BILOXI With a Walmart Cheer from the employees and a ribbon cutting, customers flooded into the new Biloxi Walmart Supercenter on C.T. Switzer Roade today at 8 a.m.

GOP hopeful Rick Santorum says he's leaving the presidential race, making Mitt Romney the likely nominee, the Associated Press is reporting.

University of Southern Mississippi President Martha D. Saunders announced Tuesday that Vice President for Research Dr. Denis Wiesenburg has been named as the university’s next provost, pending approval by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. The change is effective July 1.

ESPN is reporting that Bill Parcells won't be coaching the Saints during Sean Payton's suspension.

A state inmate who failed to return from a 72-hour pass to Pass Christian has been captured in Gulfport, officials said.

The New Orleans Saints are reporting that Commissioner Roger Goodell has rejected the appeals of suspensions and fines imposed on the team for its bounty program.

The Harrison County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to create a regional tourism board.

Hancock County sheriff's investigators tonight said Louie Matranga was the man fatally shot Saturday night in a dispute in front of a home on Kiln-Waveland Cutoff Road.

The Sun Herald has learned that the suspect in a triple slaying in Bay St. Louis had two prior convictions for sex crimes.

A woman questioned this morning about the shooting death of a Kiln man has been charged with his murder, officials said.

JACKSON COUNTY Sheriff Mike Byrd early this morning released the names of a Vancleave couple believed to be involved in a homicide reported Thursday night.

GULFPORT The National Weather Service has canceled a tornado watch for South Mississippi

LUCEDALE Special Judge Richard Mckenzie said he will review his notes from two days of testimony before he makes rulings on two motions in the capital murder case of Christopher Baxter. One of the motions could potentially take the death penalty off the table as an option at trial.

GULFPORT The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a flash flood watch for parts of South Mississippi until 7 p.m. tonight.

D’Iberville police are asking the public’s help to find a man they say robbed a convenience store at gunpoint.

LUCEDALE - A special judge this afternoon denied several motions to limit or compel certain testimony on behalf of capital murder suspect Christopher Baxter, who is accused along with a girlfriend in the July 21, 2010, killing of George County Sheriff Garry Welford.

LUCEDALE - Defense attorneys for capital murder suspect Christopher Baxter, who is accused in the July 2010 killing of George County Sheriff Garry Welford, are arguing motions on Baxter's behalf in George County Circuit Court today.

Police have identified a woman found dead in a ditch today on Melton Avenue in Pascagoula.

A Bay St. Louis man is in critical condition after a one-car accident early this morning.

HURLEY Janette Rubino, 47, of Hurley is in critical condition after a shooting this morning.