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Deplorable.

The Spectator, the student newspaper of the Mississippi University for Women — a paper steeped in a rich journalistic tradition, will “transition” to an online only publication this fall. So says a pablum-laced release from the University extolling the need to make its graduates more “employable.”

So they are doing what they feel is necessary after hearing from the New York Times‘ Bill Keller and PR Week. This will lead to more in-depth coverage, University officials actually said. Even though the online edition of the newspaper hasn’t been updated since May 1, not even to alert anyone of the print edition’s supposed demise.

Students may not feel the same way. At least not those who have joined a Facebook “Keep the Spectator in Print” group.

A 33-year-old MDOC inmate serving an 18-year sentence for manslaughter has been with the 2002 murder of the husband of a Kosciusko newspaper reporter and editor.

Darrell McBride, who is accused in the cold-case killing of Charles Green of Kosciusko, has been serving time for the 2003 death of a central Mississippi woman.  Green was found slain at his Attala County home in March 2002 by his wife, Nancy Green, a 55-year employee of The Star-Herald.

“This is what the family has anticipated for more than six years,” Nancy Green, who serves as The Star-Herald’s People and Events editor, said. “This is the first step leading to the process that will hopefully bring justice and a sense of completeness to a tragedy that has affected every member of our family. The pain of our loss will always be with us.”

Bill Hunsberger, the longtime and spirited former publisher of The Clarion-Ledger, was memorialized on the fourth anniversary of his death Friday when the newspaper renamed its community room in his honor.

Hunsberger was felled by a heart attack June 13, 2004. He was only 55 years old.

Lauded as a decent man who fervently loved his newspaper and the community it served, Hunsberger served two stints at the C-L, first as its circulation manager in the 1980s and later as its publisher upon his return in 1998.

Clarion-Ledger publisher Larry Whittaker posthumously awarded the Gannett Company’s Chairman’s Ring to Hunsberger by presenting it to his three daughters.

Former Mississippian Paul Bryant has been named editor of the Bastrop Daily Enterprise in Louisiana.

As if on cue, national media coverage of Barack Obama’s marathon jog to the Democratic primary finish line has been predictably contorted to reference Mississippi’s past and the “ghosts” that the nomination of the first black presidential candidate conjures up.

Texas Authorities have charged a teenager with capital murder in the death of a newspaper delivery worker during a robbery. The name of the teen is not being released because he is a juvenile. The now 17-year-old from Mississippi was 16 at the time of the slaying.

Northside Sun publisher Wyatt Emmerich’s nomination to the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority died Monday in a 3-3 tie before the Jackson City Council.