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Parking fine increases delayed until June

February 6, 2013

By NATHAN GREGORY
citybeat@starkvilledailynews.com

If Starkville Aldermen approved downtown parking fine increases effective immediately, there would have been one problem, Police Chief David Lindley said at the board’s Tuesday meeting.

The people tasked with writing parking tickets wouldn’t be able to write any more of them until they got new ones.

Bill would allow 2 school employees to carry firearms

February 6, 2013

By CARL SMITH
news@starkvilledailynews.com

A bill authorizing school district officials to carry concealed weapons passed the Miss. House Education Committee Monday and will move to the full house for discussion.

Bulldogs anticipate national signing day

February 6, 2013

By BEN WAIT
sports@starkvilledailynews.com

For many avid college football fans, today will feature some of the biggest headlines of the college football season.

No, there isn’t a game today or the start of fall practice — it’s National Signing Day. Many recruits will sign with their college choice today.

Miss. Kids Count cites Emerson as a success story

February 6, 2013

By STEVEN NALLEY
educ@starkvilledailynews.com

Mississippi Kids Count recognized the Starkville School District’s Emerson Family Center as one of its Success Stories at its Light Up the Night dinner Friday in Jackson, giving Emerson a place of honor in the recently released 2013 Mississippi Kids Count Data Book.