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Student visa restored, for now

River Murt, News Editor April 28, 2025

The New York Times reported the Trump Administration had “walked back” their cancellation of more than 1,500 student visas. According to National Public...

Student's visa revoked, activists react

Student’s visa revoked, activists react

River Murt, News Editor April 19, 2025

In the morning of April 15, Robert Pervine, senior associate provost, sent an email to the deans of Murray State University. In the email was advice on...

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Khatib wins again, says lawsuit still ongoing

River Murt, Staff Writer April 16, 2025

After another election, one ordered special from the Student Government Association’s Judicial Board, Ali Khatib was elected again for SGA president.  This...

BREAKING: Campus closes ahead of severe weather

BREAKING: Campus closes ahead of severe weather

Bri Hunter, Editor in Chief April 2, 2025

Murray State's main and regional campuses are closing today at 12:30 p.m. and transferring to virtual classes through tomorrow due to severe weather. Administration...

SGA going to trial, challenge over election results

SGA going to trial, challenge over election results

River Murt, Staff Writer March 31, 2025

The Murray State University Student Judicial Board will hear a complaint Monday from Student Government Association President Brendan Hawkins, challenging...

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Creighton assistant accepts men’s basketball head coaching job

Zach Simmons, Sports Editor March 14, 2025

Six days after Steve Prohm “stepped down” as Murray State’s head men’s basketball coach, Murray State has hired the next coach to lead the prestigious...

Head coach Steve Prohm talks to his players during a timeout.

BREAKING: Prohm out as men’s basketball head coach

Zach Simmons, Sports Editor March 7, 2025

After a 72-60 loss to Bradley in the quarterfinal round of the Missouri Valley Conference Championship tournament, Steve Prohm stepped down as head coach...

The shaded area represents the Murray State University campus. Power was restored to the northwest area of Murray early Saturday morning after an outage, but the outage continues on campus.

Power outage continues on Murray State campus

Staff report February 15, 2025

The Murray State University campus remains without power shortly after noon on Saturday, Feb. 15. According to a statement emailed to the campus community,...

City council results in incumbent losing re-election effort.

Murray City Council sees incumbent lose re-election effort

Ethan Alexander, Contributing Writer November 5, 2024

Incumbent Murray city councilman John Mark Roberts lost his race for re-election as newcomer Thomas Hornbuckle Jr. defeats him by nearly 400 votes.  John...

The political divide between residents ends with Calloway County going red in the presidential election.

Calloway County goes red in presidential election

Zoe Lewis, Contributing Writer November 5, 2024

Color red in for Calloway County: Former President Donald Trump won the presidential election for this western Kentucky county.  Calloway County has...

BREAKING: Lawrent Rice arrested

BREAKING: Lawrent Rice arrested

Zach Simmons, Sports Editor October 28, 2024

Lawrent Rice, a sophomore guard for the men’s basketball team, was arrested on Oct. 27. Rice was arrested on charges of 4th degree dating violence,...

Murray State president Bob Jackson announced his intention to retire effective June 30, 2025.

Regents begin search for 15th president

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor October 1, 2024

The Murray State Board of Regents will begin the search for the 15th president after president Bob Jackson announced on Monday his retirement next summer.  Jackson...

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