Every year, roughly 230 of the state’s most gifted students flock to Columbus, prepared to take on the challenge of succeeding at Mississippi’s most academically rigorous high school.

Mississippi State and head coach Samantha Ricketts will have their work cut out for them in the new-look Southeastern Conference in 2025. What was already the toughest conference in college ...

SEATTLE — The world’s largest hornet, an invasive breed dubbed the “murder hornet” for its dangerous sting and ability to slaughter a honey bee hive in a matter of hours, has been declared ...

Mayor Keith Gaskin on Friday vetoed a city council decision to assign two police officers to community service for getting into an altercation in front of the Municipal Complex. At Chief Joseph ...

A Starkville man was arrested for allegedly hitting a police car after fleeing a traffic stop early Friday evening. Jaquez Gray, 24, is charged with failure to yield when an officer signals and ...

Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The 1% growth rate this year ...

WEST POINT — Xzavier Orr was about to go into the ninth grade when his house burned down, and his family lost almost everything. But as his mother tried to figure out what to do next, she got a ...

If you’re like me and try to have plants blooming in the yard throughout the year, you may value camellias like I do. This time of the year, my camellias brighten my landscape with their ...

NEW YORK — At Wisconsin’s Mukwonago Community Library, director Abby Armour isn’t only committed to providing books and other media for local residents. Armour, one of 10 recipients this ...

On Feb. 27, 1979, Jim Ellis made his first radio broadcast of a Mississippi State baseball game, a play-by-play account of the Bulldogs’ season-opening 5-0 win over Mississippi College.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Facing a Memphis team that entered Saturday with the third-best 3-point percentage in college basketball, Mississippi State turned the tables on the Tigers. The Bulldogs held No ...

Many American institutions have beclowned themselves in the past 10 years – too many to list. To count the right-leaning institutions that have not succumbed to Trumpian populism takes only one ...