By ALIANA MEDIRATTA/Verite News Updated 12:59 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 Mayor LaToya Cantrell made history — becoming the first New Orleans mayor to be indicted while in office — after federal prosecutors on Friday charged her with multiple counts of…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- Some good news related to the health of a Gulfport city councilman. The family of Ward 2 Councilman Ron Roland said in a Facebook post Friday afternoon that Roland is now out of the ICU and that…
By ROB GILLIES Updated 12:07 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 TORONTO (AP) — Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday. Carney said Canada will include…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WXXV)-The victim in the deadly shooting at Ingalls Shipbuilding on Friday has been identified. Jackson County Deputy Coroner identified the victim as 27-year-old Tahj Johnson of Pritchard, Alabama. The suspect, identified as Curtis James Jr. of Mobile, is…
Many South Mississippi High School football programs are participating in jamboree games tonight. That means our High School Football Showcase returns to WXXV NBC tonight at 10. Join Sports Director Ansley…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 11:47 AM CDT, August 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company “highly overrated” and said Friday he’ll keep extending the…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference is moving to a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2026, ending a yearslong debate and potentially easing a path toward another expansion of the College Football Playoff. The change was approved by conference…
The WOW Women of Wisdom organization is hosting a lunch for first responders on September 11. Myranda Bermudez and Julia Lloyd with WOW are in studio with more. For…
By DAVID FISCHER, MIKE SCHNEIDER and FREIDA FRISARO Updated 10:05 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the…
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 11:02 AM CDT, August 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown will start carrying firearms, the Pentagon…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV) -- Multiple people are behind bars after several drug busts in Harrison County. We spoke with Sheriff Matt Haley…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- A Gulfport man will serve 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Fifty-one-year-old Octavius Louis Benton Sr. stabbed 44-year-old Damien Lindsey to death in August 2023. The stabbing happened after Lindsey hit Benton’s wheelchair bound…
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV) -- The fifth-annual Biloxi Police Department Citizen's Police Academy kicked off on Thursday night, and participants will spend the next few weeks working closely with…
The Powerball Jackpot has increased after there was no winner in Wednesday night’s drawing. The jackpot surges to an estimated $700 million. No ticket matched all the winning Powerball numbers, leaving the prize pool to grow even larger ahead of…
By TRÂN NGUYỄN and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press California lawmakers have passed legislation advancing a partisan redistricting plan that could help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats in 2026. Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday. Republicans have sued…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WXXV)- Some cute news out of the Hattiesburg Zoo from this week. Safara the Zebra gave birth to her second foal on Tuesday. This is Safara’s second foal…
By STAN CHOE, TERESA CEROJANO and MATT OTT NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes lost ground. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Thursday, its fifth straight modest loss since setting an all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.3%, and the…
Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell has launched a new campaign called 82 Counties in 82 Days. Tindell plans to visit law enforcement…
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Updated 3:26 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Orlando officials on Thursday denounced the overnight removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub where 49 people were gunned down, saying it was part of an attack…
By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Thursday that it’s reviewing the records of more than 55 million foreigners who hold valid U.S. visas for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules. In a written answer to a question posed by…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- The newest citizens of the United States of America took the Oath of Citizenship Thursday morning in Gulfport. A naturalization ceremony took place at…
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — A report of a shooter on Villanova University’s campus was a “cruel hoax,” the school’s president said Thursday. “There was no active shooter, no injuries and no evidence of firearms on campus,” the Rev. Peter M.…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Updated 12:36 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday threw out the massive financial penalty a state judge imposed on President Donald Trump, while narrowly upholding a finding…
By TRÂN NGUYỄN and JIM VERTUNO Updated 1:53 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — The national tit-for-tat redistricting battle entered its next phase Thursday as California Democrats launched their final legislative push to redraw their congressional map to add up…