WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says the U.S. service member killed in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan was a soldier from California. In a statement, the Pentagon identified the soldier as Cpl. Joseph Maciel of South Gate, California. He died Saturday in Tarin Kowt District, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Maciel was assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry…
For the first time ever, the Redhawks will field a varsity football team for a complete season.
“Being as close as we were, I think that’s going to motivate them to get over the hump and get back.”
Harrison County Deputy Chief Coroner Brian Switzer says the victim is 30-year old Tommie Berry.
The heat leaves many first responders trying to find ways to stay cool while doing their jobs.
Winston County Fire Coordinator Jody Garrad says it happened around 9 Saturday night.
AMITYVILLE, N.Y. — Three people, including a father and a son, were killed Sunday in a car wreck in suburban New York. The crash killed the 27-year-old Alex Demetrius and the driver and a passenger in the other car: 65-year-old Joseph Cloonan and his 34-year-old son, John Cloonan, who both lived on Staten Island. Suffolk County police say Demetrius, of…
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Authorities in Virginia say at least one person was killed in a residential structure after a helicopter crashed into it. The impact of the crash caused a fire in the townhomes in Williamsburg, CBS Richmond affiliate WTVR reports. Virginia State Police confirmed the fatality in a statement Sunday evening. Virginia State Police and the Williamsburg Police Department…
In Annapolis, Maryland, services were held this weekend for three of the five victims of the deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper. Friends and family paid their respects to Rebecca Smith and Gerald Fishman. And at a memorial Saturday, Wendi Winters was remembered as a passionate reporter and a hero for her actions on that terrible day. Winters is…
Lowndes County Chief Deputy Marc Miley says 16-year old Donavan James Prather has been found and is safe.
TONIGHT: Can’t rule out some patchy fog overnight tonight as temperatures fall into the low 70s and upper 60s. We’ll call it partly cloudy but some spots still could see a stray shower by morning. MONDAY – TUESDAY: Scattered to numerous showers and storms continue to be expected as a boundary stays draped across our area. Look for temperatures to stay in…
The Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating the wreck.
A Virginia bookstore owner called the police on a woman who was yelling at former White House strategist Steve Bannon inside his establishment over the weekend, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. Bannon joins a growing list of Trump associates or staffers who have been confronted in public. Nick Cooke, owner of Black Swan Books in Richmond, told the Virginia newspaper that…
This satellite image shows Tropical Storm Beryl on Sunday, July 8, 2018. NOAA SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gusty winds began to hit the eastern Caribbean on Sunday as Tropical Storm Beryl advanced rapidly toward a region struggling to recover from last year’s deadly hurricanes. The government of Dominica said it would shut down its water system and Puerto…
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: July 8th, 1950, 68 years ago today … the day President Harry S. Truman named General Douglas MacArthur commander of U.S. and Allied Forces in Korea. Communist North Korea had attacked the South just a few weeks before. Within months of taking command, MacArthur – a World War II hero –…
Folk wisdom suggests that OPPOSITES ATTRACT, and sometimes they do. But our relationships with others aren’t always so predictable. Our Cover Story is all about personality, and it’s reported by Faith Salie: When Bryan Baecker first laid eyes on Randi Johns in Sacramento, California, two years ago, it was love at first sight. “I was like, who is that? I’d…
If July the 4th represents the birth of our country, another event in the same month speaks to something else: a time when our nation was put to the test during the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. Mark Strassmann has the story of some Civil War era-trees standing witness: Gettysburg … America’s Armageddon. In July 1863, two great armies, the…
*District games CLASS 3A | REGION 2 HEAD COACH: Brad Embry Aug 17 Europa Home Aug 24 Coffeeville Home Aug 31 J.Z. George Away Sept 7 Bruce Away Sept 14 Calhoun City Home Sept 21 Winona Home Sept 28 Holly Springs Away Oct 5 Palmer Home Oct 12 Coahoma Agricultural Away Oct 19 Independence Home Oct 26 North Panola Away…
In the emergency room of West Point’s North Mississippi Medical Center, there was a family reunion.
Scott says they were relentless in the search effort because they wanted to make sure Victoria was found safely.
Produced by Chris O’Connell and Jonathan Leach A glamorous seductress with a love for furs made an error while driving through Russia. It seems she forgot to hide the body of her alleged victim — whom she had in the front seat of her rental car. The mistake, which was caught on traffic cameras, would eventually put her in the…
Davis who played quarter back for Carver says the school had great athletic teams.
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) -For most parents, it’s not time to send the kids “back to class” just yet, but some students are getting a head start. It’s move-in day for a group of freshman at Mississippi State, participating in “College Ready.” It’s a program that lets students move in and start before the official start of the fall semester. A…
Jackson County Sheriff’s Dept. via WLOX OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — An inmate has been captured in Mississippi, two days after escaping from a state prison. The Mississippi Department of Corrections says 47-year-old Michael F. Wilson, known as “Pretty Boy Floyd,” was captured Saturday evening in the coastal city of Ocean Springs. MDOC Investigator Sean Smith says he was caught in…