Aldermen expected to decide officer’s fate
The Starkville Board of Aldermen will hold closed-door discussions today on a police officer’s employment status 5:30 p.m. today at City Hall.
Man homesick for prison gets 3½ year sentence
An ex-con who spent most of his adult life behind bars on Thursday got what he said he wanted for robbing a suburban Chicago bank. The 74-year-old gets to go back to the place he called home — prison.
Man who was homesick for prison to be sentenced
Walter Unbehaun has spent nearly all of his adult life behind bars, so it’s not surprising that he faces sentencing Thursday for yet another crime, a bank robbery last year. His reason for robbing the bank is surprising, though: He was homesick for prison.
Family: Make Iran talks hinge on Levinson aid
The Obama administration should make any diplomatic agreement with Iran contingent on Tehran’s help finding missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson, a lawyer for his family said Monday.
“He’s your guy and you put him there,” attorney David McGee said. “Raise the ante.”
Kansas man hit by train, gets up and walks away
TOPEKA, Kan. — Authorities say a Kansas man who was walking along railroad tracks wearing headphones was hit by a train that he didn’t hear
Police: Man who set himself ablaze on Mall dies
WASHINGTON — A man who set himself on fire on the National Mall in the U.S. capital has died of his injuries, which were so
What really happened to Jimmie Lee Griffith: 48 years later, Sturgis man’s death remains shrouded in mystery
Something felt wrong.
A nagging unrest. A shadow lurking in her mind. She couldn’t figure out what it was. It made her worry, though, and stayed all day long.
This was a Friday nearly a half-century ago. It was almost fall, before the leaves turn, and she remembers her son had a high school football game that night. She didn’t want to go. Whatever unseen ghost was bothering her had not gone away. But she gave in and off they went, a carload of family and friends heading south through Winston County to watch a game.
Turkey Talk Line to have first male spokesman
NEW YORK — This year if you call Butterball’s Turkey Talk Line for some cooking advice, you might get a male voice on the line.
Questions persist about SWAT standoff death of man, 107
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — When the time came to move 107-year-old Monroe Isadore to a new home, police say he resisted and barricaded himself inside.
Two schools locked down after man enters Heritage
Two neighboring Columbus schools were on lockdown Monday morning after they reported a suspicious person in the area.