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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College president Willis Lott has told the Sun Herald he is retiring.
BAY ST. LOUIS — Tours of the newly renovated Valena C. Jones Center will be offered during a grand opening ceremony Sept. 15 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast’s Hancock County Unit.
BILOXI — A mental health survey shows a quarter of families in coastal Mississippi were considering leaving the area in late July, but local leaders say things are improving after natural, economic and man-made disasters and an exodus isn’t likely.
METAIRIE, La. — The NFL schedule makers knew what they were doing when they decided the New Orleans Saints would open defense of their first Super Bowl championship with a home game against the Minnesota Vikings.
GULFPORT — Supporters of Save Our Sound and others took advantage of the great Labor Day weather to enjoy the sounds of multiple bands performing for the Gulf Roots Music Series concert events.
The Heisman Trophy Trust is expected to strip former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush of college footballs top honor by the end of September, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Longtime friends and Netherlands natives Rita Meadows and Hanneke Gast team up this month to share the September featured exhibit at the Ocean Springs Art House.
The share of young people aged 16 to 24 who were employed this summer fell to 48.9 percent -- the lowest rate on record since 1948.
Not so long ago there was talk around Biloxi City Hall of yanking the city out of the Harrison County Library System because Biloxi was paying more than its fair share when compared to Gulfport and Pass Christian and D’Iberville (The Long Beach Public Library is not part of the county system.). Now the talk around City Hall is to chop library funding in half.
A Hardin County farmer said that some ears among his feed corn rows popped on the stalk in a phenomenon that agricultural experts believe is associated with irregular rainfall and high heat.
Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to New York in late September to address a summit to spur the achievement of U.N. goals to combat poverty and the annual ministerial meeting of the General Assembly.
Police say at least 15 people are dead in Honduras after gunmen burst into a shoe factory and opened fire.