Aberdeen man is found guilty by a jury of his peers

MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – An Aberdeen man was found guilty by a jury of his peers. Ray Lenoir went to trial in Monroe County Circuit Court this week. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison on a Trafficking Meth charge and 20 years on a possession of Cocaine charge by Circuit Court Judge John White. Lenoir faces other…

LCSO makes arrest in connection to a series of burglaries

LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – A man is arrested in connection to a series of burglaries in Lowndes County. 45-year-old Brent Lane Spencer is facing multiple charges and has allegedly been on the run for several months. On July 6 and July 7, several businesses were broken into in the Caledonia and Steens area of Lowndes County, and the suspect…

MSU research helps commercial agriculture labor shortage

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Making farming less stressful. There’s a labor shortage in commercial agriculture around the country. However, Mississippi State is doing research on spray drones and other unmanned aircraft systems to help with the problem. “What we’re seeing is the earliest of those large UAS type of operations, and the benefits for the state’s agricultural industry is going to…