Film insdustry backlash against the "religious freedom" law continues as a Coast film festival loses a headliner. Fear Fete woner/promoter Thomas Wills also said he's having a hard time convincing out-of-staters that the Coast is not Jackson.
Gov. Bryant signed House Bill 1523, the "religious liberty" bill, that makes discrimination against the LGBT community in Mississippi legal by citing religious beliefs. An LGBT millennial tells why he will stay in South Mississippi despite the decisions made in Jackson.
Former Southern Miss men's basketball coach Donnie Tyndall was hit hard by the NCAA on Thursday while his former Golden Eagle program escaped further postseason ban.
Patricia Joy Harris, 32, of Moss Point was sentenced to prison Thursday after the caregiver pleaded guilty to felony exploitation of a vulnerable person and forgery, the Attorney General's Office said.
BILOXI -- A peaceful protest of HB 1523, the "Religious Freedom Act" is set for Friday afternoon in front of the Biloxi Visitors Center (across U.S. 90 from the Lighthouse), from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Jennifer Noble, owner of Cheeky Monkey Cake Company in D'Iberville, said she is fed up with the wedding cake inustry being brought into the HB 1523 debate.
Word has slowly been leaking out of Carriere throughout the week, but Pearl River Central made it official Friday with the announcement that long-time Forrest County AHS coach Larry Dolan will lead the Blue Devils football program.
Not all religious people on the Mississippi Coast think alike. The Episcopal Church and the Baptist Church are poles apart, for example. Two men, one a retired minister with liberal leanings, the other a conservative Baptist minister, give their views on the issue.
For the first time, a Mississippian has won the coveted “American Idol” crown. This is historically significant on a couple of levels as Amory native Trent Harmon is the first “Idol” from the Magnolia State and he will be the last as the show has called it quits after 15 seasons. Trent Harmon is simultaneously a first and last “Idol.”
GULFPORT -- A Long Beach woman accused of cutting a pacemaker out of her dead boyfriend's chest and stuffing his body into a trash can in October died Thursday.
