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Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 12:29 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Floyd Shankerman's family has owned the same store for more than 100 years in Clarksdale - and he still goes to work 6 days a week!
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Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 7:58 AM CDT
|By Brandy McGill
Bethal Miles, a Chicago native and a junior at the University of Southern Miss, is using his large social media to collect bottled water.
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Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 1:19 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The company plans to share more details about the initiatives as it rolls each one out in the coming weeks.
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Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 11:59 AM CDT
|By Carmen Poe
Activities will be at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum, the Mississippi Children’s Museum, and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 3:09 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
Bottled water donations and volunteer drive-thru distributions came from ordinary people, schools, churches, businesses, and other organizations.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:20 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole and Quentin Smith
The mayor and governor continue to swap words amid Jackson’s ongoing water crisis.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2022 at 1:36 PM CDT
|By Jordon Gray
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has issued an Endangered/Missing Child Alert for a Pontotoc County teen.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 2:45 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
After a 30-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jackson area Jehovah’s witnesses have begun to resume their trademark door-to-door ministry.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
132 perfect scores were earned on the 2022 state assessments by students last spring and the district is marking the accomplishment by placing Aced It! signs in students’ yards Friday.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 10:50 AM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
The city said the plant’s water pressure has increased to 78 PSI. The level was 40 PSI on Wednesday.
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Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 1:39 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
Crews are installing an emergency rental pump at the plant.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 9:34 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Water, waterless toothbrushes, and dry shampoo will be on hand for anyone affected by Jackson’s water crisis.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:46 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The distribution will be in the parking lot of the Walmart location at 2711 Greenway Drive in Jackson.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2022 at 2:09 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Vicksburg Police Chief Penny Jones and Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace were among the panelists in attendance.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 12:53 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
It’s appropriately called KixCon.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 1:32 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
Twix offers comfort and care to others with Mississippi Therapy Animals.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 1:07 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
Damien Cavicchi and Mary Sanders Ferriss Cavicchi are local Jackson business owners.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 2:21 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The annual event runs through July 31.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2022 at 12:13 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
The department’s annual Youth Citizens Police Academy exists to expose young people in Jackson to all that is good in life.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2022 at 10:41 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The event included health screenings and education, food and prizes.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 10:45 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The Neshoba County Fair is officially underway in Philadelphia.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 11:46 AM CDT
|By Ashley Garner
Click here to purchase tickets.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2022 at 8:02 AM CDT
|By Carmen Poe
Third-grader Tramaine Davis (T.J.) and Obama Magnet scholar is Mississippi’s 2022 Doodle for Google National Art Contest winner.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 2:55 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The city said it plans to have a distribution site available every day until the boil water notices are lifted.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2022 at 11:32 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Here are the biggest celebrations around town.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2022 at 2:39 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The purpose is to bring the city together to have fun and celebrate each other as well as the town’s rich history.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2022 at 12:04 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
City officials are asking everyone in the city, surface and well water customers, to boil their water until further notice.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 9:49 AM CDT
|By Ashley Garner
The fair runs from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 10:55 AM CDT
|By Julia Bingel
A 25-year-old Cleveland man is charged with theft.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 10:18 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Over 50,000 homes and businesses on the city’s surface water or well system are included in the advisory.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 9:33 AM CDT
|By Ashley Garner
Attorneys and paralegals are volunteering to prepare wills and advanced healthcare directives for first responders and their spouses.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2022 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The grassroots groups hope to encourage leaders to honor Juneteenth by working together to handle the county’s business.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 1:18 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Festivities kick off Friday in Jackson to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. and championing the ongoing struggle for equity and justice.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 6:02 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
They’re looking to hire people for several jobs including bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, teachers, and substitutes.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2022 at 5:16 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
This year’s home is in The Village at Madison.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
If you love shrimp and pasta, check out this Roasted Shrimp and Orzo dish by Julie Levanway on Today at 11.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2022 at 8:45 AM CDT
|By WLOX Staff
Anyone can fish in all public waters in Mississippi even without a sport fishing license.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2022 at 1:40 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The project improves public transportation and provides more flexibility, frequency, and coverage to areas in the city that are currently under-served.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2022 at 11:13 AM CDT
|By Carmen Poe
The tour meets in the parking lot of the Kroger grocery store located at 6745 South Siwell Road in Byram, leaving at 8 a.m.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 12:58 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
Here are some camps happening around the Jackson metro area.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 10:15 AM CDT
|By Patrice Clark
Health officials say now is not the time for parents or guardians to take COVID-19 lightly.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 8:35 AM CDT
|By Ashley Garner
Several companies including JTran, Tripp Transportation, and Drive Improvement Agency need CDL transit drivers.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 11:21 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff and Roslyn Anderson
The state said this will improve access to standard and medical formulas by allowing WIC participants to select from a greater variety of formulas.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 2:25 PM CDT
|By Ashley Garner
Mississippi Blood Services is urging donors to help build up its supply now.
Updated: May. 28, 2022 at 1:26 PM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
The free event is on June 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the Penthouse of Hilton Jackson, located at 1001 East County Line Road.
Updated: May. 28, 2022 at 11:07 AM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
Dozens of residents and even their nurses and personal caregivers took to the dance floor with all their grooves and funk.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 9:24 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
After 21 years at WLBT, Cheryl Lasseter said her final goodbye on the morning show with Wilson Stribling, Barbie Basset and Branden Walker Friday.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 11:40 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff
FestivalSouth, the seventh annual dog-friendly Dog Days 5K event will be on June 11th at Kamper Park in Hattiesburg.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 6:31 AM CDT
|By WLBT.com Staff and Christopher Fields
Internationally-known artists were scheduled to take the stage alongside homegrown talent on May 27-29.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 2:11 PM CDT
|By C.J. LeMaster
“This will improve the service for some of our residents who have suffered inequitably at the hands of our failing water system,” the mayor said.