Coronavirus variant from England discovered in Mississippi
A coronavirus variant first identified in England has been discovered for the first time in Mississippi, state health officials said Monday.
CPD pleads with public to wear masks after reported violations of mandate
Columbus Police Department is asking the public to comply with the city’s mask mandate due to recent spikes in COVID-19 cases and a rising number of citizen complaints about violations, Chief Fred Shelton said at a Wednesday press conference at City Hall.
Strict safety measures contain SPD COVID outbreak
Sgt. Kenley Reaves was the first to get sick.
The Starkville police officer started feeling like he might have the flu on Oct. 1. Over the next nine days he experienced a range of symptoms, from chills and a 102-degree fever to dizziness and sore eyes. He was briefly admitted to North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point.
Area hospitals brace for increase in COVID cases
The surge in COVID-19 cases that is sweeping the state may finally be arriving in the Golden Triangle, administrators from hospitals in Columbus, Starkville and West Point acknowledge.
WPCSD sees 42 positive COVID cases, quarantines 115 over the past month
Area school districts have reported a total of at least 187 positive cases of COVID-19 since school began, according to the latest data from Clay and Noxubee county school districts.
A different kind of Halloween: COVID fears likely to mean fewer trick-or-treaters, parties
All dressed up and no place to go.
Welcome to Halloween 2020.
SOCSD leads area school districts in COVID-19 cases
Public school districts in Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties have witnessed a total of 110 cases of COVID-19 since school started, sending hundreds of students into quarantine, according to data from the districts.
Starkville homecoming parade without game highlights district’s attempts to balance safety with normalcy as virus surges
It’s a tradition for Terra Robinson and her family to attend Starkville High School’s homecoming parade every year.
Officials: Spike in Lowndes COVID numbers misleading
Lowndes County saw 180 new confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus last week, a notable spike from 34 new cases the previous week, while surrounding counties and the rest of the state saw small decreases or much smaller increases in the numbers of new cases.
MSU rents rooms at Columbus hotel as third quarantine site
Mississippi State University students in quarantine due to COVID-19 are staying in a third hotel, Fairfield Inn and Suites in Columbus, in addition to the two in Starkville that MSU rented for the entire semester, according to a Tuesday email to faculty from Provost David Shaw.
Labor Day gatherings, travel could bring COVID spike to area
Ned Browning and his wife usually travel from Starkville to Natchez, Birmingham or Nashville, where each of their children live, for Labor Day weekend. But Browning said he realized by June this year that they might have to call off the trip due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Third MSU Greek house sees COVID exposure
Members of a third Greek chapter at Mississippi State University left their chapter house to self-quarantine due to exposure to the COVID-19 coronavirus, MSU Chief Communications Officer Sid Salter has confirmed.
OCH CEO: MSU students not likely to require hospitalization for COVID
Administrators at both OCH Regional Medical Center and Mississippi State University have been in contact as MSU has resumed in-person classes, but OCH CEO Jim Jackson said he does not foresee the hospital having to admit any students who test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
70 MSU students test positive for COVID-19
Only a week into the fall semester, 70 students at Mississippi State University have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to data published Monday on the MSU website.
SOCSD’s first day of ‘new normal’ comes with trials, triumphs
Erin Dawson was nervous. On her first day at the brand new Partnership Middle School, the seventh-grader stalled in the hallway and wondered which classroom she would go to.
Two MSU Greek houses see COVID-19 outbreaks
Two Greek Life houses at Mississippi State University have seen outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and a total of 80 students are evacuating the houses and must quarantine for 14 days, MSU Chief Communications Officer Sid Salter confirmed Friday.
Heritage Academy senior Madison Tipton never expected to get COVID-19. Here’s what she wants you to know about it.
The disease “felt like any other flu,” but it wasn’t easy on Tipton. Neither was missing several weeks of her final high school softball season.
Oktibbeha board considering hazard pay for election workers
Oktibbeha supervisors tabled the suggestion to provide $50 maximum in hazard pay to each poll worker working the upcoming special election on Sept. 22 for two open seats in the state Legislature.
80% of Vermont inmates at Mississippi prison infected
An outbreak of the coronavirus at a private prison in Mississippi has now infected 80% of the Vermont inmates housed there and more test results are pending, the head of the Vermont Corrections Department said Monday.
Petition against in-person classes at MSU gains traction
A petition for Mississippi State University not to hold in-person classes gathered more than 230 signatures by Saturday after concerned faculty started circulating it Wednesday, along with an open letter to administration declaring the current plans to reopen campus insufficient to protect the MSU community from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.