Wire and cable manufacturer Southwire is expanding its Starkville operations in a project representing more than $256 million in corporate investment and creating 128 jobs. The expansion will add approximately 380,000 square feet to the company’s existing...
Packaging solutions provider DRC Industries is expanding into Lowndes County with a $4 million investment that will create 50 jobs, state and local officials announced. The company will establish operations at an existing facility in Columbus, where it will...
MSU Office of Public Affairs Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway star Leslie Odom Jr. is sure to pack Mississippi State’s Bettersworth Auditorium for the first performance of the university’s 2026-27 Lyceum Series. Odom Jr., best known for his portrayal of...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune A new 14-week training program is being established at Meridian Community College to help staff a data center being built by Compass in the Central Mississippi region. It is estimated that the U.S. will need an...
By Mary Pollitz, MSU Office of Public Affairs Twenty years before Kirklyn Johnson stood in front of thousands of onlookers at his 2026 Mississippi State commencement ceremony to sing the National Anthem, his parents were told he might never speak a word....
By Harriet Laird, MSU Office of Public Affairs Prospective undergraduate students interested in joining Mississippi State’s Bulldog family for the 2027 summer or fall semester should power up their computers by Aug. 1 for Hail State @ 8 CT. MSU’s...
