Sturgis News

Kelli Jackson's beaver felt cowboy hat used to be white. That was way back in January, when she began her reign as Miss Rodeo Mississippi 2009.

As part of the civil rights-era cold case Initiative, the FBI is currently reassessing more than 100 unsolved or inadequately solved racially motivated homicides from the civil rights era, officials said.

The FBI is seeking to find family members of 33 people slain during the civil rights movement.

Zach Booth of Vicksburg was 13 years old and had never seriously pondered his sexual orientation.

Officials at one Pine Belt high school are considering guidelines for senior portraits after the superintendent of Copiah County schools recently refused to include a lesbian student's picture in the yearbook.

An openly gay teenager posing in a tuxedo for her high school year book has garnered national attention.

A Mississippi school superintendent said Friday that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep a teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook.

A lesbian student in Mississippi is fighting to make her school use a photograph of her dressed in a tuxedo in her senior yearbook.

There it was in a remote part of the Yukon, nearly 4000 miles from Pearl River County and about 10 feet in the air, a two foot long road sign with the words, "Carriere, MS." For Brian and Barry Pearson, they were amazed to see the dark green sign.

Published: Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 11, 2009 at 12:54 p.m. Elizabeth Marie Sloan and Samuel Martin Presley, both of Memphis, Tenn., were married on September 12, 2009.

Aldermen vote for millage increase City leaders hope increase in funding will improve city coffers After holding several budget workshops, the Louisville Board of Aldermen in its September 1 meeting voted to raise the millage 5.37 mills.

They were called to service Tuesday. The 160-member unit marched into the exhibit room at the Vicksburg Convention Center full of pride and enthusiasm for the mission.

Brian Hawkins/SDN Above, Central Oktibbeha volunteer firefighters work to make sure all a oehot spotsa are extinguished following a residential fire on at the home of Pamela and Gregory Johnson on Glenn Lane Thursday afternoon.

The riders started trickling in to Village Cycle Center in Clayton Village Friday at around 4 p.m. First they came in ones and twos, the chrome on their motorcycles gleaming under the hot summer sun.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it STURGIS - Here are a few interesting tidbits from this year's Sturgis South All-Bike Motorcycle Rally: At least 13 states were represented at this year's event, according to official registration lists.

Brian Hawkins/SDN Main Street in Sturgis was lined with motorcycles of every size, shape and color as far as the eye could see during the Sturgis South All-Bike Motorcycle Rally on Saturday.

SDN File photo Above, todaya s Dinner Ride for the Sturgis South All-Bike Motorcycle Rally will see its first leg pass through Starkville sometime between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. today on Highway 12 East.

The town of Sturgis is bracing for an influx of bikers this weekend as the 13th edition of the Sturgis South Motorcycle Rally kicks off in southwestern Oktibbeha County.

SDN Staff Reports Work by Starkville Daily News staff members was recognized as some of the best among the state's daily newspapers during the Mississippi Press Association's annual convention this past weekend in Biloxi.

Walking through green rows in a field with a picturesque blue sky above can only be enhanced by a cool breeze blowing the scent of fresh strawberries in your direction.