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One suspect is in custody following an active shooter situation at Howard Industries in Laurel. According to The Laurel Leader-Call, Keith Hinton shot one person Friday morning before officers issued a BOLO on the suspect’s 1986 gray GMC pickup truck. Hinton was later captured in Stone County. Chief Tommy Cox of the...

Research by a team of Hattiesburg doctors and residents helped pass a Mississippi House bill that classified tianeptine, a.k.a. “gas station heroin,” as a Schedule III drug.

Macedonia Volunteer Fire Department firefighters responded to the report of a one-vehicle collision on Friday just before 6 p.m.

On February 24, 2023, CMS issued a proposed rule that would modify the Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment regulation to limit the universe of Section 1115...

Forrest County officials say deputies were serving a civil commitment writ to one man when another man approached them and a fight ensued.

Hattiesburgs community college received over $1.7 million in grants to expand manufacturing and nursing programs, start truck-driving training.

Hattiesburgs community college received over $1.7 million in grants to expand manufacturing and nursing programs, start truck-driving training.

Lexie Kent will represent New Albany in the 73rd Mississippi Miss Hospitality Competition at the Historic Hattiesburg Saenger Theater in Downtown Hattiesburg July 15 - 16 at 8 p.m. each

Friends and family of the late Jordan Wayne Goff met at the softball field in “Backatown” Bay St. Louis on Monday to release blue and silver balloons in his memory.

Clinical leaders at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, are urging community members to get the COVID-19 vaccine.