AKA to help community be ‘Healthy, Wealthy and Wise’
By: MARY RUMOREStaff WriterThursday, May 31, 2018STARKVILLE, MSThe Upsilon Pi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. will host its Healthy, Wealthy and Wise Health Fair Saturday from 10 a.m....
View ArticleCounty's decision on waste services potentially tabled for fall
By: LOGAN KIRKLAND Staff Writernews@starkvilledailynews.comThursday, May 31, 2018STARKVILLE, MSThe Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors made a more concrete step to finalizing its decision on waste...
View ArticleEMCC, Baptist announce surgical technology program
By: CHARLIE BENTON Staff Writereduc@starkvilledailynews.comThursday, May 31, 2018STARKVILLE, MSEast Mississippi Community College and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden triangle have come together to...
View ArticleRCU nets $35k Google grant for CS4MS training
By: SDN Staff Staff WriterThursday, May 31, 2018STARKVILLE, MSMississippi State University’s Research and Curriculum Unit (RCU) was recently on the receiving end of a $35,000 grant from Google, which...
View ArticleSOCSD begins library improvements
By: CHARLIE BENTON Staff Writereduc@starkvilledailynews.comThursday, May 31, 2018STARKVILLE, MSStudents across the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District will soon see improvements across...
View ArticleStarkville man sentenced after pleading guilty to statutory rape
By: Ryan PhillipsSDN EDITOR editor@starkvilledailynews.comFriday, June 1, 2018STARKVILLE, MSA Starkville man pleaded guilty to a statutory rape charge in May after being accused of having sex with a...
View ArticleMental evaluation requested for sexual battery suspect
By: Ryan PhillipsSDN EDITOR editor@starkvilledailynews.comFriday, June 1, 2018STARKVILLE, MSThe public defender for a Starkville man facing sexual battery and weapons charges has requested a mental...
View ArticleTrial date moved for Westside Market stabbing suspect
By: Ryan PhillipsStaff Writereditor@starkvilledailynews.comFriday, June 1, 2018STARKVILLE, MSThe trial date has been moved for a Starkville man accused of stabbing another man with a knife at a...
View ArticleCity looks to make concrete plan for infrastructure needs
By: LOGAN KIRKLAND Staff Writernews@starkvilledailynews.comFriday, June 1, 2018STARKVILLE, MSAs infrastructure emergencies such as broken water pipes more frequently become a topic of discussion, the...
View ArticleTrial date set for woman accused of cutting coworker
By: RYAN PHILLIPSSDN EDITOR editor@starkvilledailynews.comSaturday, June 2, 2018STARKVILLE, MSThe trial date has been set for a Starkville woman accused of cutting a coworker with a boxcutter last...
View ArticleGoogle grant to train eight SOCSD teachers in computer science
By: CHARLIE BENTON Staff Writereduc@starkvilledailynews.comSaturday, June 2, 2018STARKVILLE, MSFollowing a grant from Google, more Mississippi teachers will receive training in teaching computer...
View ArticleBrandon man accused of cyberstalking
By: LOGAN KIRKLANDStaff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSOktibbeha County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Brandon man who sent a substantial amount of text messages and pictures to a woman.Lt. Brett Watson told the...
View ArticleHickory man arrested for burglary
By: LOGAN KIRKLANDStaff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSOktibbeha County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man on June 3 for residential burglary.According to a press release from the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's...
View ArticleMDE releases third grade reading scores
By: CHARLIE BENTON Staff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSThe Mississippi Department of Education has released positive data on the state’s third grade reading assessment scores to the public.Overall, 93.2 percent...
View ArticleMSU to partner with The Conversation
By: CHARLIE BENTON Staff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSFaculty at Mississippi State University now have a new outlet for their expertise, with the university becoming a partner with The Conversation, a nonprofit...
View ArticleSupreme Court vacates concealed carry ban in courthouses
By: RYAN PHILLIPSSDN EditorSTARKVILLE, MSThe Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday vacated a motion made by a lower court out of Lowndes County that banned possession of firearms in courthouses. The...
View ArticleBY THE PRECINCTS: How Oktibbeha County voted
By: SDN StaffStaff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSOktibbeha County saw roughly 15 percent of the county’s 26,880 registered photos make it to the polls. The following is a breakdown of how each precinct in the...
View ArticleJudge awards $500,000 to survivors, estate of fatal 2017 crash
By: LOGAN KIRKLANDStaff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSA final decision regarding a fatal 2017 car wreck involving a Mississippi State University student and a Mississippi Highway Patrolman, was made in Oktibbeha...
View ArticleMDEQ lifts Water Contact Advisory for Hollis Creek
By: LOGAN KIRKLANDStaff Writer STARKVILLE, MSThe Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has lifted a general water contact advisory issued May 13 for a section of Hollis Creek in Oktibbeha...
View ArticleGas leak reported at Highway 12, Airport Road
By: LOGAN KIRKLANDStaff WriterSTARKVILLE, MSA gas leak has been reported at the Sprint Mart located on Highway 12, near Airport Road, according to local emergency management officials. Emergency...
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