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CLAY COUNTY – A West Point man faces a slew of charges related to sexual abuse of minors, according to a shertiff’s office press release issued Thursday. Kenneth McWilliams Jr., 41, is charged ...
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump faces significant pushback from federal judges, a new poll shows U.S. adults are more likely to believe the president is the one overstepping his power ...
STARKVILLE – The service areas of city parks already cover much more of the population than officials expected. Adding three more parks over the next 10 years could place its coverage percentage ...
JACKSON — Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in 1976 ...
STARKVILLE — The final three-week sprint to the end of the regular season begins this weekend, and Mississippi State will need to find another gear under interim head coach Justin Parker to ...
The head of PBS said Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to public broadcasting institutions PBS and NPR was blatantly unlawful. NPR’s chief ...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — President Donald Trump offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday in a speech interspersed with impressions of ...
MACON — Mayor-elect Freddie Lee Poindexter, Jr. is set to take office as Macon’s first Black mayor July 1, after receiving 432 votes to Lillian Gillespie’s 376 in the April 22 runoff election.
The city is considering working with the Tupelo-based CREATE Foundation as the fiscal agent for fossil park grants instead of the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation. During Thursday’s city ...
There’s no denying that Mississippi State has failed to perform to its lofty standards for most of this post-national championship era. And at a certain point, it became clear that this was ...
Publisher’s note: The following was originally published at the end of March, on Sean Dietrich’s website. Five years ago I was in Huntsville when the world shut down. Five years. Almost to the ...
Taco Amigo’s Starkville expansion is moving in the right direction. In December, I reported that the Taco Amigo food truck in Columbus was planning to open a restaurant in Starkvegas. Owner ...