Winona community celebrates inaugural festival

WINONA, Miss. (WCBI) Area towns are always looking for ways to get people involved in the community and bring in visitors. A Fall festival can be just such an event. Some people in and around Winona thought that would be a good way to bring people to town. Music is one way to bring a community together. That was one…

Fallen soldiers were honored in Columbus

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) Hundreds of thousands of men and women have put their lives on the line to serve and fight for this country, and unfortunately, not all of them were able to return home. The city of Columbus is making sure the lives and legacies of those fallen soldiers are not forgotten. The annual wreath laying ceremony was held…

A man is behind bars in Oxford for making terroristic threats

OXFORD, Miss. (WCBI) A man is behind bars in Oxford for making terroristic threats towards a business. On September 30th, the Oxford Police Department received a call from a pharmacy’s security team, about terroristic threats posted on X from an anonymous user about the business. After over a month of investigating, investigators identified the account user as 21-year-old of Wade…

Federal workers face hardship in government shutdown

NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI (WCBI) – The current Government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history. It’s been more than a month since the shutdown began –leaving many federal workers on the job, but out a paycheck. “I haven’t been paid anything since the shutdown, not a dime. I get earning statements, but they’re all zeroed,” said one federal worker. There are…