anchoring 02.23

anchoring 02.23

Sinkhole.... a sinkhole appeared on gardner blvd next to wendy's last night ( saturday).... the hole is about 3.5 feet wide and 8 feet deep... columbus police department reports a leaking underground pipe caused the sinkhole... columbus light and water will begin emergency repairs tomorrow ( monday)..

Police blocked off the area and are asking drivers to use caution when driving in the area... this morning residents are still dealing with a sinkhole in lee county,, they say the sinkhole expanded about four feet ... the sinkhole and landslide spread and is now inches away from the road.... the expansion caused the water lines below to separate and cut off water for people living nearby.

The water started running again about four o clock saturday morning.... residents are worried about how fast the sinkhole is expanding.... was going on ."

"i didnt know what to do.

That's why the first thing i did was call the water company first and i called the road advisor and he told me he was going to get in touch with everybody.

Everybody on the road was up and down here trying to figure out what was going on.

" county administrators closed down half of the road and left one lane open.

The county emergency management director plans to re access the damage tomorrow ( monday)... folks waking up this morning who live near the sinkhole you still need to boil your water.... the north lee water association issued a boil water for county road 96 to county road 1253 and all adjoining roads ... meanwhile residents in choctaw county need to use a detour while traveling near a landslide on a highway.

Heavy rainfall since the beginning of the year caused a landslide along highway 9.

M-dot officials said about six miles of the highway between ackerman and eupora between reform-sturgis road and highway 790 is closed due to the landslide.

Warning signs are in place, and a detour is in place along highway 82, highway 15, and highway 12.

The road will remain closed until engineers can determine the severity the slide.

We received a ton of rain so far this year and it caused issues throughout northeast mississippi... like sinkholes in a few counties.... february is once again setting up to possibly break rainfall records... and rain continues to move into the area this week... our weather team said this month has already been one the of the wettest months on record for our area.

People in columbus continue to recover after an ef-3 tornado tore through in february 2019.

Hundreds of volunteers gathered on the one year anniversary of the storm to clean up leftover debris.

Wtva's sydney darden tells us how people are doing one year after the devastation.

The friendly city."

Nicole clinkscales, event organizer- "it's so personal for clinkscales says there is till a lot of work to be done until the city is fully recovered from the storm.

She is asking for donations so volunteers can continue their work if you want to donate find out more information on our website... w-t-v-a dot com police need your help finding this woman on your screen.... police say people last saw johnnie ruth brown on friday near nickels drive in claiborne county..

She was wearing leopard skin pants and a shirt.

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Police believe brown is in a blue 2005 lincoln town car traveling in an unknown direction... family members say brown suffers from a medical condition that may impair her judgement..

If you have any information you are asked to call the claiborne county sheriff departmetn... trial dates are set for the former head of mississippi's welfare agency and some other people.

Former mississippi department of human services director john davis and the accountant for the non-profit mississippi community education center ann mcgrew entered not guilty pleas and posted bond.

Davis' trial date is june 1.

They were among six arrested in the state's largest embezzlement scheme the six are accused of transferring millions in funds from the state welfare agency meant for the needy to their private businesses.

Auditor shad white said that more than $4 million was taken from mississippi taxpayers.

The lafayette county sheriff's department will soon have a new home... the lafayette county board of supervisors is approving a plan for the county sheriff's office to relocate from the county jail to now-empty government buildings.

The oxford eagle reports supervisors approved the request monday.

An architect projects it will cost 1 point 8 million dollars to renovate a former justice court building and a former county department of humans services office.

Architect tom howorth recommends the department occupy the former court building in a first phase, saying deputies are "on top of each other" in their current offices at the jail.

Also in lafayette county... runways at the university oxford airport will soon be getting a face lift.... the oxford eagle reports the airport is one 12 mississippi airports that will be able to do improvements this year..

On wednesday the u.s department of transportation - announced it will award 7.7 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to mississippi airports.

The department awarded university oxford airport 238,500 to go toward runway rehabilitation... do you know this man..... booneville police need your help.... police say this person in this surveillance video is wanted for questioning in an ongoing investigation..... the video is from monday night around 6 at a little caesar's restaurant in corinth.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the booneville police department or crime stoppers.

Detectives along with west point and clay county ema and the mcdonough police department found cassandra crews.

Law enforcement found crews in mcdonough, georgia.... family members reported cassandra crews missing on friday,.... and in tupelo..

Police and crime stoppers need your help finding a man wanted for false pretense.

Law enforcement said on january 2nd, the victim discovered someone used their banking information to produce fake checks... the suspect,