Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 2:17 PM CST
|By Chris Thies and Debra Worley
A mother was arrested for felony child abuse after her 1-year-old child tested positive for several drugs, according to the Jones County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 11:50 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Bond was denied Wednesday for a man accused of planting an explosive device at an AT&T site in Jefferson Davis County earlier this month.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 11:48 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
A traffic stop in New Augusta led to the seizure of more than 17 pounds of cocaine.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 11:11 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Lester Brown, 51, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute narcotics.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 at 9:38 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies and Eddie Robertson
The explosion happened Wednesday morning on Job R Lane in the Moselle area.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2021 at 5:12 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Bok Homa Casino announced the mandatory mask policy on Wednesday evening.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2021 at 5:17 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Players and the Golden Eagle community got a look at the new uniforms players will wear on gamedays.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2021 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
A small crowd has gathered at the Laurel Police Department to protest the Tasing of a teenager by LPD officers.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 2:33 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
The U.S. Coast Guard identified the missing swimmer as 18-year-old Rob Brent.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2021 at 5:29 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Investigators in Covington County uncovered a large cache of stolen Dollar General merchandise.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 4:34 PM CST
|By Chris Thies and Mia Monet
A controversial school assignment has sparked outrage in the Lamar County community.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2021 at 11:19 AM CST
|By Chris Thies
“Act quickly—book an appointment for yourself and loved ones!” Gov. Reeves tweeted.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 11:16 AM CST
|By Chris Thies
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 1:39 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
The case will be presented to a grand jury at a later time.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 12:36 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
Hattiesburg police started investigating the death Wednesday morning.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 10:43 AM CST
|By Chris Thies
John Henry Wells, 43, is being charged with two counts of murder.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2020 at 4:39 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
The attack happened about a mile south of Epley Station.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 12:08 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Izaun Cade Baxter is charged with two counts of manslaughter, culpable negligence.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 5:07 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
A correctional officer at the Forrest County Jail accused of having sexual relations with female inmates has been arrested and charged.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Tiffany Meghan McClellan was sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by 20 years of probation.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 1:30 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies and Tim Doherty
The football team will not practice Friday as players intend to march in protest of “instances of racial injustice in our country.”
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 3:57 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Two homes and a vehicle were damaged in the fire, but no one was injured.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 1:50 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
A homicide investigation is underway after a woman’s body was discovered Tuesday.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Two former Laurel, Miss. police officers have been indicted by a grand jury in Jasper County.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 5:13 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
The university announced it was forced to cancel graduation ceremonies that had been scheduled for August.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 1:10 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies and Jeffrey Morgan
The Forrest County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to put the issue of relocating the statue on the ballot in November.
Updated: May. 28, 2020 at 9:16 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
The semester will begin on Aug. 17, and on-campus instruction will end Nov. 23.
Updated: May. 28, 2020 at 4:30 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
HGTV announced Thursday the hit show “Home Town” will be back with 16 new episodes in 2021.
Updated: May. 27, 2020 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington and Chris Thies
Logan Thomas Shows, 18, was killed in a crash on Cascio Taormina Road in the Sanford community.
Updated: May. 5, 2020 at 11:42 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
The audit says Favre Enterprises was paid $1.1 million for events Favre was contracted to speak at but never did.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2020 at 1:33 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Mississippi has been battered by tornadoes twice since April 12.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2020 at 6:26 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Tom Lester, a Mississippi native and actor best known for his role on the sitcom “Green Acres”, has died.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2020 at 11:57 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Gov. Tate Reeves and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann spent Tuesday morning in some of the areas most heavily damaged by Sunday’s storms.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2020 at 3:08 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Camp Shelby is being outfitted to house 200 hospital beds.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2020 at 1:53 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
The employee was a mechanical subcontractor who worked at Cook Library.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2020 at 9:56 AM CST
|By Chris Thies and Carly Blake
Jones County Sheriff Joe Berlin called the murder of Betty Lou Dickerson a “heinous crime.”
Updated: Jan. 24, 2020 at 9:42 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
More than a dozen railroad cars derailed in Petal just after midnight Friday.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2020 at 5:58 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
One of the inmates who escaped from the Covington County Jail late Wednesday night is back in custody.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2020 at 2:50 PM CST
|By Chris Thies and Charles Herrington
The search is on for three inmates who escaped from the Covington County Jail.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2019 at 3:39 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
The man who pleaded guilty to selling a gun to the suspect accused of killing two Hattiesburg police officers in 2015 is back behind bars in Forrest County.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2019 at 9:58 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
Maj. Jamie Tedford, with the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, said deputies recovered a man's body in Eastabuchie Sunday morning.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2019 at 12:26 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
A suspect wanted in an ongoing murder investigation in the Hub City was arrested last week in San Diego, Calif.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2019 at 1:32 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
A state inmate who escaped from a work detail in Lincoln County on Monday is back in custody.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2019 at 10:00 AM CST
|By Chris Thies
Officials with the Morgan City Police Department said Jose Angel Melendez-Davila was captured just before 5 a.m.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2019 at 2:23 PM CST
|By Chris Thies
A second man who pleaded guilty to participating in a cross burning in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Mississippi has been sentenced to prison.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 4:16 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Authorities are looking for an inmate who escaped from the Jones County Jail on Friday afternoon.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2019 at 5:57 PM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Twenty-three soldiers were hurt during jump training exercise at Camp Shelby on the night of Wednesday, Oct. 2.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2019 at 12:41 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
Several soldiers were injured during a nighttime airborne training exercise Wednesday at Camp Shelby.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2019 at 11:26 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
For the first time ever, beer and light wine will be sold inside M.M. Roberts Stadium when the Golden Eagles take on the UTEP Miners.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2019 at 11:45 AM CDT
|By Chris Thies
One person was killed when two oil storage tanks exploded Friday morning in Wayne County.