Mississippi State’s Sierra Sacco and Raelin Chaffin get AUSL Golden Tickets

Two tickets to Starkvegas, please. The Athletes Unlimited Softball League handed out a pair of AUSL Golden Tickets to Mississippi State’s Sierra Sacco and Raelin Chaffin on Tuesday night. Sacco is on her way to an All-American season. The outfielder has a …

This Mississippi town has one of the South's best pottery scenes

Where It All Began: McCarty’s Pottery Back in 1954, long before handmade anything was having a moment, Lee and Pup McCarty opened the doors of their humble pottery studio in nearby Merigold, just minutes from Cleveland. The husband-and-wife duo turned …

Mississippi Department of Transportation holds conference to provide updates on road projects

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Nearly every highway in South Mississippi has some kind of construction work taking place. “Every time you see an orange cone, that’s a symbol of progress. That means work is being done to either make repairs to the system or make it …

Interview: Mississippi Market bringing art back to Tupelo

Mississippi Station to Air Documentary About Black Farmers During Jim Crow Era

A documentary directed by WLBT executive producer Kayla Thomas that tells the story of Mississippi’s African American farmers land ownership struggles after enslavement. Farming Freedom, airing in May, is a story told through the lens of Thomas’ …

Geologists accidentally found a monstrous mosasaur fossil in Mississippi mud

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a recent vertebrae fossil find belonged to “about as big” a …

It's Bear Week in Mississippi. Here's how and where to celebrate it

Mississippi has a growing population of black bears with sightings and encounters becoming more common each year. To celebrate the return of black bears and help people learn to live alongside them, prevent conflicts and have fun along the way, the …

Young boy drowns after saving his brother in Mississippi pond

MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – A boy is being remembered as a hero after saving his little brother from drowning in a pond. Family members identified the deceased child as 10-year-old Treven Pitts. The incident happened on Sunday in Monroe County. Pitts …

Mississippi appealing mail-in absentee ballot ruling to U.S. Supreme Court 

Mississippi officials are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal court ruling that struck down Mississippi’s five-day grace period for mail-in absentee ballots to arrive after Election Day.  Attorneys for the state filed court documents stating …

Mississippi State FIRES National Championship Winning Coach Lemonis During The Season?!?!?

It is a cold world out there. After winning the school's only national title in any sport in history in 2021, Mississippi State has fired Chris Lemonis during the middle of the baseball season. After winning the CWS, The Bulldogs fell off a cliff in …