FestivalSouth opens its 2020 season with Broadway’s singing, dancing, feel-good musical, Kinky Boots, in a limited engagement, June 4 - 6 in the Mannoni Performing Arts Center Auditorium.
The day after Thanksgiving is typically one of the busiest shopping days of the year, but Black Friday 2019 was unusually calm.
And that wasn’t the case only in Hattiesburg. It was true across the nation.
For her second record, Camila Cabello steps further away from her Fifth Harmony identity to balance danceable Pop (both the American EDM-based and the chugging Latin grooves that correspond with her Cuban heritage) and a new edgy midtempo ballad sensibility.
On Friday, Dec. 6, The Back Door brings guests an early Christmas gift – Ben Bedford.
The Kerrville New Folk Festival winner singer/songwriter has glowing revues from his European tour and looks forward to his Back Door debut, recommended to him by Rupert Wates.
Work is expected to begin Monday on reconstruction of the South 28th Avenue bridge just north of Pinehills Drive in Hattiesburg.
The Lumberton Panthers are heading to the South State Championship after defeating Leflore County in a nail biter Friday night.
In a game that see-sawed back and forth with five lead changes, Lumberton’s defense again stood strong late in the game to give the Panthers the 29-28 win in dramatic fashion.
The fate of the former McDonald’s building on East Central Avenue in Petal is still up in the air, at least for the time being.
The Petal Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday to deny owner David McKellar’s proposed donation of the property to the city, with Mayor Hal Marx suggesting the city would have no use for the building.
A Hattiesburg man has been arrested after allegedly shooting a gun in the parking lot of Turtle Creek Mall.
The former Lamar County School District teacher who recently pleaded guilty to statutory rape has been sentenced to a total of seven years with the Mississippi Department of Corrections, including three years in prison.
A longtime local police officer has been hired to lead the Hattiesburg Public School District's school resource department.
For Petal residents looking for their Chick-fil-A fix, it may not always be practical to venture all the way to west Hattiesburg to the Hub City’s two available locations in Turtle Creek Mall and U.S. 98.
Most people want to shed a few extra pounds from his or her body, but that’s not the case for Southern Miss redshirt senior Tyler Stutzman.
Almost a year and a half after the shops in Eastbrook Commons were destroyed by the January 2017 EF-3 tornado, Fox’s Pizza Den is set to return to the Petal shopping center, along with a new yogurt shop.
Forrest County Emergency Management officials are still working off a worse-case scenario as they await the arrival of Hurricane Nate, which is predicted to make landfall as a weak Category 2 hurricane tonight along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Predictions as of the 11 a.m.
Hub City residents are known for their kindness, generosity and looking out for one another. It happens all the time under a variety of circumstances. And in true Pine Belt fashion, it’s happened again, but in a way that has extended far beyond the confines of the Pine Belt.
The Oak Grove Warriors’ season came to an end Friday night and with the it the hope of a state... READ MORE
