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Updated: 56 minutes ago
|By WDAM Staff
The Hattiesburg Police Department said Edward Clark turned himself in to authorities on Wednesday.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
A wellness check turned violent on Tuesday afternoon in the Shady Grove community in Jones County.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
The vehicle was found on Monday on Dixie Pine Road.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By Charles Herrington
Keith C. Sandidge appeared before Judge Brandon Rowell at 1 p.m. in the Marion County Justice Court.
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Updated: 23 hours ago
|By WDAM Staff
LPD said the victim reported that Maximo Rosas Malpica, 53, rammed into his vehicle and then shot him once in the upper body.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 9:48 PM CDT
|By Eddie Robertson
The suspect involved in an 11-hour standoff with police over the weekend after allegedly shooting his sister is now facing additional charges.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 5:11 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Edward D. Clark, 29, of Hattiesburg, has two active warrants for DUI negligence -resulting in death/disfigurement.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 4:27 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
The Hattiesburg Police Department responded to a local hospital regarding an apparent gunshot victim.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 12:11 PM CDT
|By Renaldo Hopkins
HPD spokesperson says Sergio Covarrubias, 36, and Salvador Medrano, 60, both of California, were arrested just after 8 p.m.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 10:18 AM CDT
|By Renaldo Hopkins
51-year-old Larry L. Stuart was found guilty by a Lamar County jury this past Thursday.
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Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 6:38 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
According to WCBI, Caledonia teenager, 18-year-old Justin Robert Coggins, was charged with murder hours after graduating from Caledonia High School.
Updated: May. 21, 2022 at 10:09 AM CDT
|By Ethan Bird
A shooting on Highway 39N left a mother and her child with gunshot wounds just before midnight on Friday.
Updated: May. 21, 2022 at 9:39 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington and WDAM Staff
Keith C. Sandidge was arrested at his home early Saturday morning.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 5:40 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Three men have been arrested during an ATV chop shop investigation in the city of Byram.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 12:37 PM CDT
|By WLOX Staff
A stolen Cadillac Escalade sparked a four-month long investigation that ended this week with six felony arrests, and the confiscation of 22 pounds of meth, seven pounds of marijuana, seven firearms, and two stolen vehicles.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 7:49 PM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell
The Jones County Sheriff’s Department, along with other agencies, was back at the Leaf River and Highway 590 bridge.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 6:31 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Jamie Antwuan Gammage, 23, of Hattiesburg, has an active arrest warrant for commercial burglary.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 5:45 PM CDT
|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: May. 19, 2022 at 3:43 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
A restroom was damaged, and a basketball court was covered in graffiti.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 2:48 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Union man to be sentenced in federal court in September after pleading guilty Thursday to sexual trafficking of a minor.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 1:19 PM CDT
|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: May. 19, 2022 at 12:10 PM CDT
|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: 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 7:29 PM CDT
|By Mia Monet
Petal man given $100,000 bond.
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 4:01 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 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. 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 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.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 7:58 PM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell
Jones County sheriff's department held a press conference in regards to the capture of murder suspect Marty Breazeale.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
A Petal man has been arrested in an ongoing investigation.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 5:21 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
The Hattiesburg Police Department wants the public to know about an ongoing scam attempting to take money from people by claiming they have unpaid fines.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 2:22 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
The Laurel Police Department executed two search warrants and seized multiple controlled substances and firearms in the past seven days.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 1:28 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Makaylia Jolley, 20, is accused of “repeatedly and forcibly” throwing her her baby, Khalysie Lashay Jolley, onto the road last Thursday.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 1:18 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
LPD has received reports of citizens being approached in gas station parking lots by a couple with children trying to sell jewelry.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 10:14 AM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Davonte Harris, 22, was arrested in the 200 block of Martin Luther King Avenue around 9 p.m. Monday.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 9:13 AM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell and WDAM Staff
Jones County deputies captured 48-year-old Marty Breazeale, of Laurel, overnight after responding to a suspicious person’s complaint near Bok Homa Casino.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 2:37 PM CDT
|By Marissa McCardell and WDAM Staff
The suspect is considered dangerous and should not be approached.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 1:30 PM CDT
|By Renaldo Hopkins
Zachary James Thames, 28, was arrested Monday morning and charged with three counts of commercial burglary and one count of auto burglary.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 9:37 PM CDT
|By Howard Ballou
Andrew Prudhomme was allegedly shot multiple times by Bennard Craft at Prudhomme’s Vicksburg home. Nearly two years later, Craft has still not gone to trial.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 7:35 PM CDT
|By Courtney Ann Jackson
Around 22,000 pills were found in a recent bust in Hinds County. They looked like oxycodone but turned out to be Tylenol and fentanyl.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
Hattiesburg police are warning the public to be aware of phone scammers posing as Hattiesburg police.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
The Hattiesburg Police Department has formally charged a man involved in an apparent botched robbery.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 4:19 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff
The husband and wife were sentenced to prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff and Quentin Smith
The Claiborne County woman was accused of killing her 14-month-old stepdaughter, Jurayah Smith. Bevily is now absolved of her charge.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 10:21 PM CDT
|By Quentin Smith
Day 9 ended with the defense and prosecution calling their final witnesses to the stand.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 5:08 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff, Anthony Warren and Christopher Fields
According to police, several 911 calls came in around 2 p.m. on Thursday saying a woman had “repeatedly and forcibly” thrown her baby on the road.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 4:51 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
Jury delivers guilty verdict following a four-day trial.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 9:39 PM CDT
|By Quentin Smith
On Wednesday, the defense got to put on its case.