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Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Cassie Fambro
Homebuilders associations are investigating reports of possible price gouging as lumber prices continue to rise and eat into the cost of new projects.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By WTOK Staff
The scholarship is open to students from Sumter, Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Perry, Bibb, Pickens, Marengo, Dallas and Wilcox counties in west Alabama.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Lindsay Knowles
The popular convenience store Buc-ee’s is set to come to South Mississippi, which would make it one of only a few locations outside of the state of Texas.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By WTOK Staff
The number of people who are fully vaccinated stands at 959,131, or 19.5%, with 1,422,883 receiving at least one dose of the vaccine as of Apr. 22.
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Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Associated Press
State Sen. Rodger Smitherman of Birmingham said his bill is intended to prevent the targeting of motorists based on their race or ethnicity.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Mia Monet
Mayor Wilbert Carr said Magnolia State Park floods whenever it rains.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By WTOK Staff
The latest MSDH report shows 714,399 people are fully vaccinated, or approximately 24%, and 921,649 have received at least one dose, or 31%.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
SB 2795 passed the Senate 35-13 and the House 91-25 in March.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 3:28 PM CDT
|By WBRC Staff
During a 12-month period ending May 2020, drug overdoses increased more than 20% in Alabama.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 3:01 PM CDT
|By Lydia Nusbaum
State lawmakers Wednesday approved a bill out of committee that would ban vaccine passports.
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Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 2:23 PM CDT
|By Courtney Ann Jackson
Jackson State University is the only school that chose not to raise tuition for next year.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 12:02 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 233 new COVID-19 cases, 2 new deaths and 25 outbreaks at long-term care facilities Wednesday.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 10:45 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
A Lee County man became the first winner of $500,000 in the new “$100 Million Extravaganza” scratch-off game from the Mississippi Lottery.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Gov. Tate Reeves has signed Senate Bill 2313, also known as the “Mississippi Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act”.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 362 new COVID-19 cases, 8 new deaths and 20 outbreaks at long-term care facilities Tuesday.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 4:57 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The popular festival was cancelled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 2:31 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
Milwaukee Tool will expand its presence in Mississippi by investing $60 million in advanced technology and manufacturing equipment.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant
The team’s final scheduled contest with Prairie View A&M was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols and contact tracing within the JSU football program.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 11:39 AM CDT
|By Patrice Clark
Tiranda Plummer says she contracted COVID-19 earlier this year and that it caused kidney failure.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 11:02 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
14-year-old Siarra Scarberry of Magnolia, Miss., has been located and is safe.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 10:18 AM CDT
Miss. outdoor sports are not limiting numbers for the most part.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 2:41 PM CDT
|By Chet Landry
As of Apr. 19, $26.8 billion is available to hard-hit restaurants and bars through the U.S. Small Businesses Administration’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 2:23 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Starting this summer, Mississippi will allow home delivery of liquor, beer, wine or light spirits from local package stores or retailers.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Two students were hospitalized Monday after they were injured in a crash involving a Lee County school bus.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 12:06 PM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
The Alabama Department of Public Health reports 91 new confirmed cases Monday.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 11:15 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The latest report from the Mississippi State Department of Health shows 691,599 people are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (21%) and 912,743 have received at least one dose (28%).
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:37 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
Most of the people arrested were from Newton and Scott County.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 3:33 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
More than a dozen other states are considering restrictions on transgender athletes.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 11:03 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 216 new cases, 12 new deaths and 19 outbreaks at long-term care facilities Friday.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 3:54 PM CDT
|By Randi Hildreth and WBRC Staff
Aniah’s Law is a constitutional amendment that would allow prosecutors and judges broader discretion in requesting and denying bail to those accused of committing violent crimes.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health will be closing all 81 of its Women, Infants and Children food distribution sites throughout the state in the months ahead.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 12:27 PM CDT
|By Eddie Robertson
Landon McCaa and Thomas Brown pleaded guilty to aggravated assault but most of their sentence was suspended.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 11:11 AM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant
In an interview on The Andrew Klavan Show, Favre said politics is ruining sports and that most people are tuning out because of it.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 10:42 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 410 new cases, 6 new deaths and 19 outbreaks at long-term care facilities Thursday.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 10:15 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Workers say the change will save people thousands of dollars and hours of time spent on training.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 6:00 PM CDT
|By WAFB Staff
Officials confirm the body found in the Mississipi River in Reserve, La. on Tuesday, April 13 is that of missing LSU student Kori Gauthier.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 2:29 PM CDT
|By Jordon Gray
A parent or guardian must accompany teenagers to their vaccination appointments.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 12:08 PM CDT
|By Carmen Poe
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance for cleaning and disinfecting surfaces exposed to COVID-19.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 11:39 AM CDT
|By Bethany Davis
The final version that comes out of the House will have to be approved by Alabama voters.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 11:26 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
As of April 14, there have been 2,075,276 vaccines administered in the state.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 10:24 AM CDT
|By Karen Abernathy
His family said Brad Malagarie was a healthy man until last week when he suffered a stroke, days after he received the J&J vaccine.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2021 at 10:12 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 275 new cases, 3 new deaths and 19 outbreaks at long-term care facilities Wednesday.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 4:25 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Miss. State Dept. of Health reported 78 breakthrough cases of COVID-19. Of those, one person has died.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 12:26 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
No side effects have been reported in Alabama.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 12:10 PM CDT
|By Josh Carter
After the NCAA suggested a potential boycott of states who have recently enacted legislation banning transgender athletes from participating in sports, one state senator responded.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:54 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 317 new cases, 23 new deaths and 16 outbreaks due to COVID-19 at long-term care facilities Tuesday.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:42 AM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
Deshawn Goncalves advanced in the top 12 round Monday night on American Idol.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:25 AM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant
The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2021 at 6:19 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that challenges the state initiative process and seeks to block a medical marijuana program.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2021 at 3:59 PM CDT
|By WTOK Staff
Alabama senior citizen centers will be allowed to reopen for indoor activities as of Monday, Apr. 19.