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Updated: Mar. 4, 2023 at 8:48 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The University of Southern Mississippi is home to a top chef who’ll be participating in a national culinary championship in the Big Apple this summer.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 10:57 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi National Guard is heading up survey work at the former barracks area of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 7:58 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The M.A.A. will provide training for employees and add signage to increase awareness of human trafficking.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2023 at 6:57 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Hundreds of women attended an annual event at Pearl River Community College Saturday that was focused on issues related to women’s health.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2023 at 10:10 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Several new exhibits, along with the much anticipated Serengeti Springs Water Park, are set to open at the Hattiesburg Zoo in 2023.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 11:55 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
A bill making its way through the Mississippi Legislature would help provide more food for food pantries across the state.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 9:02 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
A traveling exhibit, which focuses on America’s reaction to the Holocaust, opens at the Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County Monday.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 12:49 AM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The chairman of Mississippi’s Public Service Commission, Dane Maxwell, says it’s time something is finally done about robo calls in Mississippi and he’d like help from state lawmakers or the federal government in getting the problem resolved.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2022 at 12:30 AM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Nearly two hundred cadets have graduated from Class 57 of the Mississippi National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 12:57 AM CST
|By Emily Blackmarr and Charles Herrington
Devotion movie stars come to Hattiesburg
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 5:17 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington, WDAM Staff and Gray News staff
Two people were killed and three people were injured in a shooting that happened Wednesday night, authorities said.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 8:40 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington and WDAM Staff
Five individuals in total were injured during the shooting that happened Wednesday night.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 7:55 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The new president of the University of Southern Mississippi was formally introduced to the USM community on Thursday afternoon at the Thad Cochran Center.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2022 at 8:33 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
More than 170 motorcycles and Jeeps took part in an annual memorial ride Saturday, which raises money in honor of Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate, two Hattiesburg police officers killed in the line of duty seven years ago.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 8:42 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Mississippi’s state auditor Shad White spoke Wednesday in Covington County and had some new comments about the ongoing civil lawsuit to recover money from the state welfare scandal.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2022 at 11:07 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby will soon honor the first female member of the armed forces from Mississippi killed in action in the War on Terror.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 10:35 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Hunters are getting ready for dove season in Mississippi and local power cooperatives are reminding them about safe shooting around power and fiber lines.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 10:05 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Former University of Southern Mississippi baseball players remember Corky Palmer, a retired USM baseball coach, after he passed away on Wednesday.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 9:31 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
It’s not everyday that the governor gives you a check for more than $1.7 million.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 10:40 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Johnny DuPree, the Democratic Party nominee for representative for the 4th Congressional District says he’s looking forward to campaigning for the general election in November.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 1:58 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The PRCC Board of Trustees has voted not to increase in-state tuition for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 1:53 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff and Charles Herrington
WCU's Board of Trustees made the announcement Tuesday, a day after board chairman, Dr. Jimmy Stewart passed the news to employees in a message Monday.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2022 at 12:19 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi National Guard hosted a special lecture at Camp Shelby Saturday, presented by a World War Two veteran and former prisoner of war who recently turned 100-years-old.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 8:22 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The mother of the first female from the U.S. Marine Corps to be killed in action in the War on Terror has announced she’s donating artifacts and memorabilia from her daughter’s military service to the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 11:11 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
PFC Henry Lee Keen was the Gold Star Honoree during the event.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 8:44 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Archaeologists at Camp Shelby are excavating a historic site used by thousands of soldiers just arriving for training in World War II
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 4:06 PM CDT
|By WDAM Staff and Charles Herrington
This crash remains under investigation by MHP.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 7:47 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Camp Iti Kana took a direct hit from an EF-2 tornado that swept through south Forrest County Wednesday night.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 3:54 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Cadets from Youth Challenge Academy Class 56 got a glimpse of a potential future Thursday at Camp Shelby.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 7:14 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The William Carey University School of Nursing announced some impressive news.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 7:25 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Congressman Steven Palazzo says Vladimir Putin is “playing games with the world” and the Biden Administration is sending all the wrong messages to the Russian leader.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 9:56 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Friday was the 5th anniversary of the deadly tornado that struck Hattiesburg and the surrounding area on Jan. 21, 2017.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 9:37 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The chief of the Collins Fire Department says alternative ways of heating your home, such as using stoves ovens or outdoor heating equipment, can be a dangerous thing to do.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2021 at 12:41 AM CST
|By Charles Herrington
156 students from across Mississippi have graduated from the latest class of the Mississippi National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2021 at 11:50 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
The national commander of the American Legion was in Hattiesburg Saturday night, asking for support in his campaign to prevent veteran suicide.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 9:14 PM CST
|By Charles Herrington
Students at Columbia Primary School are using a new vending machine on campus.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2021 at 8:02 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi National Guard is hosting two special occasions on Nov. 9.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2021 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A Hattiesburg solider killed in action in Vietnam was honored in a special memorial service Saturday.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 11:36 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Meanwhile, Pearl River Community College is preparing to host an open house for hundreds of potential new students later this month.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 11:12 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Pearl River Community College is transforming a former bookstore into a new customer service center.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 10:42 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Camp Shelby is preparing to host a special reunion of World War Two veterans that was postponed due to COVID-19.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 7:51 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Rep. Steven Palazzo says the whole process has bought the government some time.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2021 at 12:21 AM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The National Guard Saturday hosted a ceremony honoring Mississippi military service personnel killed in the War on Terror.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 7:29 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
The Mississippi National Guard is preparing to honor the members of the armed forces from Mississippi who’ve died fighting terrorism since 9/11.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 7:34 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
A prominent part of a historic American warship that’s been on display in Jackson for decades has a new home at Camp Shelby.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2021 at 9:11 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
One will be for alligators. The other will be for Chilean flamingos.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2021 at 6:55 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington
Students, as well as many families, enjoyed a Woodstock theme at the museum.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 5:21 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington, WDAM Staff and Ed Payne
Within a week of his COVID diagnosis, Isaiah Dennis was admitted into Covington County Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit and placed on a ventilator to help him breathe.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 3:54 PM CDT
|By Charles Herrington and WDAM Staff
Covington County Hospital posted a Facebook video showing Isaiah Dennis, 21, giving a testimony of his COVID-19 diagnosis.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2021 at 11:24 PM CDT
|By Amanda Alvarado and Charles Herrington
While most people call 911 when they have an emergency, a little girl in Mississippi called 911 to express her love for first responders.
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