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Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 1:39 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Volunteers joined the cadets Friday to clear away overgrowth from an area that will soon be an ADA-accessible public trail.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 9:05 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A Laurel man is in custody after a drug raid Thursday morning.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 2:23 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington and WDAM Staff
She will face sentencing on Friday, Sept. 23.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 11:43 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington and WDAM Staff
Founder of non-profit in Purvis relapsed from jail for rehabilitation facility.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 8:47 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Students in the Covington County alternative school will be going to class in a new school building Thursday.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 8:42 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Mississippi’s state auditor Shad White spoke Wednesday in Covington County and had some new comments about the ongoing civil lawsuit to recover money from the state welfare scandal.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 9:11 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A community health event celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month is scheduled for this weekend in Hattiesburg.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 9:06 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Work on a project to improve security at the Collins Police Department has passed the halfway point.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 11:28 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Physicians from across Mississippi gathered together with medical school students at William Carey University for a first-ever conference on rural healthcare.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 11:07 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby will soon honor the first female member of the armed forces from Mississippi killed in action in the War on Terror.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 7:42 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Southern Miss football players met one-on-one with some of their youngest and most devoted fans on Friday, Sept. 16.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 6:55 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The staff at the Laurel Salvation Army got both manpower and star power Friday to help them upgrade part of its headquarters on North 13th Avenue.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 9:31 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum is hosting a memorial service in Jackson for “Dutch Fliers,” men from the Netherlands who trained for combat in Mississippi during World War II.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 7:32 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Partners for the Arts, a non-profit that supports art programming at the University of Southern Mississippi, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a grand, royal gala.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 7:54 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Representatives with Dixie Electric Power Association are, once again, asking dove hunters not to shoot around power and fiber optic lines.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 3:12 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Kalyn Jones’ charges were upgraded in Jones County Justice Court to felony malicious mischief and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 1:31 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Hattiesburg police officers and Hattiesburg firefighters took the field at William Carey University Saturday night, in a friendly competition to raise money for a local non-profit.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2022 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
More than 80 cars were on a show at the third annual "Cruisin' the Pearl" in Columbia Saturday.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 7:04 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Property owners in Covington County will see a tax increase if the proposed FY23 budget is adopted by county supervisors next week.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Annie B’s Family Restaurant honored veterans, first responders and healthcare workers for Patriot Day on Friday, Sept. 9, by serving them a free lunch.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 8:47 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Covington County authorities are hoping a $500 cash reward will help them catch the thieves who are stealing road signs in the county.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 8:41 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Collins Rotary Club is looking for volunteers who want to serve their community.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 1:26 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The event, at the Collins Civic Center, was hosted by the Jackson Flight Standards District Office of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2022 at 9:06 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The City of Columbia hosted the first-ever festival Saturday focusing on lots of good eats and plenty of live tunes.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2022 at 7:40 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A Covington County church is raising awareness of Sickle Cell Disease.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The historic McDonald’s Store is now known as “Hot Coffee Junction.”
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 7:36 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A new exhibit at Hattiesburg’s Pocket Museum is “spicing” things up for the month of September.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 2:03 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Covington County Hospital will soon employ mental health counselors as a result of a recent grant awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 8:30 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Laurel Police Department is collecting water for Jackson residents, to help them during that city’s water crisis.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 7:00 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Several groups and organizations in the Pine Belt are collecting water to send to Jackson to help residents get through that city’s water crisis.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:21 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A portion of Old Highway 49 in Covington County is back open tonight, after it was closed for a few hours Tuesday so a county crew could replace a culvert.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:15 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
SkyWest Airlines has done an about face and will continue offering flights at Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport, at least for the time being.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2022 at 8:10 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Dozens of bicycle racers from several states rode through the streets of downtown Hattiesburg Saturday, in a first-ever championship event for the area.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2022 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Farmers from across Mississippi gathered for a special seminar in Hattiesburg Saturday.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 7:17 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Christmas is four months away, but in Columbia, it’s already looking like the holiday season.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 12:06 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A ribbon was cut Friday morning to officially open the office.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 9:09 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A Hattiesburg woman was the lucky winner of a new car, given away Thursday night during an annual raffle to benefit the Forrest General Healthcare Foundation.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 5:00 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A Laurel animal control officer, who usually rounds up stray dogs and cats, spent some time this week capturing a four-foot-long alligator that made an unwelcome visit to a city restaurant.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 10:02 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Laurel’s Animal Rescue League needs some cat food.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 10:35 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Hunters are getting ready for dove season in Mississippi and local power cooperatives are reminding them about safe shooting around power and fiber lines.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2022 at 11:24 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Some Hub City volunteers are helping a new Mobile Street business get ready to open its doors.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2022 at 11:15 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
People interested in partnering with Habitat for Humanity to get a home of their own participated in a special seminar Saturday morning.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 9:11 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The University of Southern Mississippi is welcoming new students to its Hattiesburg campus this weekend.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 9:07 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A century-old building in Mount Olive will be home to a new museum honoring the late country music legend and Mount Olive native Billy Ray Reynolds.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 10:05 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Former University of Southern Mississippi baseball players remember Corky Palmer, a retired USM baseball coach, after he passed away on Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2022 at 6:31 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Sarah Catherine Wallace, of Hattiesburg, has breast cancer and lost her hair due to her chemotherapy treatments.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2022 at 6:43 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Two Pine Belt churches hosted big back-to-school events Saturday.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 8:34 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Nearly 400 students at William Carey University received degrees Friday during summer commencement at the Hattiesburg campus.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 2:51 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Covington County School District welcomed back about 2,600 for the first day of attendance.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 1:04 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Wednesday was the first day back to school for students in the Wayne County School District.
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