Oktibbeha County News

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Starkville's year-to-date sales tax collections for 2009 are slightly down as compared with 2008, but are more or less holding steady and will likely rise before the end of the year, officials say.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Department investigators are awaiting the results of a Monday autopsy as they continue to probe the Sunday morning shooting death of a local hunter.

Chickasaw County Deputy Sheriff James Myers said a jail escapee wanted for murder in another state was found last night in Oktibbeha County.

The gravel road separating Academy Crossing Apartments and the property along Louisville Street owned by Dr.

The most recent Oktibbeha County Circuit Court session wrapped up earlier this month and was highlighted by the capital murder trial of former Mississippi State University student Bobby Batiste, but a number of other individuals also were sentenced by judges Jim Kitchens and Lee Howard.

Special to Daily Times Leader Community Counseling Services would like to welcome Tanya Griggs as the new County Administrator for Clay County.

SDN Staff Reports Those interested in donating candy, phone cards or Christmas cards toward the planned Project SOS Christmas care package drive for National Guardsmen currently serving in Iraq have until Friday to do so.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The local effort to support Operation Christmas Child is kicking into high gear this week as collection of shoe box gifts for children around the world continues.

By KELLY DANIELS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it U.S. pilot veterans are nothing to yawn about.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals will convene on the Mississippi State University campus later this month and hear two cases one originating from Starkville.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The final two of four suspects charged in last fall's armed robbery of a local convenience store have pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the case and will serve some prison time.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan is warning local residents of a potential scam that begins with a telephone call about winning a $500 shopping spree to Wal-Mart. Bryan said a man contacted him about the potential scam over the weekend ...

The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors Monday approved a resolution officially creating the East Oktibbeha Wastewater District.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The Mississippi Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of Willie Prater on a capital murder charge and the sentence of life in prison without parole he received as a result.

An Oktibbeha County man has died in a mobile home fire. Authorities tell the Starkville Daily News that the man's name was not being released until his identity is confirmed.

Paul Sims/SDN Elizabeth Clark, left, and Mary Sampson work to pack bags Wednesday for a supply distribution Friday coinciding with the fifth anniversary celebration for the We Care Committee.

Jurors in the capital murder trial of Bobby Batiste got their first glimpse Wednesday at the brutal slaying of Mississippi State University student Andreas Galanis last March at 21 Apartments, but defense attorney Jim Lappan threw the panel a curve ball when he said during opening statements that Galanis was the aggressor and initiated the fatal ...

By KELLY DANIELS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Testimony in the trial of a former Mississippi State student charged with murdering and robbing his roommate finally began Wednesday after two and a half days of jury selection.

The trial of a former Mississippi State University student accused of killing his roommate last year at an off-campus apartment is set to begin today in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court.

One of Oktibbeha County's five supervisors says he wants to return to the beat system of government that the county abandoned a generation ago.