Oktibbeha County News

It's always nice to have a little extra money in the coffers, and city school leaders are hoping they may have hit upon a partial solution to a longtime budget crisis.

Oktibbeha County Coroner Michael Hunt expects to have autopsy results for Mississippi State University student Teresa Ann Veal by Wednesday afternoon.

The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors voted Monday against a measure that would have gauged public interest in a bond package to repair county roads.

On May 18, 1923, the people in the small town of Maben, Mississippi, in Oktibbeha County, 18 miles west of Starkville, and Mississippi State University, were paid a surprise visit by a yet unknown young man, who would soon become known just about all over the world.

The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors will have further discussion on funding mechanisms for infrastructure projects at its Monday meeting.

The Oktibbeha County School District board of trustees will receive an update in student achievement goals at their meeting Monday.

A 20-year-old college student was found dead in her apartment Friday night, but so far there are few clues as to what caused her death.

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- A Jackson television station reports that a Mississippi State University student has been found dead at an off-campus apartment.

On March 19, the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office and Board of Supervisors will host a neighborhood-watch meeting in the courtroom of the county courthouse.

The Oktibbeha County Humane Society, in Starkville, Mississippi, has regular meetings, and have a really good and up to date shelter, and does wonderful work in helping get homes for homeless pets.

Summer Chase apartment complex in Starkville was destroyed by an afternoon fire, WCBI reports.

Five cases involving cocaine or methamphetamine yielded guilty pleas and lengthy prison sentences during the January term of Clay County Circuit Court, which concluded Jan.

The Mississippi Department of Employment Security's unemployment rates for December reveal that Clay County remains at the top of the county unemployment list but maybe not for long, according to the West Point/Clay County Growth Alliance and the Columbus LINK.

The 72-foot bridge on Harris Road is closed due to emergency repairs to the bridge's support beams.

Oktibbeha County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man in connection with the assault and robbery of a woman at a restaurant Thursday.

The following people were arrested on felony charges from Jan. 2 to Jan. 15, according to the Oktibbeha County jail.

The vice president of the Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors said residents will support tax increases for public projects they can have input on.

Starkville native Paul S. Zimmerman is a new fundraiser for Mississippi State University's James Worth Bagley College of Engineering.

Bryant told The Clarion-Ledger that Thursday was the last day for trusties assigned to the mansion.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he won't challenge the pardons of 13 people who met a state constitutional requirement to publish a notice that they were seeking a pardon.