Story by Brianna Willis, Staff writer A county-wide power outage occurred, canceling events and classes at 2:30 p.m. March 31. According to the Murray Electric System Facebook page, lightning struck a main substation, cutting off power for Murray and Calloway County. For some, playing games was how they handled the loss of power. For others, life carried Read More
Our View The staff editorial is the majority opinion of The Murray State News Editorial Board. Students are undoubtedly the most important part of any university. As the primary consumers of an institution, we should be kept satisfied, safe and in high priority by our school. However, it seemed like Murray State was one university Read More
Winter weather, the hope of class cancelations and confusion over schedules plagued students this week. Ice and a small amount of snow fell on campus Sunday night and another round of a wintery mix fell Tuesday. Murray State decided Monday morning to institute a two-hour delay schedule, where all classes after 7:30 a.m. met later Read More
Students anxiously followed Sunday night’s storms that tore through the region, leaving several dead and many without homes – concerned for friends and family members. Hundreds of homes were destroyed from the storms that ravaged the Midwest Sunday night, including Anna Tignor’s, senior from Washington, Ill. She was driving back to Murray after her grandmother’s Read More
Olivia Medovich Staff writer As high winds, quarter-sized hail and two tornadoes swept through Calloway County late Sunday night, students crowded together in their powerless residential colleges and took cover. Local TV and radio stations had predicted severe storms in the community for most of the day. Although isolated tornadoes were possible, the National Read More