Several sports personalities have quirks and habits. Michael Jordan always wore North Carolina shorts from his college days underneath his Chicago Bulls uniform. LSU football coach, Les Miles, eats a piece of grass from the playing surface before each game’ Add men’s basketball coach Steve Prohm to the list. In the midst of each and Read More
This is the eighth installment of a 12-part series profiling the representatives who make final University decisions. Harry Lee Waterfield II, Board of Regents member, said his love for western Kentucky is a driving force to maintain the integrity of Murray State. Waterfield is also chair of the audit and compliance committee, one of the Read More
The Murray-Calloway Transit Authority will be undergoing several changes next month as they welcome the arrival of new vehicles, GPS upgrades and a new logo. According to MCTA manager Bjarne Hansen, the transit has placed an order of four wheelchair-accessible fleet minivans and two transit-modified fleet vehicles. Hansen said the new Dodge minivans will be Read More
Riding in the wake of the small restaurant influx Murray experienced this past fall, a new Asian buffet-style restaurant, Hibachi King, opened today joining the ranks of Penn Station, Fazoli’s and Dunkin’ Donuts among other businesses which opened in the past few months. Hibachi King now occupies the building that four months ago housed the Read More
I am very disappointed that you would so misrepresent Winslow’s holiday dinner by making it sound like the hors d’ouevres that were offered were in fact the main course. Did you even attend the dinner? If so, how did you happen to miss the multiple serving lines that were set up offering carved prime rib, Read More
As Murray State students finished finals and headed home for winter break, tragedy unfolded in Newtown, Conn. A disturbed young man entered the school and took the lives of 27 individuals, among them himself, 21 of them were students aged 6 or 7 years old. We would like to express our sincere condolences for the Read More
In the column-writing business, you get a lot of mail from your “secret admirers.” Whether they’re mad about what you’re saying, how you’re saying it or they just feel like personally insulting you, the hate mail aspect of the newspaper job is probably one of the most rewarding – I get a kick out of Read More
Jan. 10 7:51 a.m. A caller reported a suspicious person near Sparks Hall. Officers were notified, and the area appeared to be normal. 9:21 p.m. A fire alarm was activated at the West Kentucky Exposition Center. Officers, the Murray Fire Department and the state fire marshal were notified. The alarm was activated due to a Read More