BILOXI — BP’s head of Gulf Coast Restoration and the company’s incoming chief executive officer said South Mississippians will soon notice fewer contract workers on Coast beaches, fewer Vessels of Opportunity boats in the Gulf and less boom protecting shores and marshes.
BILOXI — The Mississippi Sound reopened Friday for recreational fishing after a nearly four-week closure.
GULFPORT — Washington attorney Kenneth Feinberg expects to take over independent administration of individual and private-business claims against BP by Aug. 23 at the latest, he said Friday.
PASCAGOULA — A Jackson County jury convicted Tevin Benjamin, 15, of capital murder in the October 2008 shooting death of a Hattiesburg man who had stopped in Moss Point to ask directions to his grandson’s football game.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, charged by President Barack Obama with developing a plan for the long-term restoration of the Gulf states after the BP oil spill, heads back to the Gulf next week for town meetings in all five states — two a day in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and one in Texas.
METAIRIE, La. — Lance Moore came up with a circus catch before being upended by New Orleans Saints teammate Malcolm Jenkins. Coach Sean Payton moved the Saints’ second practice of training camp indoors because of the oppressive heat. And wily defensive coordinator Gregg Williams complained that the conditions should have been more demanding.
OCEAN SPRINGS — St. Alphonsus Catholic Church is bursting at the seams.The sanctuary seats about 400 people, but about 1,200 attend Mass at a variety of times.
NEW YORK — Chevron’s second-quarter earnings tripled on better refining margins and higher prices for oil and natural gas, the company said Friday.
Mississippi’s second Sales Tax Holiday on certain “back to school” items began at 12:01 a.m. this morning and ends at midnight Saturday. Unfortunately, there is no holiday for the expenses the uncollected sales taxes would have helped pay for.
Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man who passed out while allegedly trying to break into a mobile home where an 82-year-old woman was calling 911, crowbar in hand. Deputies said 24-year-old Derrick Gauthreaux of Denham Springs was checked at a hospital Thursday, then booked into the parish jail on one count of attempted burglary.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reopens three oyster harvesting areas east of the Mississippi River, including Lake Borgne (born) in Orleans Parish.
International military exercises in the Pacific Ocean are concluding after more than a month of training, tactical coordination and communication between the United States and its allies.
Israeli warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people, the group said Saturday.
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