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MEMA Requests Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments from FEMA Following Ida

PEARL, Miss. - The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has requested Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments from FEMA for Individual Assistance following Hurricane Ida. This request includes eight counties. The counties included in the request are Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, and Wilkinson.…

Mississippi National Guard helps battle California wildfires

JACKSON, Miss. – Today a team of Mississippi Army National Guard Aviators are deploying to California to assist local agencies with fighting the massive wildfires across the state. The CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter crew of approximately ten Soldiers will work…

MDEQ Lifts Three Beach Water Contact Advisories

(Jackson, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted three beach water contact advisories Monday for Stations 1,2, and 15. Water samples at these stations show the areas have attained acceptable bacteria levels. Three…

Wiggins firefighter dies of COVID-19

The Wiggins Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of their own after a battle with COVID-19. On Facebook, the department announced the death of Clint Jacobs who died last…

Crusaders For Veterans "Operation Southern Hospitality"

Kevin Cuttill with Crusader For Veterans joined us in studio this afternoon to talk about his latest fundraiser for our neighbors in SE Louisiana hard hit by hurricane Ida. The group is taking donations Wednesday at the Juke Joint in…

Fundraiser for family of La’Mello Parker

A fundraiser will be held for the family of La’Mello Parker, the three-month-old baby who was shot and killed back in May during a shootout between police and the infant’s…