Star News

Mississippi schools got their grades Monday and many found the grading scale just got a lot tougher.

WLBT and Baptist Cancer Services joined forces for the Power of Pink campaign, an effort to raise awareness of breast health.

A Mississippi man is getting a miracle house. Richard Heuer, a resident of Star, was severely injured in August when a deer ran into him while he was riding his motorcycle to work.

A Rankin County family is homeless after a fire left their home in ruins Tuesday afternoon.

Members of the south Rankin County community are meeting tonight to discuss findings of a feasibility study that looked at Star's prospect of becoming a town.

Members of the south Rankin County community are meeting tonight to discuss findings of a feasibility study that looked at Star's prospect of becoming a town.

Star could soon become Rankin County's eighth municipality. Members of the south Rankin County community are meeting Thursday to discuss findings of a feasibility study that looked at Star's prospects for becoming a town.

Armed with the results of a feasibility study, leaders of this Rankin County community are ready to see it become a municipality.

Members of the south Rankin County community are meeting tonight to discuss findings of a feasibility study that looked at Star's prospect of becoming a town.

Temp: 88.0 F Heat Index: 96 F Meridian, Key Field, MS The tanker driver whose truck was struck by a train Sunday in Rankin County has died.

By Samra Ward The Meridian Star After three nights of intense competition, Katherine Thurber of West Jackson County was named Mississippi's Junior Miss 2010.

The driver of an 18-wheeler that crashed into a train in Rankin County on Sunday was still in critical condition as of this morning, emergency officials said.

An explosion in Rankin County injures three people, one critically, when an 18 wheeler collides with a train.

Three people were injured this morning when a Canadian National Railway locomotive struck a tanker truck in Rankin County.

By Alex Riess The Meridian Star "One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go cat go!" chanted Jerry Winstead, shuttle bus driver from the Pearl River Resort casinos to the fairground and back.

Space and time will collide again in Pearl today when Jackson Comic-Con brings together Mandalorian bounty hunters, Medieval craftsmen, Star Fleet captains and masked superheros.

Every now and then a Mississippi recording artist comes along and hits the big time.

Gotta have Faith? Coty Inc. hopes consumers will head to mass market beauty counters this October: That's when Faith Hill, the multiplatinum country and pop star, is entering new territory with her eponymous first fragrance.

Today MDOT was back out working on a huge sinkhole that appeared on highway 49 between Star and Piney Woods in Rankin County yesterday.

U.S. 49's southbound lanes should be reopened today after a section of collapsed road is repaired.