Reggi Marion

According to Child Protection Services, 4,800 children are in state care. Most of them will be reunited with their biological family, but about 100 children have no identified adoptive family.

Officers from each precinct identified families in need.

Restaurant workers moved equipment out of the Plaza Building Saturday.

After Black Friday, it’s Small Business Saturday. Shoppers are encouraged to spend at the mom and pop shops and ditch the big box stores.

The coordinator of Toys for Tots Central Mississippi which covers Hinds, Madison and Rankin Counties told 3 on your side toy donations are slow this holiday season.

Crews with the Rankin County Emergency Operator Center and other agencies were out assessing damage after a cold front blew in overnight.

Activists gathered for a mass incarceration rally Saturday at Smith Park in Jackson.

A new playground sits behind the Boys & Girls Club of Central Mississippi.

Rain didn’t keep hundreds of people from walking in the American Cancer Society’s Making Stride Against Breast Cancer 5K Saturday at the State Capitol.

Traffic will detour onto I-55 North, to I-220 South.

About 800 people carried flowers to honor family or friends living with Alzheimer's or who have died from the disease.

Sisters in Birth will open its Jackson office Monday on Old Canton Road. The non-profit will be a pregnancy support group to teenagers and women in Hinds County.

The Clinton Bark Park officially opened Saturday on Old Vicksburg Road.

About 300 people participated in the Michael Rubenstein Memorial Kidney Walk in Fondren.

The deadline to register is October 7.

The Safe Horse Auction and Equine Fair was held Saturday at the Kirk Fordice Equine Center in Jackson.

Almost one-thousand dogs are competing in the Mississippi State Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show

Students are allowed five unexcused absences before their parents are contacted by a school attendance officer.

Thousands of people from all over the country attended the literary lawn party on the State Capitol grounds.

The Ice Cream Safari is one of Jackson Zoo's biggest fundraisers.

The first trials in the Canton Voter Fraud case are set to begin Tuesday.

People across the South Delta gathered Saturday for Media Day.

The Holmes County EMA Director says at least 13 businesses are surrounded by water from the rain.

Delta residents impacted by historic flooding attended a seminar Saturday at Hinds Community College, Vicksburg Campus.

Dollar General plans to open 975 stores across the country.

A “Let’s Go Clean Jackson” event was held Saturday at Smith Wills Stadium on Lakeland Drive. Resident want it to be held once a month.

A barricade situation in the Brandon neighborhood of Glen Arbor came to an end after almost 11 hours.

Volunteers of Big House Books packed boxes of donated books Sunday. The non-profit promotes literacy in prison.

Jackson Public Schools and the Hinds County School District will begin summer feeding programs June 3.

The Michael D. Johnson Memorial Foundation give scholarships to graduating student athletes at Jackson Public Schools.