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11/22/2025

What to know about the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein files ⬇

A Mississippi State University faculty member has made a celestial discovery in Starkville: the first asteroid identifie...
11/22/2025

A Mississippi State University faculty member has made a celestial discovery in Starkville: the first asteroid identified from the state of Mississippi.

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Jean-Francois Gout made the discovery this past January, shortly before the upcoming launch of the Vera Rubin Observatory, with its automated surveys expected to end the era of amateur asteroid discoveries.

“I started hunting for new asteroids in October 2024,” Gout said. “There was a short window left for amateurs to find regular asteroids before the Vera Rubin Observatory came online. I felt like I had to do it.”>>>https://www.wlox.com/2025/11/21/shooting-stars-msus-gout-makes-asteroid-discovery-first-mississippi/

11/22/2025

Check out Nora Mestayer. This accomplished St. Patrick's senior is "Wendy's Scholar Athlete of the Week".

One of the oldest African American congregations in the country is in danger of being lost forever. The church, located ...
11/21/2025

One of the oldest African American congregations in the country is in danger of being lost forever. The church, located in New Orleans, is crumbling, and the congregation doesn't have the funds to restore it.

Supporters pray for a miracle — for a church that helped hundreds endure slavery at a time when most were prohibited from gathering in public. >> https://www.wlox.com/2025/11/21/historic-black-church-new-orleans-crumbling/

Two newly discovered videos taken inside the Rankin County jail show officers mocking and laughing at an intellectually ...
11/21/2025

Two newly discovered videos taken inside the Rankin County jail show officers mocking and laughing at an intellectually disabled inmate, the same man guards had filmed days earlier being shocked in an electrified vest after he asked for a Coke.

Former department employees said the videos, recorded in 2018, were shared widely on an encrypted WhatsApp group chat. The footage provides a deeper look into the culture of the jail, where a recent investigation by Mississippi Today and The New York Times revealed that guards and jail administrators routinely beat inmates.

The videos were created days after Buckhalter had asked jail guards for a Coke in October 2018. Shortly after his request, the guards strapped him into an electrified vest, intended to keep violent inmates under control. Then they filmed him screaming and convulsing while they shocked him.

“Now you get a Coke!” a female guard says at the end of the video. “It’s all over! I’m so proud of you, Larry!”

Two newly discovered videos taken inside the Rankin County jail show officers mocking and laughing at an intellectually disabled inmate, the same man guards had filmed days earlier being shocked in an electrified vest after he asked for a Coke.

11/21/2025

An announcement on Lane Kiffin's future will be announced day after Egg Bowl

The pantry operates as a no-questions-asked resource, where students can stop in, take what they need, and head back to ...
11/21/2025

The pantry operates as a no-questions-asked resource, where students can stop in, take what they need, and head back to class.

The facility also offers hot meals for anyone who forgot their lunch or needs extra help during the week.

MDHS said those with SNAP can expect their total benefit balance to be available as soon as today. SNAP clients are enco...
11/21/2025

MDHS said those with SNAP can expect their total benefit balance to be available as soon as today. SNAP clients are encouraged to check their account balance to confirm receipt of benefits.

They said, per current USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) guidance, full December benefits are expected to be issued on time.

MDHS said those with SNAP can expect their total benefit balance to be available as soon as today. SNAP clients are encouraged to check their account balance to confirm receipt of benefits.

11/21/2025

Nursing is no longer considered a ‘professional degree’ by Trump administration under new bill

⛸🌟 Disney on Ice returned to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, bringing holiday entertainment through weekend pe...
11/21/2025

⛸🌟 Disney on Ice returned to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, bringing holiday entertainment through weekend performances.

The production, ‘Road Trip Adventures,’ features Moana, Simba, and several other popular Disney characters.

The show is described as a fun-filled getaway, jam-packed with unexpected magic at every turn. >>> https://www.wlox.com/2025/11/21/disney-ice-brings-beloved-stories-sparkling-magic-biloxi/

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WLOX-TV - The Stations for South Mississippi since 1962

When WLOX began broadcasting in the fall of 1962, our studios were located in the Buena Vista Hotel on the beach in Biloxi. The hotel is no longer there, but the site where it once stood is now home to MGM Park, the baseball stadium across from Beau Rivage Resort & Casino.

We broadcast local news and entertainment programs there until August, 1969. The previous month, Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon and the country was becoming more and more polarized on the Vietnam issue. The day the Woodstock Music Festival in New York was coming to an end, people here in South Mississippi were bracing for Hurricane Camille. That storm pretty much blew away everything and flooded everything else, including our Buena Vista studios. But WLOX stayed on the air as long as we could to warn people of the coming danger.

After Camille we moved to the Werlein Building on Jackson Street in downtown Biloxi. The building is still there to this day. In April, 1971 WLOX moved to its present location on DeBuys Road in Biloxi. That's where we withstood Hurricane Katrina in 2005. WLOX continued to broadcast throughout the storm, never going off the air, even after one of our broadcast towers fell into our building, and we lost the roof over our newsroom. Many employees lived at the station in the days after the storm to ensure our round the clock coverage to a battered Mississippi coast.

From its inception until 1995, WLOX was owned locally by the Love family. The leadership of the Love Family made WLOX the broadcasting machine it is today. In March of that year the family sold WLOX to the Liberty Corporation out of Greenville, South Carolina.