WATCH: WCBI’s Robby Donoho checks in from Dallas as Mississippi State is preparing for the rematch of epic proportions on Sunday in the National Championship game of the 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. Categories: College Sports, Local Sports
LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI)- In an effort to promote safer driving, MHP conducted a 5 hour enforcement detail in Lowndes County Friday evening. The operation involved 20 area Troopers to man multiple license checkpoints on some of Lowndes County’s major highways. Enforcement efforts yielded approximately 190 traffic citations along with 6 DUI arrests. MHP also made 13 other arrests ranging from misdemeanor…
DALLAS, Texas (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – She did it again. Morgan William’s jumper as time expired lifted Mississippi State to a stunning 66-64 overtime win against top-ranked Connecticut in the semifinal round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament played before a crowd of 19,202 at American Airlines Arena. MSU (34-4) will face Southeastern Conference rival South Carolina (32-4) at 5 p.m….
Mississippi State women’s basketball is heading to it’s first ever national championship with it’s 66-64 overtime win over the UConn Huskies.
Harrisburg Baptist Church’s Zamar Student Choir gives public a chance to help them go to Chicago to perform music with a message for thousands of people.
MSU preps for “Big Event” community service day
Columbus students take theater-goers “Into the Woods”
MSMS History teacher Chuck Yarborough is a finalist for statewide Teacher of the Year honor
Kennedy, ALA. (WCBI)- A west Alabama town has a new face in office. Kennedy has nominated its new mayor. It’s been about three weeks since the passing of Ms. Rose- Kennedy, Alabama’s former mayor. This past Monday, the city council nominated its new mayor. She’s a lifetime resident of Kennedy and the first female African American mayor. ” “I’m humbled and…
DALLAS, Texas (WCBI) — It was a send-off fit for a hero. Hundreds of Mississippi State fans lined the exit at Dallas area’s Hilton Anatole as the Bulldogs boarded their bus for American Airlines Center on Friday evening. MSU takes aim at history as they take on No. 1 UConn in the night-cap of the 2017 Women’s Final Four in…
DALLAS, Texas (WCBI) — A promise is worth keeping, and this promise was twenty years in the making. Long-time team bus driver, Everett Kennard, drove the Mississippi State men’s basketball team to New Jersey for the 1996 Final Four. While he was there, Sharon Fanning-Otis had just completed her first season as head coach of the Mississippi State women’s basketball…
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WCBI-TV) – A fight to use the courts to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi flag may be over. A federal appeals court in New Orleans tossed out a lawsuit. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday that it would not revive a lawsuit rejected by a lower court. This was an ongoing appeal…
WEBSTER COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI)-An Attala County man wanted in four counties for a theft ring is now in jail. Daniel Black was in arrested in Greenwood on Thursday. He’s accused of breaking into homes and businesses in several counties. “With so many burglaries it just seems it’s a desperate act, it was just break-in, break-in, break-in,” said Landon Griffin,…
Both the Bulldogs and the Huskies have been busy all week preparing for the big matchup, and WCBI Sports Director Robby Donoho has been with the teams since day one.
WATCH: Aundrea Self speaks to some of the MSU Spirit Teams ahead of Friday night’s big game.
WATCH: Aundrea talks to four friends who’ve followed the Lady Dawgs to the Final Four.
WATCH: Aundrea Self speaks with the moms of Morgan William and Breanna Richardson.
WATCH: Aundrea Self speaks to “Team Mom” Holly Schaefer.
The day of reckoning has arrived. Say what you will about the match-up, the records, the seeds, whatever. Throw that all out the window. When Mississippi State and UConn step on the floor here at American Airlines Center Friday night, it will be about 40 minutes of basketball. That’s it. Seems simple, yet of course there is much more to…
Columbus police arrest a car burglary suspect.
Suspect In Custody But Not Charged
Less than twenty-four hours until Mississippi State tips off the biggest game in the women’s basketball program’s history, looking to take down the four-time defending national champion UConn Huskies.
Two Hurt In Gunfire
MSU Alums Bringing Hometown Feel to Final 4 Stand in Dallas