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09/12/2024
The couple were married for 47 years. 💔
09/12/2024

The couple were married for 47 years. 💔

09/12/2024


Man killed over pair of sneakers at Jackson apartment complex identified

09/12/2024

Man arrested for fatally shooting cattle worth more than $65,000

09/12/2024

Day 6 of the trial for the man accused of killing Jimmie "Jay" Lee resumes.

The names have been released after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 55 in Mississippi left six people dead - the youngest...
09/12/2024

The names have been released after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 55 in Mississippi left six people dead - the youngest victim being 6 years old.

09/12/2024

: Man being held for questioning in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, reports say

The Mississippi Department of Corrections, along with other law enforcement agencies, is searching for an inmate who esc...
09/12/2024

The Mississippi Department of Corrections, along with other law enforcement agencies, is searching for an inmate who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

MDOC encourages anyone spotting Trigg to call their local law enforcement agency.

KILLED OVER A PARKING SPOT: A military veteran died after a brutal attack outside of a grocery store.Investigators first...
09/12/2024

KILLED OVER A PARKING SPOT: A military veteran died after a brutal attack outside of a grocery store.

Investigators first thought 80-year-old Earl Hollins was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but soon realized the attack was over a parking spot.

Family says Hollins was left brain dead from the attack and the family decided to remove him from life support.

STORY: https://tinyurl.com/mrx4w82h

: The identities of the 6 people killed during a wrong-way crash on I-55 have been released.Those killed include a 6-ye...
09/12/2024

: The identities of the 6 people killed during a wrong-way crash on I-55 have been released.

Those killed include a 6-year-old and two 18-year-olds.

STORY: https://tinyurl.com/58759faa

09/12/2024

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Identities released of 6 killed during wrong-way crash on I-55

: Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider, was acquitted on Monday in a death t...
09/12/2024

: Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider, was acquitted on Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism.

09/12/2024

BREAKING NEWS:
Identity released of man killed during early morning shooting in Jackson

Trump singled out lawmakers on a special House committee who had investigated the insurrection, citing Rep. Bennie Thomp...
09/12/2024

Trump singled out lawmakers on a special House committee who had investigated the insurrection, citing Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.

09/12/2024

Trial continues for the man accused of killing Ole Miss student Jimmie "Jay" Lee.

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WLBT-Channel 3's first broadcast was December 19, 1953. WLBT was the third TV station in Mississippi. WTOK-Channel 11 in Meridian was second in September 1953, and WJTV-Channel 25 in Jackson was first on January 20, 1953.

WLBT (LBT stands for Lamar Broadcasting Television) was originally known as WJBT and was changed to WLBT because WJBT and WJTV sounded too similar. Lamar operated WLBT until June 1971, when the Federal Communications Commission ordered that the license be vacated. The FCC turned the license over to a non-profit, bi-racial group known as Communications Improvement Inc. Lamar lost the license after allegations were made by African Americans and the United Church of Christ that the station did not fairly serve its large black audience. The FCC finally granted a permanent license to operate to TV-3 Inc. in 1980.

TV-3 was a group formed by five competing companies who were seeking the right to operate the station. WLBT is one of only two TV stations in the country to lose its broadcast license for violating the FCC's broadcast fairness license, a fact found in most broadcast textbooks.