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Long Beach will host Cal Ripken baseball tournament

LONG BEACH -- About 1,000 visitors are expected in the city in July when it hosts the 2013 Cal Ripken Southwest Regional baseball tournament, its largest group yet, Mayor Billy Skellie said.

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DMR officer rescues fishermen from boat mishap near Long Beach

LONG BEACH -- A marine patrol officer rescued two South Mississippi fishermen whose boat capsized in the Mississippi Sound.
BUSINESS

Long Beach wholesale business brewing up success for Coast Roast coffee

LONG BEACH -- After nearly a decade of serving coffee and four years of roasting his own beans in a converted bank building in downtown Long Beach, Shawn Montella has become an "overnight success" in the wholesale coffee bean business with his Coast Roast brand.
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Coroner identifies Long Beach man who drowned in pond

LONG BEACH -- An autopsy shows 87-year-old man William Sanders drowned in his backyard pond at his home on 28th Street, Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove said.
LONG BEACH

Update: Autopsy planned on man, 87, found dead in Long Beach pond

LONG BEACH -- An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death for an 87-year-old man found unresponsive Wednesday in a pond behind his home.
ELECTIONS

Parker returning as Long Beach alderman

LONG BEACH -- Bernie Parker will continue to represent Ward 2 residents as their alderman in Long Beach.
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Sisters take down priests 6-4 in charity soccer game

Nuns vs. priests in soccer?
HEALTH

NURSING SPOTLIGHT: Daphne Powell

Daphne Powell of Long Beach has worked on the Gulf Coast since 1987 and is currently employed at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport as is presently a nurse manager with the medical/telemetry unit.
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Long Beach man gets 15 years for child porn

A Coast man is going to jail after pleading guilty to one charge of possession of child pornography, Attorney General Jim Hood said Tuesday in a press release.
LONG BEACH

Driver crashes into Winn-Dixie

LONG BEACH - A motorist who crashed into the front of Winn-Dixie on Cleveland Avenue about 8 a.m. today had a seizure before his pickup rammed through the front glass windows, Police Chief Wayne McDowell said.
LONG BEACH

One dead, several injured in I-10 crash

A multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 10 at 3:11 a.m. today killed a Long Beach woman and injured several others.