Starkville News

An approaching line of intense thunderstorms with a history of producing widespread wind damage has prompted the Storm Prediction Center to issue a severe thunderstorm watch for much of central Mississippi .

A judge has denied Willie Jerome Manning's request for a new trial in the 1993 slayings of a 90-year-old woman and her 60-year-old daughter in Starkville.

STARKVILLE - A Tennessee company has offered to lease OCH Regional Medical Center.

In a recent Tuesday the streets of many of our municipalities were lined with fellow citizens and supporters of mayoral, aldermanic and council candidates waving signs and banners in behalf of their favorites.

Willie Jerome Manning, who won a stay of execution in one capital case, is waiting to hear whether an Oktibbeha County judge agrees with his claim that he was denied a fair trial in 1996 when he was sentenced to death for the slayings of 2 elderly women.

All American Check Cashing announced today the completion of the acquisition of 10 payday loan retail stores today throughout Mississippi.

Senior Khanh Nguyen of Gautier, a computer engineering major and the daughter of Ken Ly and Janet Nguyen, is one of 22 Mississippi State students who have joined the university Alumni Association's student liaison group.

Northeast to hold commencement exercises BOONEVILLE - Northeast Mississippi Community College will recognize 481 graduates in two ceremonies this week.

In fact, there's a one-in-three chance that Liddell wasn't even in town. So far during the 2012-13 school year Liddell has taken 21 trips that kept her out of the district for at least 60 of the 180 school days this year.

An internationally known architect of baseball stadiums, Janet Marie Smith, told graduates of Mississippi State University that hard work, passionate conviction and unwavering courage are skills that will help them succeed.

The GumTree Festival has seen the guys in Paper Blues go from boys to men. Mitch Presley, Justin Hughes and Ryan Culp started playing music together in the Tupelo High School band Structure, which performed at the GumTree Festival on the youth stage in years past.

STARKVILLE - Oktibbeha County supervisors have passed a resolution to let the public know it will borrow $5 million when needed to support an economic development opportunity.

Mississippi's Supreme Court postponed Tuesday's scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning, days after federal authorities acknowledged errors in FBI forensic testimony at his 1994 trial and just five hours before he was to die by lethal injection.

ICC schedules May 11 commencement FULTON - More than 500 students will receive associate degrees or certificates during commencement ceremonies at Itawamba Community College on Saturday at the Davis Event Center at the Fulton campus.

STARKVILLE - Extra motivation wasn't needed from the Oxford Chargers heading into Game 2 of their MHSAA Class 5A series with the Starkville Yellowjackets at Carlisle Field Thursday night.

STARKVILLE - Mississippi State University architecture students designed a sustainable home that can provide its own electricity, water supply and food for a family of four.

Just 15 months after they affiliated with his highly successful development team, Joe Max Higgins landed major Japanese tire manufacturer, Yokohama, and hundreds of high paying jobs for unemployment-ravaged West Point and Clay County.

Game 1: Vanderbilt 3, MSU 1 - Luis Pollorena gave an excellent performance, arguably his best of the year going 7.1 inning allowing three runs but it wasn't enough as he was saddled with his second loss of the year .

MSU's Matthew Berk named Goldwater Scholar STARKVILLE - Mississippi State University junior Matthew S. Berk is among this year's selections for a 2013 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award for students in the science, mathematics and engineering fields.

The state will borrow $70 million for land, infrastructure and workforce training.