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The university receives an annual allocation of $113,000 to cover routine maintenance issues, which often leaves MUW footing the bill for major upgrades and improvements. Gaskin echoed calls for ...

Two men are dead after fatally shooting each other Thursday in the parking lot of the Quality Inn on Highway 12 in Starkville. Veshawn Williams, 25, of Columbus and Robert Mayfield, 27, of ...

Two applicants have emerged for a vacant seat on the board of Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau. Current board member Jay Patel is seeking reappointment and is contested by former ...

Mississippi State was in position to complete a perfect week on the road, leading Florida by nine points midway through the fourth quarter Sunday. Even after turning the ball over 17 times in the ...

Nestled on the Starkville High School campus, the White House Studio where Andrew Lark teaches visual arts feels like it is in a different world. From the rows of paintings alongside the staircase ...

STARKVILLE – Starkville’s fire department is bolstering its ranks by rehiring lapsed personnel as reservists, hoping to improve training and faltering recruitment efforts. The city announced ...

ALICEVILLE, Ala. — DeAnna R. “Dee” Phillips, 51, died Feb. 20, 2025, at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, at Spirit and Truth ...

TERRY — A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed while responding to a call outside the state’s capital city of Jackson, authorities said. Deputy Martin Shields Jr., 37, of the ...

The city is still in the running for a $20 million grant that would build an $8 million multipurpose facility on part of the old Kerr-McGee Superfund site and improve more than 400 homes in the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A U.S. Border Patrol agent whose killing in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border has been tied to a cultlike group was buried with full military honors Saturday ...

Police are searching for a suspect following a Thursday shooting on the 900 Block of Fourth Avenue South. Shots were fired into an apartment building at around 4:44 p.m., Columbus Police ...