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CASA, or “court-appointed special advocate,” trains and supports volunteers to champion the needs of abused and neglected ...
The program provides 1.5 million pounds of food monthly to 430 agencies. 150 thousand people are fed monthly, and 1.8 million ...
In early July 2025, claims circulated online that a man named Eric Brown Jr. hacked into the human services system of Hinds County, Mississippi, and approved all pending food stamp applications. The ...
The 37-foot-tall granite memorial, which features a Confederate soldier at its peak, was erected in 1907 by the Brandon Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the ...
Mama Mosie Burks, a legendary gospel singer and lead vocalist in the Mississippi Mass Choir, has died at age 92.
WLBT’s Digital Desk Host Cara Shirley breaks down the top three stories on “Top 3 From WLBT” for Tuesday morning.Capital ...
Leading the appointments as the city’s interim chief administrative officer, Pieter Teeuwissen, a former Hinds County Court ...
That’s when the agent said Dennis forced her to undress at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her, WLBT reported, citing the ...
Jackson saw an approximate 40% drop in homicides during the first half of 2025 — January through June — compared to the same ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a ...
An 18-year-old man was shot and killed at a gender reveal party at Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks officials emphasized the isolated ...
The court referred to the Mississippi executions of David Cox in 2021 and Thomas Loden in 2022. The Fifth Circuit judges also said at this point, the execution would be the only just conclusion to ...