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  • 2 weeks ago | cdispatch.com | Emma Mcrae

    Driving through the backroads of Lowndes County, you’re likely to see fields of grass, an occasional cow pasture and people enjoying their front porches. You might also see tires, maybe even hundreds of them at a time. For the last two months, supervisors have been trying to nail down a solution to the county’s problem with illegal tire dumping. Several dump sites have popped up on private properties throughout the county, including off Nobel Lane, Golding Road and Harrison Road.

  • 2 weeks ago | cdispatch.com | Emma Mcrae

    The three remaining suspects in a Lowndes County assault and robbery are now in custody. Diquavious Gray, 19, of Starkville, Zykeriya Wilbon, 19, of Artesia, and Dekhia Wood, 20, of Columbus, turned themselves in to the sheriff’s office Thursday at the same time, Sheriff Eddie Hawkins told The Dispatch. Hawkins said each will be charged with one count of robbery, but more charges may be added as the investigation continues.

  • 2 weeks ago | cdispatch.com | Emma Mcrae

    The second of two cousins involved in a three-car collision that left a man dead in 2020 has been sentenced. Dustin Wayne Gwathney, 25, of Columbus, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Lowndes County Circuit Court. Judge Lee “Jay” Howard handed down a sentence of 17 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Five of those years will be suspended, leaving Gwathney to serve 12, Assistant District Attorney Marc Amos told The Dispatch.

  • 2 weeks ago | cdispatch.com | Emma Mcrae

    The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision to deny providing discovery records to a man convicted in 2001 of cutting a woman with a knife. Appellant Tommy Lee Page was indicted for aggravated assault in early 2001 by an Oktibbeha County grand jury for cutting Karen Hendrix with a knife. He was found guilty at trial of aggravated assault and sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment, according to an appeals court opinion.

  • 2 weeks ago | cdispatch.com | Emma Mcrae

    With the end of the school year just around the corner, area school districts are preparing to keep cafeteria doors open next month with the goal of ensuring students stay fed through the summer holiday. For many students, free summer meal programs may be the difference between eating a hot meal for lunch and going hungry for the day.

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