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Updated: 3 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
Slade Wilks had three hits and drove in three runs and Gabe Montenegro added two singles and two RBI to lead No. 17 Southern Miss to a 9-4 victory over Middle Tennessee Thursday night at Reese Smith Jr. Field to clinch the 2022 Conference USA regular season title.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Charles Herrington
The 2022 school year is winding down, but some children in the Pine Belt are still getting some last-minute opportunities for interesting field trips.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
Just a few weeks since taking the MACCC Championship wearing the gold pants and jerseys, the Wildcats took the field in them once again Thursday and dominated reigning National Champion and No. 4 ranked LSU Eunice 11-4 to capture the Region 23 Championship.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Taylor Curet
A pair of Pine Belt area softball teams forced all-deciding Game 3’s on Thursday afternoon at the Southern Miss Softball Complex.
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Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby is preparing to host its annual Memorial Day ceremony next week.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Quentin Smith
We are at a historic high here in Mississippi, with gas at roughly $4.17 a gallon.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Mia Monet
Mason and Oak Park elementary schools held a conjoined field day to unite both schools.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
The Jones County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the whereabouts of Ross Mann, 30, who has been reported as a missing person on Thursday.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By Charles Herrington
The opening ceremony of the Trail of Honor will take place Saturday at 9 a.m.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By Marissa McCardell
The Jones County Sheriff’s Department, along with other agencies, was back at the Leaf River and Highway 590 bridge.
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Updated: 7 hours ago
|By Eddie Robertson
The Veterans Memorial Museum in Laurel was awarded a $250,000 grant to help with building and improvement plans for the facility.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
Jamie Antwuan Gammage, 23, of Hattiesburg, has an active arrest warrant for commercial burglary.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Marissa McCardell
Merit Health Wesley offers new Pathways Program
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
The Forrest County Sheriff's Office is warning of a telephone scam, telling callers of a missed court date and subsequent fine.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
Four USM professors received the initial grants from the university's "STEM Mentoring and Equity for Women" program.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
On this week's episode of Tim's Two Cents, we sit down with WDAM 7 sports anchor/reporter Kendall Duncan.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
A restroom was damaged, and a basketball court was covered in graffiti.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
Union man to be sentenced in federal court in September after pleading guilty Thursday to sexual trafficking of a minor.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Renaldo Hopkins
HPD spokesman says a gold 2004 Jeep Wrangler was stolen from the 400 block of 4th Avenue overnight on May 14.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
A 'boil-water' advisory was lifted Wednesday for the Mt. Gilead/Improve Water Association.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
Search operations by the Jones County Sheriff’s Department on the Leaf River have been suspended after several hours of searching.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Courtney Ann Jackson
Eddie Maloney was president of Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City Appliance Centers, which includes 13 locations throughout Mississippi.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 11:39 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
In the end, the mountain was too high for William Carey to climb successfully.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 11:29 PM CDT
|By Taylor Curet
Sumrall extended its season to Saturday with a come-from-behind victory over Kosciusko at the Southern Miss Sports Complex.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 11:10 PM CDT
|By Will Polston
On Tuesday, May 24, the vote on the bond will take place.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:19 PM CDT
|By Courtney Ann Jackson
Mississippi and our capital city are in constant conversations on how to handle the crime wave. Wednesday, the Governor announced new leaders on the public safety team that he says will contribute to changing the trends.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:19 PM CDT
|By Jasmine Lotts
Officials met Wednesday to approve ZenLab USA Cannabis Processing to use an existing facility off of Highway 90.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:02 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
More than 80 students will graduate Saturday from the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 9:27 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
The Forrest County Sheriff’s Office needs your assistance identifying an individual in an ongoing commercial burglary investigation off of Monroe Road in the Glendale community.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 8:59 PM CDT
|By WLOX Staff
Joseph Heard, the step-father of a two-year-old boy who died two days after Christmas was in court for a preliminary hearing.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 8:06 PM CDT
|By Caroline Wood
This week marks Police Week, and Pine Belt agencies took time to honor officers who died protecting and serving.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 7:36 PM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell
The free screening event will be from 10 a.m. to noon.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 7:29 PM CDT
|By Mia Monet
Petal man given $100,000 bond.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 6:34 PM CDT
|By Karrie Leggett-Brown
Ritchie Yang is one of only two Mississippi students selected as a U.S. Presidential Scholar.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 5:08 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Candy McLaurin of Hattiesburg is being sought on an active warrant for identity theft.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:16 PM CDT
|By WLOX Staff
Cliff Kirkland, 67, is guilty of touching three children spanning a five-year period, according to the District Attorney’s office.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:01 PM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell and WDAM Staff
According to the Jones County Sheriff’s Department, Breazeale faces one count of first-degree murder.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 3:23 PM CDT
|By Allen Brewer
Judge Welby served two terms on the 12th Circuit Court of Forrest and Perry counties from 1975 to 1983.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 2:26 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Kelli Ruth was approved as the new assistant principal at Petal Primary School.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:58 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
In a press conference Wednesday, Gov. Tate Reeves announced “key hirings” to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety’s Leadership Team that, he hopes, will help quell violence across Mississippi.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:28 AM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell and WDAM Staff
Jason Dewayne "Frosty" Holmes, 38, of Ovett, was arrested during a multi-agency raid in Perry County Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 12:07 AM CDT
|By Taylor Curet
Southern Miss head baseball coach Scott Berry discusses USM’s series win over UTSA, how the Golden Eagles are growing through adversity and the chemistry Reece Ewing brings back to the lineup in his return.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 11:56 PM CDT
|By Taylor Curet
Stringer’s arrival to Class 2A this season has been loud. Jackson Parker turned up the decibels even more in Tuesday’s South State series-clinching win over Pisgah.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 10:48 PM CDT
|By Caroline Wood
Candidates running for the 4th Congressional District had the opportunity to speak with local residents Tuesday evening.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 10:38 PM CDT
|By Caroline Wood
Several city leaders gathered at the Hattiesburg Police Department Tuesday during day three of National Police Week.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 10:36 PM CDT
|By Hugh Keeton
WLOX filed a freedom of information act to learn what exactly happened in May 2021 when three-month old La’Mello Parker was killed in crossfire between police and his father Eric Smith.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 10:03 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Graduation at Columbia High School is scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. at Walter Payton Field.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 9:42 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Work crews will close a section of South 28th Avenue extended from Pinehills Drive to Richburg Road for a drainage repair.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Mia Monet
The school held a luncheon for its campus police officers.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 8:53 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Perry County Sheriff’s Office deputies followed up on a person who was wanted in Jones County for kidnapping and aggravated assault.