Maben News

The wife of a hunter found shot to death last week south of Maben was still behind bars this morning on a $125,000 bond.

Paul Sims/SDN The Greater Starkville Development Partnership Board elected new officers Friday.

Supervisor runoff races Tuesday Four candidates for two seats on the Webster County Board of Supervisors will square off in runoff races next Tuesday.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Quick thinking by an Oktibbeha County sheriff's deputy resulted in the quick apprehension of a murder suspect who was on the run after escaping from the Chickasaw County Jail.

Chickasaw County Deputy Sheriff James Myers said a jail escapee wanted for murder in another state was found last night in Oktibbeha County.

The Monroe County grand jury has indicted a Maben man on capital murder charges stemming from a 2002 slaying.

The Oktibbeha County School District is 'well under way' in talks with East Mississippi Community College about opening a college branch at the unused O.L. Wicks school in Maben, the district's superintendent said.

Gwen Sisson/SDN Jessi Flynt performs during a Cowboy Church event at the Lynch Ranch in Maben.

City retail sales fall 6.3 percent Eupora saw sales tax returns collected on actual July sales fall $2,185 or about 6.3 percent when compared to the same month the previous year.

Cause of house fire undetermined The Webster Progress-Times The cause of a fire that severely damaged a house last week in the Dancy community remains undetermined.

Photos by Kelly Daniels and Brian Hawkins/SDN Top, an emotional Maria Ball, center, leaves the courtroom after Judge Jim Kitchens sentenced former Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks officer Ryan Crick to 60 years in prison on multiple aggravated DUI charges and a charge of leaving the scene of the accident in the January 2008 ...

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Former state game warden Ryan Crick will be sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to four felony charges in connection with the January 2008 crash on Oktoc Road that killed two people and seriously injured another.

Cause of house fire undetermined The Webster Progress-Times The cause of a fire that severely damaged a house last week in the Dancy community remains undetermined.

Hundreds of health-conscious residents of the Golden Triangle and beyond Thursday visited 4-County Electric Power Association's Health Fair at East Mississippi Community College's Mayhew campus.

Mathiston mayor, aldermen re-elected Eupora' election finals, Page 8A. Mathiston Mayor Jimmy P. Carden and all aldermen won re-election in the town's June 2 municipal election.

By GWEN SISSON This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it In a very special worship service for Pentecost Sunday, Bishop Hope Morgan Ward of the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church said Pentecost was a great "airing out" moment.