Stories from Wednesday, November 4, 2020

The Cottey College basketball program will not play games during the 2020-2021 season. The College’s decision is due to low participation numbers for the roster. While COVID-19 has affected many aspects of campus, the timing of the pandemic hit during a crucial recruiting time for the basketball program, which made it difficult to adequately recruit student athletes and field a competitive roster...

COLUMBIA – Jennifer Mosbrucker, a graduate of Nevada High School, earned two Awards of Excellence in the College Photographer of the Year international competition. One of her winning photographs placed in the General News category and was of a princess and prince waiting for the homecoming parade to start in Columbus, Mississippi. The other won in the Portrait category and pictured Kim Carroll and the grandson she is raising...

A total of 13,166, or 70 percent of Vernon County’s voters Tuesday to cast their ballots in the general election. Locally, the incumbent candidates for county commission seats were reelected, as well as the sheriff, who ran unopposed. Vernon County voters also said yes to two state amendments on the ballot:...