COLLEGE STATION, Texas (WCBI/Ole Miss Athletics) – It was a wild Saturday in College Station, Texas, where No. 5 Ole Miss and No. 11 Texas A&M combined for 13 runs and 27 hits as the Rebels emerged with a 7-6 win in the Southeastern Conference rubber match. Head coach Mike Bianco’s squad improved to 22-3 on the season and 4-2…
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – Hunter Stovall’s two-run single in the top half of the 15th inning lifted Mississippi State baseball to a 3-1 victory over No. 25 Missouri in Southeastern Conference baseball action Saturday afternoon at Taylor Stadium. When the teams first met as SEC rivals, MSU beat Missouri 2-1 in 17 innings in the 2013 SEC tournament. This…
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – A spot in the Final Four in Columbus, Ohio, is on the line Sunday as Mississippi State takes on UCLA in the Kansas City Regional Final. The first meeting between to the two programs tips at 6:30 p.m. from the Sprint Center, with ESPN carrying the contest nationally. The game can also be streamed on…
TONIGHT: Clouds remain in place as temperatures stay in the upper 50s. Winds will begin to shift from being southwesterly to being from the northwest. A light shower may develop somewhere over the region. SUNDAY: A stray shower is possible, but most stay dry and mostly cloudy. Highs will be cooler, only in the low 70s. Overnight lows will be in the…
Currently sixty spots are available, 40 at Sudduth Elementary and 20 at West Elementary.
The W is hosting its Spring Homecoming, and alums from across the country are back in town.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WCBI/MSU Athletics) – Mississippi State reached elite status again Friday night. Behind an NCAA Tournament-tying record performance from Teaira McCowan, the top-seeded Mississippi State women’s basketball team punched a ticket to the Elite Eight for a second-straight season with a 71-57 win against No. 4 seed NC State in a semifinal round game of the Kansas City Regional…
MHP is continuing to investigate this accident.
The soldiers will spend a few weeks at Fort Bliss Texas, then on to Fort Irwin California before heading to Kuwait.
Jails are designed to keep people behind bars, but fires and natural disasters can make it complicated to keep prisoners safe.
Finney drives anywhere from 100 to 130 miles a day.
AMORY, MISS. (WCBI) – Governor Phil Bryant says he is confident Cindy Hyde- Smith will champion conservative values in the U S Senate. On Wednesday, Governor Bryant announced that he has appointed Mississippi’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce to the U S Senate. Cindy Hyde- Smith will replace U S Senator Thad Cochran, who announced recently that he is retiring on…
AMORY, MISS. (WCBI) – Mississippi’s Secretary of State says soldiers can exercise their right to vote, even when deployed. Delbert Hosemann said Mississippi is leading the way when it comes to absentee voting by email. Hosemann’s office has produced a card, giving soldiers information for step by step instructions for absentee voting. The secretary of state said it’s important that those…
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Temperatures push up well into the 70s on Saturday.
The highway was expected to reopen at 5 p.m.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The first-ever African American has been named to oversee Mississippi’s eight public universities. Al Rankin Jr., named Commissioner of Higher EducationSource: IHL Communications The state College Board announced Friday that Alfred Rankins Jr. will become higher education commissioner July 1 when Glenn Boyce retires. Rankins is the current president of Alcorn State University. As commissioner,…
JACKSON, Miss. (WCBI)- Mississippi’s unemployment rate fell in February, to 4.5 percent, the lowest level of unemployment ever recorded in the state. These are the latest job figures, from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. Last February, the jobless rate in the state, was 5.4 percent. The number of jobs in our state, increased by 14,300. Since February 2017, the…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama’s unemployment rate is holding steady at 3.7 percent. The governor’s office says the state’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted jobless rate for February was unchanged from the January number. The rate represents 80,865 unemployed people in the state, while nearly 2.1 million are working. The state’s unemployment rate is well below last February’s rate of 5.3 percent,…
