The Messenger’s 2026 Reader’s Choice award winners are featured in a special section in this week’s paper on newsstands and online today. Winners were chosen by Messenger readers. FUNERALS — No ...

CAT DEALER TO EXPAND TO DECATUR INDUSTRIAL PARK — San Diego-based CAT dealer Hawthorne Machinery Co. is expanding its operations into Decatur’s industrial park.

Forgiveness Sunday, occurring just before Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church, emphasizes themes of repentance and ...

Four members of the church were killed in 1884 when around a dozen masked men confronted Latter-day Saints during a Sunday worship service.

I’m not a Luddite. I recognize the benefits of AI, and I understand the advantages implicit in its broader implementation.

Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Pickens serves as your launching pad to Table Rock State Park, one of South Carolina’s crown jewels that somehow manages to fly under the radar ...

Located in the southwestern corner of Georgia where the state meets Florida, Thomasville has been quietly being gorgeous ...

Along with ritual immersion, John the Baptist called people to moral reform. His essential message, like the prophets of Israel before him, was one of repentance from sin in anticipation of God’s ...

On the Friday before Valentine’s Day, Agape Baptist Church has a red carpet out in front of their doors. As the limos arrive, ...

Hundreds of people gathered in Port Arthur to remember civil rights icon Hargie Savoy, days after she died peacefully at home surrounded by her familyA service ...