Starkville convenience store robbed for second time in month

The Starkville Police Department is searching for a man who used a metal pipe to rob the Down the Hatch convenience store this weekend on Russell Street.

Book remembers Mississippi football’s ‘backwoods Bear’

Robert “Bull” Sullivan has been called the “toughest coach there ever was.” The former East Mississippi Junior College football coach was known to line his players up on the edge of a snake- and alligator-infested pond for drills, order them to attend 2 a.m. practice sessions and play their way through aches and pains that would sideline many opponents.

Book remembers Mississippi football’s ‘backwoods Bear’

Robert “Bull” Sullivan has been called the “toughest coach there ever was.” The former East Mississippi Junior College football coach was known to line his players up on the edge of a snake- and alligator-infested pond for drills, order them to attend 2 a.m. practice sessions and play their way through aches and pains that would sideline many opponents.

In West Point, beautification under way to lure businesses, visitors

Downtown West Point is only a few blocks from Highway 45 Alternate, but many motorists who pass through the Golden Triangle’s northernmost city don’t pull off the busy thoroughfare to see local attractions.

Disaster aid available for Starkville tornado victims

Victims of the Nov. 29 tornado in Starkville have until Feb. 7 to apply for disaster recovery loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration, but the Administration’s local Disaster Loan Outreach Center only will be open for two more days.

Citizens: Starkville needs municipal building

During two recent tours of City Hall, a total of 21 Starkville residents walked through the 71-year-old structure on Lampkin Street and discovered what city employees have attested for years: Starkville needs a new municipal building.

Starkville planning commission OKs rezoning for new Sonic parking lot

The Starkville planning and zoning commission Tuesday approved a rezoning and conditional use request by Sonic Drive-In to construct a parking lot behind its restaurant at Highway 12 and Vine Street.

Federal spending bill could help Starkville roads

The U.S. Senate’s pending vote on the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2011 will have a direct impact on transportation in the city of Starkville.

West Point contracts to clear limbs near power lines

West Point residents who are fed up with power outages caused by downed tree branches could soon find some relief.

Benefit breakfast raises funds for wounded Starkville veteran

More than 120 people attended a community breakfast last week and raised nearly $2,000 for a local soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan.

Mississippi State student dies after fall at party

A Mississippi State University student who fell down a flight of stairs late last week at a party in the Cotton District died Monday night in Tupelo.

Still no cause in Oktibbeha County fire that killed volunteer

Just off Maben-Sturgis Road in western Oktibbeha County, the charred remains of a mobile home sat at the end of a long, gravel driveway Monday morning, four days after fire tore through the structure and killed 51-year-old Donna Barmore.

Starkville birdwatchers receive top honor

A group of local birdwatchers recently helped bring some acclaim to the state of Mississippi.

Oktibbeha Audubon Society members Terry Schiefer, of Starkville, and Jim and Dianne Patterson, of Columbus, were on a birdwatching team dubbed “The Mississippi Team” this fall in Audubon Alaska’s first-ever Arctic Refuge Fall Migration Birding Challenge.

Oktibbeha fire victim was Red Cross volunteer

Authorities Thursday afternoon released the identity of an Oktibbeha County woman who died in an early-morning fire.

Cadence CEO: No ‘golden parachutes’ in buyout deal

Shareholders of Cadence Financial Corp. Thursday approved the acquisition of the company by Texas-based Community Bancorp, in a deal that Cadence’s CEO said didn’t “provide any payout” to him or other executives.

CottonMill Marketplace project moving forward

Developers of the proposed CottonMill Marketplace project were in Starkville Wednesday and said they expect to complete financing on the $100 million-plus undertaking at the edge of the Mississippi State University campus by the end of the year.

Oktibbeha County woman dies in fire

An Oktibbeha County woman was killed in an early-morning fire today just south of Maben, an emergency official said.

Community cleanup planned in The Pines

A second community cleanup event is planned this weekend in The Pines mobile home park, which was devastated the night of Nov. 29 by an EF-2 tornado.

Starkville pursuing new sidewalk exemptions

The effort to update the city of Starkville’s sidewalk ordinance has lasted several months, resulted in multiple public hearings and left its citizen-led transportation committee scratching their heads as they have tried in vain to compose a variance process suitable to builders, landowners and the Starkville Board of Aldermen.

Fourth New Lite Grocery robbery suspect arrested

Police on Tuesday arrested a fourth man wanted in connection with the robbery of New Lite Grocery Sunday night on Highway 12 West.