Daniella Tebib News Editor dtebib@murraystate.edu Andy Beshear announced the highest number of positive COVID-19 cases in a single day for Kentucky on the same day the Calloway County Health Department reported a second death related to COVID-19. As of press time, Calloway County has reported a total of 123 cases with four hospitalized patients, 21 Read More
By Brianna Willis, Assistant Features Editor The week before classes started I had a family member pass away from an injury. I was devastated, and it was incredibly hard for me to focus on the RA training I was supposed to walk into 5 minutes after I received “the call” from my dad. “The call” Read More
Story by Ashley Traylor, Staff writer Police are still investigating the Tuesday night house fire on Highway 121 that left four dead. No new information regarding the fire has been released, state Trooper Jay Thomas said Thursday. A Murray State student called the fire into the Murray Police Department. The Kentucky State Police arrived on the scene Read More
Story by Alicia Steele, Staff writer An 18-year-old former high school class president with goals of transferring to Murray State died Wednesday night after his friend accidentally shot him in the chest, according to the Murray Police Department. Jamel Al-Shubili, of Mayfield, Kentucky, was shot at a friend’s duplex on Stadium View Drive around 8 p.m. Police Read More
Supporter. Encourager. Racer. Last Friday, Murray State lost icon James Carter. Carter, vice president of Institutional Advancement died while undergoing cancer treatments at Vanderbilt Medical Center. President Bob Davies informed the faculty and staff on Saturday afternoon, asking them to keep Carter’s family and friends in their thoughts and prayers. “While we mourn his passing, Read More
In an email to the Board of Regents Oct. 6, President Bob Davies announced the death of a Murray State student. Paige Porupski, senior from Pittsburgh, was found dead the morning of Oct. 5. Her body was found in the vacation home she and her friends had rented for Fall Break in Gatlinburg, Tenn. An Read More
I saw a video of a car crash on YouTube when I was in middle school. I’ll never forget it. It was a ten-second video of an SUV driving down an icy freeway. The driver lost control after hitting a patch of ice and slid in the opposing lane, colliding headfirst with a semi-truck and Read More