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In the city of Starkville, Joseph Goddard is a mosquito's worst enemy. The 22-year-old Mississippi State graduate has been on a mission to control the city's mosquito population for each of the past three summers.

A new Lynn Lane recreation path is in the works. The Starkville Board of Aldermen Tuesday voted 4-3 for engineering firm Neel-Schaffer to move forward with a revised plan that would connect Sycamore Street to McKee Park and the city's Sportsplex.

By KELLY DANIELS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Starkville's once autonomous Parks and Recreation Commission is now an advisory board following a split vote by the Board of Aldermen Tuesday night.. In the face of a large crowd outspoken in its opposition to the proposed change, the ...

The city of Starkville will swear in its new mayor and Board of Aldermen Thursday morning in front of City Hall.

A Starkville restaurant will attempt to set a Guinness World Record next weekend for the largest barbecue sandwich in history.

Submitted photo/SDN Left, this dog was one of nine pit bull terriers found by Starkville animal control officers Rich McKee and Sarah Hankins at an unspecified home in the area when they responded to a call from a concerned citizen a week ago today.

The Lynn Lane bike path project is dead. Kevin Stafford, of engineering firm Neel-Schaffer, told the Starkville Board of Aldermen Tuesday the whole scope of the Lynn Lane project needs to be changed.

After more than five years, a Clay County murder once thought to be a cold case may have been solved.

Greg Sharp woke up in his house here at 4 a.m. on Saturday. He drove to his farm in Bradley and washed the fruits and vegetables he had set aside to sell at the Starkville Community Market.

Three local men are in jail today after they were arrested this week on weapons theft charges by the Columbus Police Department.

Submitted photo/SDN Above, local board members and staff with the Oktibbeha County chapter of the American Red Cross met briefly with the command staff of the Mississippi National Guarda s 2nd-114th Strike Battalion following a farewell ceremony at Camp Shelby for the 2nd-114th and the other units within the 155th Brigade Combat Team deploying to ...

On stage, Krista Vowel is a complicated character. Her name is Betty and she's caught up in the middle of a tense love triangle involving her ex-husband and one of his childhood friends.

Gregg Lewis might not look or sound like an artist, but for years he's been creative.

Kelly Daniels/SDN Starkville police officer Aisha El-Amin, the first female platoon leader in the history of the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy, investigates a car robbery at Armstrong Middle School.

In 1954, Lewis Roberson moved here to work as a janitor at Mississippi State University.

STARKVILLE, Miss. - The train cars line the tracks outside of Starkville for miles on each side.

The Starkville Dispatch begins publication today, offering a free news source to readers in Bulldog Country.

Nathan Smith loves to play fantasy video games and chase his chickens, but he wants to be a microbiologist, like his mom.

Kelly Daniels/SDN Ryan Gray presents a plan for a new sewer district in eastern Oktibbeha County to the Board of Supervisors.

Election officials in Starkville Thursday held a recount of the general election results from Ward 2, but when all was said and done, the vote totals remained the same.