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June 5th, 2013
FOX Broadcasting Network is sending one of its brashest, bluntest critics to Starkville to help whip one of the city’s historic sites into shape.
Starkville Police Department said on Tuesday the DNA from William Vail does not match the DNA profile of the perpetrator of a double homicide from Sept. 3, 1990.
Starkville Board of Aldermen appointed Caroline Moore as the city’s new prosecutor Tuesday during the board’s regularly scheduled meeting. She will be compensated $50,000 per year for the position.
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The National Park Service expressed its positive opinion of the long-discussed hotel/conference center project at the Cooley Center on Tuesday, which project leaders said would help it advance to the next round of planning and implementation.
After a hard-fought campaign in both camps, Democratic incumbent Parker Wiseman claimed victory over Republican challenger Dan Moreland on Tuesday.
Counting absentee and machine votes citywide, Wiseman took 2,299 votes to Moreland's 1,817.
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June 4th
Football and life are the hot topics at the Starkville Sportsplex this week.
Sleepy Robinson, a former Mississippi State University quarterback, and some of his friends have been spending their time hosting a football skills and life camp at the complex.
Former Mississippi State quarterbacks Sleepy Robinson and Greg Plump have some things in common.
Robinson and Plump were roommates during their time in Starkville, they both have thrown a touchdown pass in a bowl game, both were high school coaches on the sideline at Durant.
They are together again in Starkville this week at the Robinson Football/Life Skills camp at the Sportsplex.
Sleepy Robinson, Greg Plump, Robert Young, Charlie Davidson, Eric Moulds made a name for themselves during their football careers with the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
After their playing careers were over, they all went their separate ways and are successful in various areas of their lives.
John Cohen admitted Monday night that he probably couldn't name in players from Virginia's baseball team.
The fifth-year Mississippi State head coach was so locked into the three other teams at the Starkville Regional that he didn't have time to look ahead to Virginia.
It may also have something to do with a superstition.
This summer, the staff at Starkville Public Library (SPL) have lined the path to better reading with prizes.
