CLAY COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) – A person was taken to a hospital after an officer-involved shooting occurred in Clay County, Mississippi.

According to MBI, the shooting involving the Clay County Sheriff’s Office happened on Friday.

A deputy with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle when the driver refused to stop, leading them on a brief chase.

The chase ended on Landfield Road in West Point when the driver exited the vehicle and led the deputy on a pursuit on foot.

The person was then shot by the deputy after the subject flashed a weapon at the Clay County deputy. The person, whose identity has not been released, was taken to a local hospital.

The Clay County deputy did not receive any serious physical injuries.

MBI is investigating the incident.

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Bryce Cunningham threw a complete game shutout to open Vanderbilt baseball’s series with a 4-0 win over Mississippi State.

Cunningham allowed just two hits and two walks with four strikeouts in the victory. It was the Commodores’ second complete game shutout of the season, as Devin Futrell also threw one in a win over Illinois State in March.

“I think it was a mindset, just attacking them best I could, trusting my defense ultimately in a showdown tonight,” Cunningham said.

Cunningham threw a season-high 122 pitches. Coach Tim Corbin said that he considered pulling Cunningham from the game and that the final batter of the game, when the Bulldogs’ Connor Hujsak popped up to third base, would’ve been Cunningham’s last regardless.

Vanderbilt is playing shorthanded on the pitching staff as JD Thompson is suspended for use of a foreign substance and Ethan McElvain is not on the active roster for the weekend due to a back injury, leaving the Commodores with 12 available pitchers.

Vanderbilt (31-11, 11-8 SEC) got home runs from Jonathan Vastine and Alan Espinal in the first inning to get out to an early lead, then later tacked on runs with a Colin Barczi RBI groundout and an RJ Austin sacrifice fly. Mississippi State (27-15, 10-9) only got a runner into scoring position once, when Hujsak doubled in the seventh inning and went to third on an error.

Cunningham got a groundout to end that threat.

The Bulldogs’ starter, Khal Stephen, put up a strong performance himself. In 7⅓ innings, he allowed four runs with one walk and six strikeouts. At one point, he retired 15 Vanderbilt batters in a row.

“The seventh inning, that was kind of a balancing act because Stephen went through us 1-2-3, I think it was three times in a row, may have been four, but when he did it in the (sixth), you could feel the momentum start to sway,” Corbin said. “So when Bryce stranded the first and third, that was a big moment for us, just to kind of maintain order in the game.”

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Aria Gerson covers Vanderbilt athletics for The Tennessean. Contact her at agerson@gannett.com or on Twitter @aria_gerson.

CHOCTAW CO., Miss. (WLBT) – The first documented cicada was spotted in Mississippi for 2024!

According to the Mississippi State University Extension Service, it was spotted in Choctaw County this week.

MSU Extension Entomologist Dr. Blake Layton says in the South, we have three broods of 13-year cicadas, each of which occurs in its own geographic area and emerges on its own schedule. This spring, thirteen-year cicada Brood XIX, also known as the Great Southern brood, will emerge in parts of 15 states, including at least 17 counties in Mississippi.

Mississippi is the only state that has all three broods of 13-year periodic cicadas. By tradition, periodic cicada broods are numbered using Roman numerals. Brood XIX will emerge this year, Brood XXII will emerge next in 2027, and Brood XXIII in 2028.

“There are 12 broods of seventeen-year cicadas, but these occur farther north,” Dr. Layton said. “Seventeen-year cicada Brood XIII will also emerge this year in northern Illinois and a few surrounding states. But not in Mississippi! So, you don’t need to worry about parts of Mississippi having seventeen-year and thirteen-year cicadas at the same time.”

For an even more in-depth explanation of what’s to come, click here.

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