A Hattiesburg dance academy is taking students to new heights through the art of dance.

Hundreds of people visited Mount Olive on Saturday for fresh produce and great fellowship as the town hosted its second Farm and Market in the Mount.

At Petal High School’s graduation, there was triumph as students crossed the stage to begin the next chapter of their lives.

William Carey University students are preparing to cross the stage and enter the next chapter of their lives after commencement.

LeBron James and Walmart have formed a partnership aimed at improving education and reducing hunger in communities throughout the country.

Future teacher always pushed forward to overcome disability and inspire children.

A Mississippi man who has a way with words has brought home the first place prize from the 2019 County Line Music Festival.

Sheron Dunaway has been able to fully recover her speech with the help of her special friend, Precious.

The City of Laurel will look a little more patriotic after accepting a generous flag donation.

The West Marion High School Band is hoping pop music legend Barry Manilow will give them $100,000.

Tommy and Jimmy Dilwith spent their days dueling for the top spot, a competition they say has pushed them to success.

Select Hattiesburg neighborhoods to receive free smoke alarms.

A captain with the Jones County Sheriff’s Office is being recognized for her work to help children who are victims of human trafficking, physical and sexual abuse.

An 18-year-old New Orleans high school senior has been accepted into 115 colleges and has been offered more than $3.7 million in scholarships.

A local dad in Tuscaloosa is using a truck to raise awareness about autism. And the timing is just right because April is World autism awareness month.

Red Cross out helping assess storm damage.

FestivalSouth releases 2019 calendar of events.

A man waiting for his order at a Jackson Chick-Fil-A noticed a quiet act of kindness and took to social media to spread the kindness he witnessed.

The benefactors said they are not done helping this family; they plan to help Elijah get a permanent place to call home.

An emotional reunion between a National Guard soldier and his daughter had everyone in the room smiling at the DuBard School in Hattiesburg.

It was a touching scene Tuesday morning in Collins as a soldier with the Mississippi National Guard was reunited with her young son after a nine-month deployment to Kuwait.

Hattiesburg is preparing to add sidewalks along North 38th Avenue from Hardy Street north to the Longleaf Trace at West Fourth Street.

The teenagers gave the 5-year-old the gift of friendship, welcoming him and helping him go down the big ramps.

The Oscar winner imported a total of 26 bee hives to the ranch and has planted bee-friendly Magnolia trees and lavender on the property.

Hard work and countless hours of studying are paying off big time for Woodlawn’s High School valedictorian Benjamin Holmes.

Poplarville Lower Elementary School has been rewarded for its efforts to promote better health among its students, teachers and administrators.

A Facebook post from the military base wants to make Edward Stever’s 100th birthday a very special one. Stever is a World War II veteran and Fort Bragg is asking people to send him a birthday card to celebrate his major life milestone.

The small guy packing a lot of power broke two records in his weight class.

According to the fire department, every bible and cross inside the church should have been reduced to ash. They were all intact.

Best Buy presented a $20 million check to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Wednesday.

1st Lt. Kaleb Beasley recently returned to Mississippi from a deployment to the Middle East.

Fire departments in Jones County are banding together to reach out a helping hand to people impacted by the devastating tornado that ravaged Lee County, AL over the weekend.

What do you do with 20,000 pounds of potatoes? Well, if you’re Christian Services in Hattiesburg, you pass that blessing on to others.

Jani-King is a business invested in supporting the education system in a big way.

The United Way of the Pine Belt held its annual meeting and awards luncheon at South Central Place in Laurel on Thursday.

After a 5-year-old in Texas got her hair cut, her friends started calling her a boy, and she began wearing a hat to school. But her teacher’s kind gesture changed everything.

A picture of two boys from North Carolina stopping in a street to honor a U.S. flag as it was being raised at a fire station is going viral.

Two Pine Belt teens were tapped to take part in Youth Leadership Program, sponsored by Southern Pine Electric.

The South Jones High School Beta Club celebrated Valentine’s Day with some “little” sweethearts in a project called “Fall in Love With Reading.”

The luxury event took place Friday night at Temple Baptist Church on Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate people with special needs and disabilities.

The superintendent of Jefferson Davis County schools said, “If there is ever a magical solution in education, then it would be literacy.”The district is changing lives in their schools and communities after earning the award of a competitive $2 million grant.

Hattiesburg adds more streets to this spring's paving schedule.

Brees posted his letter on Instagram explaining that he took the past week to navigate his heartache and disappointment from the game.

Despite having cerebral palsy and optic nerve damage in one eye, Aaron Smith hiked 20 miles to be one badge closer to becoming an Eagle Scout.

It’s the American dream to see a vision, work and grind it out until you watch that vision come to fruition.

Officials have been working to curb juvenile crime by reaching out to those at risk, and police say no child homicides shows that outreach is having an impact.

Forrest County is opening its community shelter because of expected cold temperatures Sunday night.

Two years ago, a tornado destroyed Lashonda Johnson’s home in Petal. A nonprofit organization is now stepping in to pick up the pieces for a victim of alleged fraud.

An organization that renovates homes for wounded veterans with disabilities is hoping to start a permanent chapter in Hattiesburg.

Mississippi Power announced Tuesday the names of 19 South Mississippi teachers that will receive grant money to help fund environmental education programs.

She made the decision to retire from the elite level in order to become a college athlete. When she made this decision, she had been competing with a fractured back and two torn shoulders.

Organizers of a Marion County Veterans Day fundraising event have donated $4,000 to an organization that provides financial help to wounded Mississippi veterans.

The 9-year-old was in the backseat of the car, waiting for his grandfather to start it up and head out for some pizza, when something went wrong.

The 11th annual Doodle for Google competition is underway and the winner will walk away with a $30,000 college scholarship and $50,000 in new technology.

One video posted by a Bowling Green mom is so cute, it’s been shared more than one million times. Yeah, million.

The Hattiesburg Public School District received a $2.1 million early-education grant.

Dawn Gillis didn’t know that her own battle with breast cancer would lead her to be a fighter for other women suffering with the disease.

The city of Hattiesburg is offering a series of adult life classes teaching skills that some may not be familiar with.