Updated: Oct. 26, 2023 at 11:16 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter
In 1977, some 20 men saw something above a cotton field near Flora, Mississippi. The mystery surrounding that night still lives today.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2023 at 12:20 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Josh Carter
This is a developing story.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2023 at 6:31 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter and Patrice Clark
For some, kratom has been a miracle drug, helping them escape their addictions. For others, kratom became their addiction.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2023 at 6:46 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter and Quentin Smith
In an interview with WLBT News, McDaniel discussed his popularity on social media and why he thinks he’s considered so controversial.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2023 at 11:45 AM CDT
|By Holly Emery and Josh Carter
20 years after the murder of his mother and step-father, Zeno Mangum is fighting the release of their killer: his own step-brother.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By Holly Emery and Josh Carter
At the age of 61, Tom Bradshaw became a father for the first time after his daughter went on a years-long mission to find him.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 6:10 PM CST
|By Josh Carter and Andrew McMunn
In September 2022, Katie Baunach’s life was allegedly taken at the hands of her ex-husband, Ian Baunach, who is a bodybuilder and former Marine.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 11:40 AM CST
|By Josh Carter
Carolyn McKinney is now raising her grandchildren in Mississippi after her daughter, Katie Baunach, was allegedly killed by her ex-husband in Florida.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 2:35 PM CST
|By Josh Carter, Joseph Doehring and Jordan Gartner
Pro football Hall of Fame player Deion Sanders is selling his Mississippi home.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 1:49 PM CST
|By Josh Carter and Joseph Doehring
The home is described as a “Farmhouse Oasis.”
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 4:25 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
The death penalty is seen as the ultimate punishment. Yet for some victim’s families, it yields a high cost.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 12:17 PM CST
|By Josh Carter, Anthony Warren and Debra Worley
Officers with the Jackson Police Department found a charred arm on the road and more of the body later in a wooded area behind a nearby abandoned home.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 10:44 AM CST
|By Josh Carter, Anthony Warren and C.J. LeMaster
Victim's body found behind abandoned home on Terry Road.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
Coach Prime has instituted a rule for his players following a popular rapper’s shooting death in Houston.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 9:07 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter and Jordan Gartner
Authorities in Mississippi say a man pretending to be a cop recently startled several workers at an ice cream shop.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 10:31 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter
A reverend in Sumrall, Mississippi, refused to baptize an infant after initially agreeing to it. One reason he refused: the parents were living together "in sin."
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 10:21 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter, WDAM Staff and Debra Worley
Authorities said Inscoe became a suspect in Sistrunk’s killing after being stopped by an officer while she was driving a vehicle that belonged to the victim.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:38 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
Honda Collier said the decision was a desperate yet necessary decision for both her safety and the safety of her grandson.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 11:10 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter
How could a grandmother do that? She says it was for the safety of both her and her grandson.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 4:34 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
Gov. Reeves said it is not “easy or fair” for those in the city to deal with this burden.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 12:35 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the water crisis in the City of Jackson, and the White House “stand[s] ready” to assist.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren, Josh Carter and C.J. LeMaster
Reeves wasn’t sure how long the state would be assisting the city, but officials said it could be for several months.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
“Yellow 410" is the longest female alligator ever captured in Mississippi and could be anywhere from 75-100 years old.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 11:11 AM CDT
|By Holly Emery and Josh Carter
On August 4, a jury found Fox guilty of culpable negligence manslaughter.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 5:15 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
The release of the footage comes after a video of the incident went viral, with the family claiming “violent behavior” on the trooper’s part.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 12:24 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
A resident of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, has been named as a defendant in a $300 million, multi-country “textbook pyramid and Ponzi scheme.”
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
In a statement to NBC News, Airbnb said “properties that formerly housed the enslaved” have no place on the rental company.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 11:16 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter
The first case was reported in the state on July 25.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 12:55 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter, Anthony Warren and Quentin Smith
The crash is being investigated by the Highway Patrol and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 9:59 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter
According to a press release, it will be located off Interstate 55 in Ridgeland, northeast of the Renaissance at Colony Park.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 2:19 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
The Unborn Child Support Act would allow a court to award child support payments while the child is still in the womb and, retroactively, up to the point of conception.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 12:11 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
On Tuesday, June 28, the “difficult decision” was made to suspend the search for Davis, according to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 7:21 AM CDT
|By Josh Carter and Patrice Clark
The announcement came Sunday night at the BET Awards as Sean “Diddy” Combs accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 2:49 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
On Wednesday, Massachusetts reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada. The case is the first in the U.S. this year.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
Mississippi has a new blue catfish state record.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 9:45 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter and Jordan Gartner
Three people are under arrest after an 18-year-old girl’s body was found dumped on the side of the road last month in Mississippi.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 3:41 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter and Quentin Smith
Three people are in police custody and charged with capital murder after allegedly shooting, kidnapping and raping a teenage girl, leaving her dead.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 5:22 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
One company is willing to pay you over $700 for your first 8 plasma donations. But their tactics have been subject to scrutiny.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 3:21 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
Her visit comes nearly a year after First Lady Jill Biden visited Jackson in order to promote the coronavirus vaccine.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 4:32 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
Prince, Cher, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Elton John and... Beyoncé!
Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 at 4:08 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
Bare-knuckle fighting is exactly what it sounds like. It's only legal in a few states, Mississippi being one of them. This is what it's like inside the ring.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2022 at 4:35 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
A Brandon man who received two life sentences in 2021 for crimes committed against two children and their grandmother has died.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2022 at 5:43 PM CST
|By Josh Carter and Melissa Payne
The District Attorney of Jefferson Davis County says that a child’s innocence was lost after they were allegedly kidnapped and raped repeatedly by two men last week.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2021 at 11:02 PM CST
|By Josh Carter and Quentin Smith
Terrance Freeman swears that this actually happened.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2021 at 5:27 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
Gov. Tate Reeves has joined four other governors in asking that their state’s National Guard members be exempt from a federal coronavirus vaccine mandate.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2021 at 3:51 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
A former presidential candidate and the country of Russia are criticizing Senator Roger Wicker for threats he lobbed during recent interviews.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 3:40 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
Since the beginning of 2020, over $40 million in unclaimed property has been returned to Mississippians.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2021 at 3:48 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren and Josh Carter
Cox waived his attorney-client privilege shortly before his execution.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 4:34 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
Another record was also broken in June of 2021, which became the deadliest month in Jackson history with 17.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 6:32 PM CST
|By Josh Carter
According to the poll's results, Joe Biden has a negative approval rating in all but 6 states.