Starkville sets sales tax record in April
April was an unprecedented month for Starkville’s restaurants and bars as a perfect storm of events helped the city reach a record amount of food and beverage tax receipts.
Photo: World Record
Siblings Nolen and Carley Hood, along with thousands of other Mississippi State University fans, make some noise Thursday night at Davis Wade Stadium in an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark for most cowbells rung at one time during the Cowbell Yell pep rally.
MSU to attempt cowbell ringing world record
Mississippi State University may be about to host the event that sets the Guinness World Record for most people ringing cowbells simultaneously at a single venue.
Nativity scene breaks Guinness record
More than 1,000 people dressed as angels, wise men and religious royalty gathered at a park in Provo, Utah, and set a new Guinness record for the largest live nativity scene.
Illinois pet dubbed world’s tallest cow
A 6-foot-4-inch cow owned by an Illinois woman was recently dubbed the world’s tallest.
Plumpest pumpkin: 2,058-pound gourd sets record
A gourd weighing 2,058 pounds took first prize and set a new tournament record Monday at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California.
NOAA: 2013 was fourth hottest on record
The sweltering year of 1988 first put global warming in the headlines and ended up as the hottest year on record. But on Tuesday, it was pushed out of the top 20 warmest by 2013.
Last year tied for the fourth hottest and 1988 fell to 21st.
TVA says peak power was second highest for winter
Tennessee Valley Authority preliminary figures show demand for power at 7 a.m. CST on Tuesday reached the second highest winter peak in TVA history.
10,607 video games secure Guinness title
Maybe it was getting his first video game, Cosmic Avenger, for Christmas at age 12, and then having to wait an entire year for the hard-to-land Colecovision console to play it on that made Michael Thomasson so determined to get his hands on every video game and system he could find.
852 Thai children set human Christmas tree record
Christmas is not a holiday in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, and its palm trees outnumber pines, but the country still set a world record with its holiday spirit.
Poverty stuck at 15 percent — record 46.5M
Mississippi had the highest share of its residents in poverty: 22 percent
MSU sets record for freshman enrollment
A record number of first-time freshmen are enrolled at Mississippi State University for the fall 2013 semester.
Largest Ferris wheel nears completion
LAS VEGAS — The madcap carnival on the Las Vegas Strip is getting another over-the-top addition: the world’s largest Ferris wheel. The outer wheel of
UMass students feast on 15,000-pound fruit salad
AMHERST, Mass. — In what’s become an annual tradition, the University of Massachusetts celebrated the start of the new academic year with a delicious, healthy,
Municipal court handles record number of cases
Starkville’s municipal court handled a record 13,703 cases in 2012, a number which reflects an almost 1,000 case increase from 2011, city documents show.
Deadly Okla. tornado widest on record, rare EF5
The deadly tornado that plowed through an area near Oklahoma City last week was even larger and more powerful than previously estimated — a record 2.6 miles wide with winds that reached nearly 300 mph, just shy of the strongest winds ever measured.
US seared during hottest year on record by far
America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.
A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That’s a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998.
Scientists: After further review, giant sequoia tops neighbor
Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’s No. 2 biggest tree has been supplanted thanks to the most comprehensive measurements taken of the largest living things on Earth.
UMass students nosh on 6,700-pound seafood stew
The University of Massachusetts has again welcomed students back to campus with a world record-breaking culinary treat.
July was hottest ever in history books
This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the Lower 48 states, breaking a record set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.