Mississippi State News

With college football practices just around the corner, many head coaches use this time of year to gather with staff members and their families for a summer retreat.

"I've known for about a month that I wanted to go to Missouri," Floyd said. "Because I want the chance to play in the best conference in the Country."

The Mississippi State Department of Health reminds all parents that state law requires certain vaccinations for all students entering school, Head Start or daycare this fall.

There is a very interesting project that was conducted between the CDC and the Mississippi State Department of Health.

The state health department only reports laboratory-confirmed cases to the public.

When Mississippi Maritime Museum's board of directors began discussing renovation plans for an interim museum and design blueprints for a permanent one, they contacted the Magnolia State's only postsecondary architecture school.

Shivangi last week assumed the office of chair of the Board of Mental Health which is the second largest state agency with a budget close to billion dollars with the staff of 8,500.

Commissioners for the Mississippi State Port Authority have approved a letter of intent with a company Friday for a potential five to seven acre lease on the West Pier, according to a release from the Port of Gulfport.

The Mississippi Supreme Court says they are not going to rehear State Senator Chris McDaniel's request for unredacted poll books.

With the Southern Miss football season opener a little over a month away, Golden Eagle fans can mingle with head coach Todd Monken and players today in Long Beach.

Sometimes in recruiting this old adage applies: When it rains, it pours. Things are coming a flood for Mississippi State and Dan Mullen right now, fresh off the heels of the annual Big Dawg Camp which was held last Friday night at Davis Wade.

From left, Yolanda Pruitt, Project Director; Christi Webb, Executive Director; Donna Barnes, Assistant Project Director; Debbie Underwood, Fiscal Agent; and Johnna Rogers, Special Projects Director of the Mississippi State Department of Health.

Gulfport coach Eddie Pierce said Smith will likely be signed by Ole Miss and placed at a junior college next year because he doesn't have a qualifying ACT test score.

The Clarion-Ledger ranks the Batman movies , as today is Batman Day. Personally I can't get behind any list that has Batman Begins at #2.

Last month, Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel lost a close runoff to four-decade long incumbent Senator Thad Cochran .

On March 21-22, 1968 a snowstorm blew into North Mississippi with accumulations up to umpteen inches according to those who survived to exaggerate the story.

Mississippi Association of Coaches executive director Johnny Mims, right, addresses the move of the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star Football Classic to Southern Mississippi's M.M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg in 2015 and 2017 from venues in Alabama, during a news conference at the Mississippi High School Activities Association offices in Clinton, ... (more)

By announcing the hiring of Samantha Ricketts Monday, Mississippi State took care of its assistant softball coaching vacancy created when Beth Mullins left to become the head coach at Troy.

An announcement is scheduled to be made Monday morning on where state high school playoff games will be moved to from Jackson.

Ryan Wilson and Matt Plitt combined on a six-hitter and Louisiana-Lafayette beat Mississippi State 5-3 on Monday night to advance to the NCAA super regionals for the first time since its last and only College World Series appearance in 2000.