BILOXI -- Representing the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast, Biloxi High School senior Aesha Coleman was named first runner-up in the state’s Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year competition.
Two Pass Christian cousins are putting their friendship and fortitude to the test on “The Amazing Race.”
GULFPORT -- Job Corps will hold a public meeting Thursday night to talk about its plans for $23 million in new construction on the old 33rd Avenue High School campus, although the school’s alumni association objects to demolition of the old high school, gymnasium and cafeteria.
STONE COUNTY -- Supervisors are looking to select a county project that could be funded from a Community Development Block Grant of up to $600,000.
Hancock Medical will hold an open house and ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for the new 10,000-square-foot Swing Building addition and reconstructed Medical Nursing Unit -- a FEMA Restoration and Mitigation project that began last year.
GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors on Monday denied an appeal by a business to open a dirt pit on Mississippi 53.
GULFPORT -- The body found floating in a creek bed Sunday near Coleman Road has been identified as Jay L. Bond, a Gulfport man missing since Dec. 1.
As long as she was busy, Mildred Lorene Gunderson was happy.
GULFPORT -- An Ocean Springs man has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of possession of child pornography, according to U.S. District Court records.
PASCAGOULA -- A Pascagoula man who posed as a cop before breaking into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting her pleaded guilty Monday as a habitual offender to numerous felony charges in the July 20, 2009 case.
Southern Corrosion Demolition and Land Clearing works to remove the remains of Melvin Plumbing on the 500 block of Howard Avenue in Biloxi on Monday, February 6 2012. A bomb shelter, right, was discovered on the property. The walls , which are about four feet thick, will need to be taken down with a wrecking ball.
JACKSON -- There’s little dispute that Edwin Hart Turner killed two men during a robbery spree in 1995 and then went home and had a meal of shrimp and cinnamon rolls before going to sleep. He’s scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday for the slayings.
JACKSON -- Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves isn’t saying whether he thinks local districts should be required to tap into their financial reserves if there’s a dip in state education funding.
POPLARVILLE -- Pearl River County deputies suspect arson was involved in a fire at a home where authorities found the body of James Raine last October.
LUCEDALE -- George County sheriff’s deputies said a surveillance camera at a scrap yard helped them nab the man they believe stole a fence from Fairley Cemetery in the Benndale community southwest of Lucedale.
HOUMA, La. -- Law enforcement officials in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes are taking steps they hope will make room in the parish jails for an expected Carnival season influx.
JACKSON COUNTY -- A Biloxi man pleaded guilty today to failure to pay child support and received a 3 1/2-year suspended sentence plus orders to immediately pay back $2,020 of the $15,000 owed in the case.
PASS CHRISTIAN -- A senior at Pass Christian High School made a composite score of 36 on the ACT.
GULFPORT -- Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove will perform an autopsy today on a body that was found Sunday morning.
