion rights advocates, while Florida, Nebraska and ...

STARKVILLE – A Mississippi State University research team is looking to improve high school students’ competency in artificial intelligence through a project funded by a $1.2 million grant ...

With daylight hours growing shorter and the big waters beginning to cool, schooling shad are drawing frenzied bass and opportunities for fast action to the surface. Finding the bass, in particular ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the defacto manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff, the first woman to hold the influential role.

Republican President-elect Donald Trump appears to have carried the two largest counties in the four-county region in Tuesday’s general election, as well as the state of Mississippi. Trump ...

A United States flag, once rumored to have draped Ulysses S. Grant’s coffin, is now the subject of research in the U.S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University.