Amber Spradley
News Anchor/Multimedia Journalist
Biloxi, MS
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Amber Spradley is a reporter for WLOX News Now and weekend anchor for Good Morning Mississippi. She is originally from Atlanta and graduated magna cum laude from Georgia State University with degrees in journalism and film.
She previously worked as a bureau reporter for Tallahassee’s WCTV Eyewitness News and a general assignment reporter for Panama City Beach’s WMBB News13.
In her free time, she enjoys yoga, dining out with friends and family, and long walks on the beach with her dog, Blakely.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By Amber Spradley
Delo’s Heavenly House of Coffee is where much of the magic happened for 18-year-old Aviya Nettles. It’s also where she sat down with WLOX Tuesday to talk about her latest milestone.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 6:35 PM CDT
|By Amber Spradley
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has approved permitting for Enviva in Stone County, but hundreds of residents are petitioning for county oversight of the facility’s pollution.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2023 at 12:38 PM CDT
|By Amber Spradley
The walking trail was established back in the ‘90s by middle school teachers who aimed to take their science classes outside the classroom. Weathered over the years, faith leaders are now aiming to restore it.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 4:42 PM CDT
|By Amber Spradley
The district has already installed the devices in bathrooms at East Central High as a pilot.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2023 at 6:50 PM CDT
|By Amber Spradley
Gov. Tate Reeves launched the work week by signing several pieces of legislation into law, including House Bill 1027, officially designating blueberries as the state fruit.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 6:30 PM CDT
|By Amber Spradley
Monday, the city held a much-anticipated ribbon cutting before removing traffic cones that have covered the roadway for years.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2023 at 6:50 PM CDT
|By Amber Spradley
One Biloxi man with the right skillset is becoming increasingly popular throughout South Mississippi for his unique hobby and the good it can do.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 6:30 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Senate Bill 2605, which was passed during the 2021 regular session, allows the legal use of golf carts and low-speed vehicles on selected streets within the city.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 2:59 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Ocean Springs leaders provided the Jackson County Board of Supervisors with an update on their Front Beach development Monday.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 2:17 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
A Pascagoula project in the talks for three years is now inching closer to reality.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 6:05 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Project Lead The Way is a course designed to teach science, technology, engineering and math to students of all grade levels: from crafting rockets and studying their launches to building robots and underwater machines.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 6:14 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
As the ethics director, Dorothy Shaw worked to spread awareness about diversity and inclusion across the shipyard and enforce the team’s ethics program.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 7:43 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
One of the biggest highlights of the Mardi Gras season on the Coast, the Gulf Coast Carnival Association Ball took place on Monday.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 4:15 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The military retirement home is looking to fill several federal licensed practical nurse and registered nurse positions; both full-time and intermittent.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 4:08 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The Biloxi Lions Club presented her with the award during a luncheon on Wednesday.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 7:48 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Weckesser lives on Cherokee Drive nearby large industrial plants that have also called Pascagoula home for decades. She and her neighbors have complained about an irritating smell for many years.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 6:09 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The Mississippi Gulf Coast YMCA Miner Natatorium in Ocean Springs is back open following months of restoration.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2023 at 4:10 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Valentine’s Day is Tuesday, but many coastal florists are already feeling the rush.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 6:33 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Wednesday’s event was the first food distribution the church has held after teaming up with Feeding the Gulf Coast.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 6:24 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Jackson County replaced its old TSX Touchscreen voting machines with new Paper Ballot Scanner Machines.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 6:07 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The mural consists of a large eagle with more features to come on the back side of Resurrection Catholic School.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 11:34 AM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The duffle bags will be distributed to nearly 2,800 foster children under the care of CASA, or Court Appointed Special Advocates, across Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 6:00 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
It’s an annual progress report that many taxpayers like to see: from the redistricting plan that becomes effective this month to the amount of taxes collected in 2022, the amount of grant money actively awarded and this year’s budget.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 5:01 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
About 50,000 people currently travel through the particular area of I-10 each day, according to MDOT. With the federal grant, MDOT will widen the roadway to six lanes total, including the bridges.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 6:22 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
One of Moss Point's first new development projects is located on Highway 63 near the I-10 corridor.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 3:48 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Rodger Bradley, an alcohol and drug prevention specialist with Singing River Services, spent Tuesday blanketing bottles sold throughout Pascagoula with the “Think Twice Sticker Shock” campaign stickers.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:22 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Harrison County's four-year road plan is essentially a big to-do list of all the roads that need to be repaired between 2022 and 2025. And county leaders say they're proud of the progress being made.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 5:34 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Board of Supervisors President Randy Bosarge and District 4 Supervisor Troy Ross said the growth of unincorporated Jackson County makes the move vital.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 2:27 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley and WLOX Staff
Music filled the streets of Biloxi as the 2023 MLK Coastwide parade took off from the Salvation Army Kroc Center around 11 a.m.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 5:56 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
That training returns to the top of mind following Hamlin’s incident, especially for staff members who have experienced a similar emergency firsthand.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 6:28 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The Fin whale that washed up in the Pass is an endangered species and the first of its kind ever seen in Mississippi.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2023 at 2:38 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
IMMS, NOAA and other local, state and federal agencies worked to pull the whale to shore Saturday for testing. The discovery comes just three days after a dead dolphin washed up on the same beach.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 6:30 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Authorities said the ambulance crashed on Interstate 10 in St. Tammany Parish around 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day. The patient and another paramedic survived, but Crow died at the scene.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 8:07 AM CST
|By Amber Spradley
One legacy he leaves behind is a historical marker located at the intersection of Highway 49 and 13th Street.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 5:10 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Homeowner Thomas Brown told WLOX that his family of five was home at the time when the smoke detector sounded: he, his wife, their daughter and two granddaughters.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 3:17 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Whether it’s not the best fit or there’s something else in store, shoppers flocked to make their exchanges and returns following Christmas.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 6:21 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Wednesday’s joint funeral service for Sergeant Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe was followed by a procession that took off from the Bay St. Louis Community Center at about 1:30 p.m.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 6:14 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The Bay St. Louis Police Department is preparing to lay its two fallen officers to rest on Wednesday: Sgt. Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 4:37 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
As the WLOX First Alert Weather Team predicts, the blast of cold air will send temperatures plummeting into the teens and 20′s for three consecutive nights.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 3:43 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
About 300 people showed up for the holiday tradition, many decked out in festive outfits.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 3:00 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Now backed with about $6.5 million in total from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense and Mississippi State University, Keesler plans to stabilize and protect 2.5 miles of Biloxi’s Back Bay shoreline.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 5:59 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The project to widen the road costs about $6.5 million, but both residents and county officials said it’s taking contractors too long to get done.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 5:37 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Robert McKeithen was a long-time Biloxi Police Officer who was ambushed and killed in the line of duty.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 8:42 AM CST
|By Amber Spradley
According to residents, this is not the first time it has happened. When the same issue occurred just a few weeks ago, they said management told them to clean it themselves.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 4:11 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
City officials are looking to expand the city limits into two unincorporated areas of Jackson County. It is something city leaders have been studying for about a year now.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 3:40 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
The city opened the facility to residents on Nov.16 with more than 50 people showing up the first day to play.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 5:00 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
According to financial expert Gregory Ricks out of Gulfport, more than 30 million people participated last year and raised about $2.7 billion for charities worldwide.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 3:19 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
Superintendent Carla Evers said the donation will help expand the district’s pre-K program by opening one additional class at Pass Christian Elementary and another at Head Start.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 5:21 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
You can expect to see more traffic on the roads and in the sky with Thanksgiving Day less than 24 hours away.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 4:55 PM CST
|By Amber Spradley
With Thanksgiving approaching next week, Feeding the Gulf Coast is working to distribute nearly 200,000 pounds of food to more than 7,000 families in our community.
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