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HATTIESBURG (WDAM) - Hattiesburg Police are currently working a possible attempted robbery of the Regions Bank located on Highway 98 west near The Arbor shopping plaza. Details are sketchy but authorities
Courtesy: KLFY-TVThe explosion occurred 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay around 9 a.m., and the rig is still on fire.
Forrest Co. (WDAM)- An escapee from the Forrest county community work center has been captured in North Mississippi. 39 year old Paul Pettis was apprehended by sheriffs deputies in Panola county Wednesday
A Regions branch bank was robbed around 11:30 a.m. along the 4800 block of Hardy Street.
Associated Press - September 2, 2010 10:34 AM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 20 counties in Mississippi as natural disaster areas because of losses...
Hurricane Earl continued to barrel toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday.
Tropical Storm Gaston, which became the seventh named storm of the season Wednesday afternoon, further slowed its pace Thursday morning on its trek across the open eastern Atlantic Ocean.
Engineers don't expect to see another gusher Thursday when they delicately remove a cap on the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well
Associated Press - September 2, 2010 6:34 AM ET McCOMB, Miss. (AP) - A 27-year-old woman who admitted to letting her 2-year-old child starve to death has been sentenced to 40 years in...
Johnson & Johnson DePuy has recalled one of it's artificial hip products.
A Lamar county toddler is lucky to be alive after being mauled by a neighbor's pit bull.
A Purvis Christian ministry that provides a home for children in crisis has gotten a second large grant from a major corporation.
You can help some homeless pets in our area and maybe even win a new car by participating in a raffle for the Southern Pines Animal Shelter.
On Monday, Southern Miss's President Martha Saunders announced how USM plans to address an anticipated 15-million dollar budget shortfall for the 2012 fiscal year. The proposal encompassed faculty layoffs, program consolidations and even the deletion of some fields like religion.
Despite organized opposition, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will proceed with new casino plans for Jones county. Today in Neshoba county Choctaw Miko Beasley Denson talked about the controversial casino the tribe is currently building in Jones county. Denson appears resolved to going ahead with the project despite protests from some state officials.
President Obama says he's not going to let extremists get in the way of new Middle East peace talks. The negotiations aim to create a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel.
Philanthropist Charles Guidroz has parlayed his appreciation for the DuBard School for Language Disorders at USM into a donor advised fund.
It's a question that keeps surfacing: Is seafood from the Gulf safe to eat? A new study posted Wednesday by a private Boston lab raises questions about whether toxic chemicals are still in the water and the food chain. The lab said it found dispersant in a water sample near Horn Island, and it claims samples show oil and toxins in crab. Trang Pham-Bui asked some consumers in Biloxi if they are concerned about the findings.
Along the East coast, people are bracing for at least a glancing blow from category 4 Hurricane Earl. The massive storm is on track to bring punishing winds, heavy rains and dangerous currents to the eastern seaboard. The outer banks of North Carolina will likely see the first, and some of the worst, of the storm.
At Grace Christian Elementary School in Hattiesburg Wednesday dozens of students were recognized for their excellent performance on state tests.
University Medical Center is being sued by 3 private hospitals, Baptist, Saint Dominic, and the Central Mississippi Medical Center. At issue is whether UMC should get another major piece of medical equipment to treat cancer patients.
Mississippi holds the number one spot for teen births, and local counties are contributing to that number.
Associated Press - September 1, 2010 2:04 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Steve Spurrier says South Carolina is focused and ready to play Southern Miss, no matter how often he's asked about...
Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: "It's time to turn the page." Now, he said, the nation's...
Associated Press - September 1, 2010 12:24 PM ET The federal government's point man on the Gulf of Mexico spill response says there is no "significant risk" that more oil will leak into the sea...
For the last 2 years, Dalton Lumpkin and his wife have called site number 63 at Little Black Creek Waterpark home.
Residents of the U.S. East Coast need to take steps to prepare for Hurricane Earl, say Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials.
Women who carry genetic mutations that boost their odds of breast and ovarian cancer can live longer and reduce their cancer risk by having preventive surgery, a new study suggests.
Associated Press - September 1, 2010 6:24 AM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Police are trying to piece together a double shooting that left one man dead and another hospitalized in northwest...
Hurricane Earl weakens to a Category 3 storm; hurricane watch issued for Virginia coast.
Hinds county deputies bust members of an interstate counterfeiting ring who targeted stores in the metro Jackson area. The take down has launched a multi-state investigation.
Transcript released by The White House of the August 31st remarks by President Barack Obama regarding the end of combat operations in Iraq.
Hattiesburg officials and Mayor DuPree are looking for federal dollars to build a new police department.
Final changes are being made to the city of Laurel's 2011 budget before sending it to the full council on next Tuesday night. The first thing out...unnecessary travel.
A Lamar county toddler is lucky to be alive after being mauled by a pitbull. Tonight in a story you will only see on News Seven, we sit down with the family to see how this all happened and how their daughter is doing.
Hybrid cars are changing the way some people drive, but they're also changing the way rescuers handle emergencies. The high voltage systems pose a different kind of risk that rescuers need to know how to deal with.
Hyundai Motor America says the automaker will shift manufacturing of its Santa Fe SUV to another plant.
Mississippi tax collections were above expectations in August, for the second month in a row.
A reception is set for Wednesday, Sept. 1 in the gallery of Cook Library at USM for the opening of a new exhibit on Taiwan.
At least some better than expected news on the economy. The latest numbers on consumer confidence, the banking industry, and housing all appear well, but job worries continue to drag down the mood.
Today marks the official end to the US combat mission in Iraq and tonight President Obama will mark the event with a prime time oval office address to the nation.
Hurricane Earl is now a category four storm, packing winds of 135 miles-per- hour. The storm is expected to stay offshore but it could be a close encounter for the east coast of the united states. Federal officials are warning residents along the eastern seaboard to be ready for possible evacuations.
The Department of Environmental Quality is overseeing a sewer waste clean up operation on one of Waveland's busiest streets. City leaders say crews are on Waveland Avenue cleaning up waste water that over flowed into ditches and yards over the weekend. As Al Showers reports, Waveland leaders say mother nature is to blame for the mess.
Associated Press - August 31, 2010 5:54 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi tax collections were above expectations in August, for the second month in a row.
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour and a bipartisan group of Mississippi lawmakers are considering saving, rather than spending, one of the two pots of federal stimulus money Congress recently approved.
For Southern Miss's centennial year the annual homecoming parade is returning to it's roots as a downtown Hattiesburg attraction.
As students head back to school, educators nationwide are implementing controversial school reform wrought by Arne Duncan, possibly the most powerful education secretary ever.
Associated Press - August 31, 2010 3:04 PM ET MYRTLE GROVE, La. (AP) - Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says it will be Friday or later before efforts can resume to remove the failed blowout...
An athletics complex that has served as a haven for youth has shut down, leaving employees and parents wondering why.
Associated Press - August 31, 2010 1:04 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - It's two days until the opening kickoff, and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier still isn't ready to name his starting...
Two more programs are on the chopping block at USM Gulf Park. USM officials just announced that the Engineering Technology Master's program is being axed, as well as the Specialist Degree in Education.
USM announced plans to cope with an expected $15 million budget shortfall next year, a plan that includes faculty layoffs and program closures. At USM Gulf Park, six teaching positions and five degree programs are slated to either be eliminated or consolidated to Hattiesburg. Trang Pham-Bui talked to several USM students as news of the budget cuts came down Monday.
Associated Press - August 31, 2010 9:34 AM ET GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - With the help of Mississippi first lady Marsha Barbour, four endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles have been released back...
Scientists who discovered a gene mutation that causes a fatal neurodegenerative disease in American Staffordshire (Pit Bull) terriers say the same gene may also be linked to a similar, rare fatal brain disease in humans.
Whether you're buying online or not, with these tips, the web is your superhighway to big savings.
A two vehicle head-on collision in Jones County sent two people to the hospital Monday evening in serious condition.
The pregnant woman shot a school bus stop last Friday has been upgraded to good condition at UMC.
U-S-M is starting the school year off with major cuts to faculty and programs in an effort to make up millions in expected losses.
Lamar County is one of the fastest growing areas of the state and the school district is no exception. Enrollment this year is currently over nine thousand students.
Spice, K2, Mojo, Incense whatever you want to call it, the substance is now in the process of being banned state wide.
Health officials say one new case of West Nile virus has been reported in Mississippi, bringing the state total to four so far this year.
A Washington state teacher who won his job back after a conviction for inappropriately touching girls called in sick Monday as some parents demonstrated outside school.
Compare the aerial view of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, now and five years ago today. Skycopter 3 pilot Coyt Bailey recently duplicated his flight from August 30, 2005, and gave us his observations.
USM is dropping over 20 programs and not renewing the contracts of 29 professors, 11 of which were tenured, in an attempt to trim the university budget. Ten of these individuals serve in the College of Arts & Letters.
Type 2 diabetes can cause serious complications, including heart disease, kidney damage and vision loss. Learn how to prevent these problems.
Associated Press - August 30, 2010 1:04 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's and Mississippi's governors are telling federal officials the Gulf coast states deserve more from oil wells drilled...
Associated Press - August 30, 2010 12:44 PM ET BP PLC says high seas on the Gulf of Mexico have delayed operations to raise the piece of equipment from the seabed that failed to prevent the...
Biloxi parents, don't worry. Your child most likely is at school today. The Biloxi School District's Connect-Ed automated phone system accidentally called out to all 1,141 junior high students' homes this morning saying their child was absent.
Associated Press - August 30, 2010 11:04 AM ET OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - The trial for an FBI agent charged with lying about ownership of an Oxford building has been rescheduled for Nov. 8 in U.S.
Associated Press - August 30, 2010 9:44 AM ET SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Hurricane Earl is lashing the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and strong winds today.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina's wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina many families moved from New Orleans to start a new life here in Jackson.
Associated Press - August 29, 2010 6:54 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - The administrator of the new claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill says most of the individual claims reviewed in...
Jones County Emergency Management recognized several volunteer firefighters for their efforts in helping to find a missing Ovett woman earlier this summer.
Associated Press - August 29, 2010 9:04 AM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - From New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to the Mississippi coast, people hit hard by Hurricane Katrina are paying homage to those...
A Lamar County toddler is in the hospital, recovering from injuries after being attacked and bitten by a dog Friday afternoon.
A dead body was found in a Hattiesburg gas station bathroom at approximately 3:20 Friday afternoon.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan sat down with local teachers to share an important message.
This year, Kathy Johnson, a nursing instructor at Southern Miss is teaching the Children's Center staff members what to do in case a baby chokes or has another type of medical emergency.
Associated Press - August 27, 2010 2:24 PM ET VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) - President Barack Obama will head to New Orleans following his Marthas' Vineyard vacation to reaffirm his commitment to...
We asked you to share your memories of Katrina, and here is what some of you said.
Jasper Co. (WDAM)- 11 people including at least two from Jasper county have been arrested by federal drug enforcement agency's, in which truck-loads of marijuana was brought to Mississippi from Texas.
KiOR has selected Columbus, Miss., and Newton, Miss., for its first facilities and has determined another facility will be located in southwest Mississippi.
A few days after Katrina plowed through Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced that Jones County was the second hardest hit area in the state.
R3SM will commemorate the fifth year anniversary of Katrina with a Katrina day of service.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety "Drunk Driving, Over the Limit, Under Arrest program is in full swing.
If you're like millions of Americans, the recent news of a massive egg recall due to salmonella contamination has probably made you refrain from ordering "sunny side up" the past couple of weeks.
Associated Press - September 1, 2010 2:24 PM ET COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - A 41-year-old Columbus man has been charged with murder in the death of a woman identified as his former...
Associated Press - August 30, 2010 5:54 AM ET GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Greenville police are investigating the shooting death of a 32-year-old man.
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