Pearl River baseball captures third MACCC championship in four years
The Pearl River Community College baseball team is once again conference champions. Over the weekend, the Wildcats downed Northwest Community College to secure the program’s sixth Mississippi Association of Community…
Escaped Jackson County burglary suspect back in custody
A burglary suspect who escaped from Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies is back in custody. Sheriff John Ledbetter reports that deputies responded to a burglary in progress near a storage unit…
Third suspect arrested after deadly shooting at Utica nightclub
A third suspect has been arrested in connection to a shooting that left one dead and multiple injured at a Utica nightclub on Sunday. Anthony Brown, 48, was taken into…
Flowood man sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography
A Flowood man will spend just over eight years in prison for having child pornography. According to court documents, 26-year-old Timothy Daniel Steele, also known as Timothy Daniel Gantenbein, possessed…
Mississippi bill restricting where transgender people can use bathroom dies at capitol
Legislation designed to clarify who can use what restroom in Mississippi is dead at the capitol. In an attempt to restrict transgender people’s use of bathrooms and locker rooms in…
Mississippi lawmakers kill mobile sports betting bill
Mississippi lawmakers allowed a bill to die at Monday’s deadline that could have implemented mobile sports betting across the state. The Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act, which started as a…
Southern Miss women’s basketball coach rings bell at end of cancer treatment
Southern Miss women's basketball coach Joye Lee-McNelis has officially rung the bell. Just over one month after concluding her 20th season leading the Lady Eagles, McNelis has completed her chemotherapy…
New Orleans Pelicans swept by Oklahoma City in first round of playoffs
After finishing the regular season with the franchise’s best record since 2007-08, the New Orleans Pelicans couldn’t garner much more momentum as a vital injury to Zion Williamson crept in…
Mississippi lawmakers expected to vote on Medicaid expansion plan with work requirement
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a proposal that would expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands more people, but it includes a…
