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Hattiesburg, MS
Joined November 2008
Their SpaceX capsule should reach the orbiting lab this weekend and stay for at least six months.
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SpaceX's next launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center is Friday at 11:43 a.m. (ET), although the weather forecast is less favorable.
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The indictment alleges that Satori Monique Dale “did willfully torture, willfully abuse, cruelly beat or otherwise willfully maltreat said child by yanking the child by his arm.”
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A child care worker has been indicted on a child abuse charge stemming from an alleged incident at Nazaree Christian School last year.
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Deputies said the victim told them she was kidnapped from her home in Alabama and sexually assaulted in multiple jurisdictions by Melvin Hill, her ex-boyfriend.
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Deputies said the victim told them she was kidnapped from her home in Alabama and sexually assaulted in multiple jurisdictions by Melvin Hill, her ex-boyfriend.
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Ellis, a former Jasper County Solid Waste Department employee, is accused of pocketing $11,181 for her own personal use instead of depositing the funds into the solid waste account.
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Special agents from the Office of Mississippi Auditor Shad White arrested Lacorsha Ellis on Thursday.
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We sound like a broken record at this point! It's going to be hot and there's a good chance of rain this afternoon. Learn more in Rex's morning forecast!
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Showers and thunderstorms will become likely this afternoon and early evening with highs in the mid-90s before the rain moves in.
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PINE BELT BLITZ: With the season opener a little less than a month away, the Wildcats' journey is only getting started.
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Pine Belt Blitz: Columbia High School
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Trump signs order for new tariffs _ maybe >>
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would have new tariffs on a wide swath of U.S. trading partners to go into effect in seven days.
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The George County School Board is prioritizing students’ mental health by implementing Hope Squad, a student-led, peer-to-peer counseling organization.
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Hope Squad is a student-led, peer-to-peer counseling organization.
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Officers make rare, helicopter landing to save drowning man >>
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Video shows a police helicopter landing in a field to save a man who nearly drowned at a closed pool.
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Children had to run and perform sit-ups, pullups or pushups and a sit-and-reach test, but the program changed in 2012 during the Obama administration to focus more on individual health than athletic feats.
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President Donald Trump reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, active lifestyles.
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MDOT work nearing completion on U.S. 49 median near the University of Southern Mississippi >>
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation said it expects its work on U.S. 49 through Hattiesburg to wrap up by mid-August
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Childhood vaccination rates fall again >>
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U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high.
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'Here's your payment': Contractor pays fine with loose change weighing more than 12,000 pounds >>
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A property owner in Maine, upset with a hefty fine that he was facing, decided to pay it in his own way.
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LPD arrests pair of long-sought suspects connected to separate incidents >>
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Two arrests this week brought the Laurel Police Department a little closer to solving investigations that have been open for months.
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Petal nonprofit completes warehouse expansion project _ almost >>
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The Petal Children’s Task Force (PCTF) has completed an expansion of its warehouse.
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PRCC's Forrest County nursing program extended, applications for inaugural spring semester class accepted starting Friday
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Students interested in enrolling in the associate degree nursing program at the Forrest County Campus of Pearl River Community College can begin applying Friday for classes next Spring.
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Florida executes 9th inmate of 2025, taking the life of man who who took the lives of his wife, 2 children >>
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Florida has carried out a record ninth execution this year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his wife and their two children decades ago.
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New principal hopes to 'do right so we can do good in Lumberton' >>
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Three of the four high schools in Lamar County School District welcomed new principals this school year.
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