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Forever a Mississippi man: Aberdeen native, former MSU assistant leads Auburn against his former team in Omaha

Butch Thompson had made up his mind. After spending four years as an assistant baseball coach at Georgia and another three at Auburn, Thompson, an Aberdeen native, had decided to join the Division I head coaching ranks at High Point University in North Carolina ahead of the 2009 season.

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Idea Shop hosts gift-making workshops for Father's Day

Posted 6/15/2019 in Starkville & Oktibbeha County

Anna Richey and her younger brother, A.J., didn't have much experience with woodworking before Friday afternoon. That didn't keep the two from joining a six-person group in the Idea Shop downtown to handcraft a Father's Day gift for their father, Mike.

Ask Rufus: The Beginning of a Town, June 1819

Posted 6/15/2019 in Local Columns

The founding of Columbus involved a series of settlements and events stretching from 1810 to 1819.

All in the family: Father's Day gives pediatric dentists extra reason to smile

Posted 6/15/2019 in Community

When a child grows up to follow in dad's footsteps, most fathers will admit to a bit of pride. But when pediatric dentist Dr. David K. Curtis really thinks about the fact that not one, but both of his children, became pediatric dentists themselves, it can sometimes, he admitted, seem almost surreal.

Photos: Bo on the go: A day at Camp Rising Sun

Posted 6/15/2019 in Columbus & Lowndes County

Laughs and hollers echoed through Camp Rising Sun on Thursday as campers played in the river, made arts and crafts and danced the night away.

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SPORTS

Mississippi State’s baseball team will play its first game of the 2019 College World Series tonight at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Defense will be key to victories in the tricky dimensions and conditions of the park, where the Bulldogs are playing for the second-straight year.