COLUMBUS MAN ROBBED, ATTACKED WITH PEPPER SPRAY Inside, See page 3A ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY WEDNESDAY | JANUARY 27, 2016 Magby bridge on Lehmberg closing Courtesy photo/Jeopardy!®Productions Inc. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, left, stands with Michael Sieja, a computer science major at Mississippi State University. Sieja will ap- pear on the popular game show on Feb. 3. MSU student to appear on Jeopardy Huntsville native excited to represent family, MSU on Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff Columbus leaders have announced the Magby Creek bridge on North Lehmberg Road will close for a month Mon- popular game show day. The bridge, which was constructed in 1988, is in need of repair. BY SAM LUVISI Portion of N. Lehmberg
[email protected] Mississippi State University fans of the Road will close for a game show “Jeopardy!” will have one of their own to root for in the show’s upcom- month starting Monday ing 2016 “Jeopardy!” College Championship round of episodes early next month. BY ALEX HOLLOWAY Michael Sieja, a sophomore computer
[email protected] science major from Huntsville, Alabama, Columbus is bracing for a “major won the spot competing among 15 other disruption” to traffic in east Colum- students for a $100,000 prize after a former bus as the city closes a portion of teacher informed him in September that the North Lehmberg Road for emergen- show had an online test and was looking for cy repairs. participants. After successfully completely The road will close at 6 a.m. Mon- a 50-question test (with about “10 seconds” day at the bridge over Magby Creek to answer each one, he said), Sieja said he near Dutch Village.