STARKVILLE – Cobwebs, fake blood and skeletons will decorate the theater at Mississippi State University’s McComas Hall for a haunted house from Thursday to Saturday. This will be the second year ...

Patrice Butts keeps a photo of her mother and sister on her desk at Safe Haven, where she works as a case manager for victims of domestic violence. Both women were killed in 2016 in an act of domestic ...

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY – Supervisors on Monday approved a $55 million purchase agreement to sell OCH Regional Medical Center to Baptist Memorial Health Care, putting the deal on track to close this fall.

STARKVILLE — Starkville Academy announced the return of Mark Alexander to the athletic department this week. Alexander will resume the role of head coach for the Vols boys’ basketball team that he ...

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Spotlight Barbershop owner Arthur Brewer doesn’t condone violence of any sort, but especially not gun violence, which is why he has a “no guns” sign posted in his shop window. The signage didn’t seem ...

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle welcomes new rheumatologist, Dr. Ocheowelle Okeke, MS, MD, to its medical staff. She is in practice at BMG Golden Triangle Rheumatology, 255 Baptist Blvd., ...

Starkville – Mississippi State University is debuting a number of new features to Davis Wade Stadium this season, beginning with a night game against Arizona State on Sept. 6. Local media were given a ...

STARKVILLE — When Anna Pugh arrived in Starkville as an undergraduate anthropology student in 2023, she didn’t know much about Brush Arbor cemetery. To her surprise, the people she met who had lived ...

Residents of the Downtown Historic District began receiving letters recently from the city’s building department reminding them of what changes to their property require prior approval. For most, the ...

In 2024, Mississippi’s infant mortality rate was recorded at a rate of 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births within their first year of life, or roughly one death out of every 100 babies born. That puts the ...

She used to be a “five, five and five girl” — five minutes each of prayer, worship and reading her Bible every morning. Now she says she can’t look at her Bible without crying. “If I start to pray, ...