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It's 'action' for movie filming in Biloxi

JOHN FITZHUGH/SUN HERALDCrew members prepare to shoot a scene during the first day of filming of 'Artists Die Best in Black.'

Two separate movies are being filmed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, one a novel-based murder mystery and the other a fictional hurricane movie that includes Burt Reynolds.

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GULFPORT

Gulfport wants county to name beach section after columnist

GULFPORT -- If all goes as planned, a section of the beach that author and Sun Herald columnist George Thatcher walks almost daily will be named after the 90-year-old writer.
GULFPORT

Man arrested in Gulfport accused in Jamaican lottery scam

GULFPORT -- A man accused of defrauding two out-of-state residents in a Jamaican lottery scam has been arrested in Gulfport.
OCEAN SPRINGS

Coast ready for its close-up as filming begins in Biloxi

Two separate movies are being filmed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, one a novel-based murder mystery and the other a fictional Starz channel hurricane movie that includes Burt Reynolds.
GULFPORT

Gulfport man convicted of misdemeanor in assault trial

GULFPORT -- A Harrison County jury has found a Gulfport man not guilty of aggravated domestic assault, but guilty of simple assault in an incident that injured his former girlfriend.
GULFPORT

No one injured after shot fired in Gulfport parking lot

GULFPORT -- A man fired a shot inside a vehicle at Crossroads Shopping Center early Sunday night but no one was injured.
MILITARY

Gulfport Guard unit helps protect Southwest Asia

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- A RQ-4 Global Hawk is flying across Southwest Asia, surveying more than 90,000 square miles of open water. Without eyes, the Global Hawk must fly hours weaving in and out of thousands of commercial, private, and military jets in the area; but how do the operators know what is where...
GULFPORT

MDA says it intends to meet federal job-creation goals

GULFPORT -- The Mississippi Development Authority intends for 51 percent of new jobs at the state port to be filled by low- to moderate-income residents, but never said current jobs would meet that goal, the agency says in response to concerns the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
GULFPORT

Gulfport fire station to close today

GULFPORT -- A fire station near the Broadmoor area of the city will close today, officials said Friday.
HANCOCK COUNTY

Local talk show filmed in Gautier debuts Saturday

GAUTIER -- A new talk show will soon air on local television and it won't be one produced and filmed in Chicago, Atlanta or New York, but rather here at home in South Mississippi.
GULFPORT

Biloxi man admits being a drug addict in possession of firearms

GULFPORT -- A Biloxi man faces up to 10 years in prison at his sentencing as a drug addict found in possession of firearms.