MURRAY, KY (KFVS) - Murray State University has announced the featured speaker for their 2013 Presidential Lecture Series will be African-American filmmaker Spike Lee.

The lecture will be on Monday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Murray State’s Lovett Auditorium. The lecture is free. MSU students, faculty and staff, and the general public are encouraged to attend.

Fearless, honest and dedicated to his cause, Lee does not shy away from speaking his mind. In his lecture, “An Evening with Spike Lee: America Through My Lens,” Lee discusses the history, current status and future of America as he sees it. Touching on race relations, stereotypes in Hollywood, and social and political agendas, Lee leaves it all on the table as only he can.

MURRAY, KY (KFVS) - The Murray Police Department responded to a call Tuesday, January 8 of a man near Murray Elementary School carrying what appeared to be a weapon.

Police say the received the call around 11:40 a.m. They say the school was placed on lockdown and a MPD School Resource officer at the elementary school alerted other officers.

According to police, the suspect was detained for investigation and it was determined  that the alleged weapon was in fact a pellet gun the man had been using to exterminate squirrels.

Police say the all clear was given at the school and at no time were any students in any danger.

MURRAY, KY (KFVS) - Murray Head Start was recently selected to participate in a national Head Start program and held its first health care institute at Graves County Central Elementary School, hosting Head Start parents from both the Graves County and Mayfield Independent school districts.

“It was a huge success,” said Murray Head Start director Carol Elder. “There was not an empty seat in the house,” added Whitney Pile, RN and health and nutrition specialist for Murray Head Start.

The Office of Head Start National Center on Health-University of California at Los Angeles Health Care Institute designed the program to empower and enhance parents’ self-esteem by providing them with tools and confidence to actively engage and participate in their child’s health care needs, according to the UCLA Anderson School of Management.