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Columbus Fire teaches community about safety practices
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – The Columbus Fire & Rescue Team showed their everyday job experience at the Hitching Lot Farmers’ Market. This was an exciting demonstration of how they remove people from a vehicle. The emergency was called the extrication evolution training. Battalion Chief, Chip Kain said practices...
Jury selection begins in Columbus murder trial
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Jury selection began in a Columbus murder trial. Israel Buckhalter was accused of shooting and killing his cousin, Desi Shepherd. Buckhalter was indicted on a second-degree murder charge and for shooting into a dwelling. The shooting happened on Springdale Drive back in July 2020. Shepherd...
Noxubee County brothers killed in Tennessee shooting
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF/WCBI) – Two Noxubee County brothers were killed in a Tennessee shooting. Our sister station, WDEF, reported the shooting happened in Chattanooga on May 1. 21-year-old Deaaron and 19-year-old Dejyron Tripplett both died after the incident. The shooting happened near an apartment complex on Arlington Avenue. No...
Highlighting History: 8th of May Celebration at a historic Columbus cemetery
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA) – A celebration of freedom was held in Columbus. Freedom came to the majority of Lowndes County in May of 1865 with the arrival of Union troops, almost a month after the surrender of Confederate troops in Virginia. The annual Eighth of May Celebration marks this...
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