Starkville forming ad-hoc recycling committee

Starkville is putting together an informal recycling committee to review the city’s program and look at possible ways to improve it.

Update: Conspiracy suspect offered $5,000 in West Main Arms murder case

A suspect in Friday’s West Main Arms Apartments homicide case attempted to pay someone to help commit the murder, according to court documents.

Starkville to expand video surveillance

The city of Starkville will soon begin work on the first phase of an upgrade to a system of cameras throughout town.

OSCO arrests three suspects for robbery, assault incidents

Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office has arrested three men authorities were searching for in a pair of unrelated incidents from last week.

SPD investigates Friday night homicide

A Starkville man is dead after being shot near the West Main Arms Apartments near downtown Friday.

OCSO searches for three men, one considered ‘armed and dangerous’

Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office deputies are searching for three suspects in a pair of unrelated incidents.

Up and away: Starkville Academy students learn about, participate in weather balloon launch

Mary Holland Nicholas thought the weather balloon might carry her away.

Nicholas, along with fellow fifth-grader Blake Casano, held a weather balloon against buffeting late-morning winds as their peers — led by Mississippi State University meteorology professor and State Climatologist Mike Brown — loudly counted down from five.

Two sentenced for Camelot Apartments armed robbery

Two Starkville men received 15-year sentences to the Mississippi Department of Corrections after pleading guilty in an armed robbery case in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court.

More challengers enter Oktibbeha supes races

Three new candidates have qualified to run for Oktibbeha County supervisor seats.

Clint McCain, Dennis “Denny” Daniels and Leonardo “Knot Knot” Thompson have entered the supervisor races for districts 1, 3 and 4, respectively.

Dog-riding monkeys specialty act to perform at Starkville Rodeo

They call Tim Lepard the “Wild Thang.”

Lepard, a Pontotoc native, used to be a bullfighter — even winning a bullfighter of the year award three years in a row.

In 1987, Lepard said, a world champion bullfighter gave him some advice to try something new.

Board authorizes drafting annexation ordinance

The city of Starkville will move ahead with drafting an annexation ordinance after aldermen voted to authorize City Attorney Chris Latimer to work with urban planning consultant Mike Slaughter to do so at Tuesday’s meeting.

Starkville increases sanitation rates

Starkville aldermen approved a sanitation pick-up rate increase on Tuesday to fund required work to bring the city’s landfill into compliance with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality regulations.

BGC Golden Triangle seeking grant funding for new clubs

The Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle is pushing along with preliminary steps to seek funding for a new center in Oktibbeha County.

Court filing reveals $500K awarded in Kersh case

An Oktibbeha County Circuit Court filing has shed light on how much each party in a civil case against the Mississippi Department of Public Safety received in court-ordered payments.

Aldermen to decide on annexation Tuesday

On Tuesday, Starkville’s board of aldermen will decide whether to press ahead with drafting an annexation ordinance to add new territory to the city’s east.

State Senate bills seek to allow religious, philosophical exemptions for vaccinating children

Four years ago, Mary Esther Elam’s son, Cole, was battling for his life against cancer.

The disease severely weakened his immune system, and Elam said the family relied on “herd immunity” while he was sick.

MHP trooper indicted for manslaughter

A Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper has been indicted for culpable negligence manslaughter for the fatal 2017 crash that led to the death of Mississippi State University student-athlete Kaelin Kersh.

Former parks employee gets probation for defrauding state

A former Starkville Parks and Recreation Department employee has been sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty in an embezzlement case.

MHP trooper indicted for manslaughter in Kersh case

A Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper has been indicted for culpable negligence manslaughter for the fatal 2017 crash that led to the death of Mississippi State University student-athlete Kaelin Kersh.

Devaughn pleads not guilty to Labor Day murder charges

Michael Wayne Devaughn, a suspect indicted earlier this week in Starkville’s infamous 1990 Labor Day murders, pleaded not guilty to his charges during a Wednesday afternoon arraignment in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court.