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|By WLBT Staff
On Saturday, Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Facebook that the state has vaccinated over 100,000 Mississippians, surpassing approximately 10 states.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 5:45 PM CST
|By KAIT Staff
Arkansas’ governor is getting the coronavirus vaccination next week.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 4:52 PM CST
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves extended Executive Order 1535 Friday. It’s now in effect until Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 5 p.m
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 1:44 PM CST
|By David Kenney
A woman witnessed two people dangling the deer over the bridge and then dropping it.
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Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 10:01 AM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Vaughn Gordon, of Lafayette, is facing criminal charges for entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 8:36 AM CST
|By Rick Portier
Mildred chose to get the vaccine because she is tired of being cooped up.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 4:58 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Several law enforcement agencies in Louisiana say they have found no threats regarding the State Capitol.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 3:36 PM CST
|By Mykal Vincent
Louisiana State Police and the United States Coast Guard are investigating a hit-and-run crash on the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge early Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 3:22 PM CST
|By Associated Press
Eddie Rispone is ending his bid to unseat the current chairman of Louisiana’s Republican Party.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 1:11 PM CST
|By Samantha Morgan
It goes against everything you think you know about concrete and the way it performs.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 7:17 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Two top state Democratic lawmakers are calling on Gov. Reeves to send the Mississippi National Guard to D.C. to help secure the inauguration.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 4:01 PM CST
|By Kevin McGill
Guy Coates, a retired Associated Press correspondent in Louisiana, has died at the age of 80. Coates’ early career included stints at The Times of Shreveport as well as KNOE TV in Monroe and KSLA TV in Shreveport.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 2:53 PM CST
|By KAIT8 Staff
An Arkansas Senate panel has advanced legislation loosening restrictions on the use of deadly force in self defense
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 1:57 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves received his COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday morning.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 6:09 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
State senator Chris McDaniel says that Mississippi’s new state flag, which was officially signed into law Monday, was “pushed down” Mississippians throats.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 3:35 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is ordering flags fly at half-staff after last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 at 4:37 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed the new “In God We Trust” Flag into law on Monday.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 at 4:26 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Both a Mississippi congressman and senator have expressed opposition to a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Trump.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2021 at 5:28 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
A Mississippi Civil Rights icon has died. Meredith Anding Jr. died Friday of Leukemia at the age of 79-years old.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2021 at 4:16 PM CST
|By Nicholas Brooks
Zeder Quinn celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2021 at 2:59 PM CST
|By KAIT Staff
Arkansas lawmakers are returning to the Capitol for a legislative session that’s been overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 9:00 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
‘Stop the Steal’ protesters were also at the Mississippi State Capitol on Wednesday.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 5:23 PM CST
|By KSLA Staff
A firefighter with the Shreveport Fire Department has died from COVID-19, the department announced Wednesday, Jan. 6.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 5:18 PM CST
|By KSLA Staff
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson spoke Tuesday, Jan. 5 to update residents on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 12:03 PM CST
|By Alex Onken
Police in south Arkansas are investigating the death of a baby. It happened on Jan. 4 in the city of Ashdown.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 8:55 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves held his first press conference in nearly two weeks regarding COVID-19 in his state.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 6:21 PM CST
|By KPLC Staff
A find on Rutherford Beach has quite a tale.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 6:11 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
A death investigation is underway after a man was found dead in Adams County.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 4:06 PM CST
Authorities have arrested a man accused of sexual assault in Natchez.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 1:36 PM CST
|By KGO/CNN
A recently retired oncologist in Arkansas forgave the medical debt of his former patients to help them through the pandemic. In all, he forgave $650,000 in medical debt for 200 patients.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2021 at 6:01 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
The New Year could be off to a good start for the state of Mississippi
Updated: Jan. 2, 2021 at 12:28 PM CST
|By WVUE Staff
The New Orleans Saints running back room will not be available to play against the Panthers on Sunday.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2020 at 2:47 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
An 18-year school teacher has taken her virtual and in-person learning challenges and put them into books to help kids learn.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2020 at 1:21 PM CST
|By Greg DeBrosse
They had to monitor his extensive sunburns and feed him by hand every two hours.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2020 at 9:42 PM CST
|By WAFB Staff
In a year with so much bad news, ‘tis the season to count our blessings.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2020 at 6:49 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Smoking will soon be legal again in the state’s prisons.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2020 at 11:42 AM CST
A Louisiana family is safe from a house fire Wednesday morning thanks to a child.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 7:26 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
With Christmas days away, Dr. Thomas Dobbs continues to urge people to skip large gatherings, including worship services, to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 5:54 PM CST
A 33-year-old Baton Rouge man was arrested and charged for producing and possessing child pornography, according to state police.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 5:41 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Christmas is already here for a local mother of five who reached out on social media for help to make the holidays brighter for her children.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 3:52 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
Seventy-eight of Mississippi’s 82 counties are now under a mask mandate, as of Governor Tate Reeves’ newest updated executive order.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 6:39 PM CST
|By WAFB Staff
A 34-year-old man from Pointe Coupee has been arrested for child pornography charges by Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Cyber Crime Unit.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 6:20 PM CST
|By Corey Howard
Natalie Desselle Reid, a successful actress who graduated from Peabody in 1985, is being remembered by Cenla.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2020 at 1:15 PM CST
|By WLBT/WTOK Staff
Lauderdale County deputies arrested a woman they say recorded herself abusing her six-month-old child.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2020 at 1:03 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff
The Missississippi Attorney General’s Office announced that three men were arrested, and another was sentenced, for child exploitation.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2020 at 4:33 PM CST
|By Javonti Thomas
A five-year-old Central Louisiana girl is fighting for her life after suffering a traumatic heart and brain injury.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2020 at 11:12 AM CST
|By Chris Finch
Police say it happened on Dec. 15.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2020 at 10:16 AM CST
|By KALB Staff
“This is exactly what we need right now," a store manager said.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 11:36 AM CST
|By WAFB Staff
A roof collapse at a Louisiana salt mine claimed the lives of two miners.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 9:05 PM CST
|By WLOX Staff
Wiggins Mayor Joel Miles died Sunday at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport after developing complications from the coronavirus.