Phoenix Day honors the life of student killed in dorm fire On Sept. 18, the Hester College community gathered to remember the life of a Murray State student who died in a fire 20 years ago in the residential college. The case On Sept. 18, 1998 at 2:38 a.m., a fire broke out on the Read More
Newly renovated Hester Residential College seems to have changed everything over the last year except for one thing – its sense of community. When construction began last year on the 44-year-old residential college, Hester residents were relocated to Old Richmond Residential College. This past weekend, the doors of Hester were opened once again to welcome Read More
Jerry Wayne Walker, Jr., pleaded guilty to six charges of tampering with physical evidence this morning in Calloway County Circuit Court in front of presiding Circuit Court Judge Dennis Foust. Walker, originally indicted in 2001 for the murder of Michael Minger in a dorm fire was acquitted and retried again in 2012, where a jury Read More