Homebuilding blitz brings Katrina-devastated areas to life
The area around Yankie Stadium in Biloxi is as much destroyed as rebuilt.
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MDOT officially opens four-lane of Mississippi 67
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The new portion of Mississippi 67 officially opened about 4:30 p.m. today, Mississippi Department of Transportation officials said Tuesday.
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Women play big part in Habitat work project
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Habitat for Humanity building projects are in many ways a brave new world. It's first time home-ownership. It's an international meeting place. It's a first visit for many to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Search under way for bank robbery suspects
Police here are searching for two suspects in an armed robbery this morning at the U.S. 90 First Federal Bank.
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Rural firefighters charged with arson
Stone County investigators have arrested two firefighters on a charge of arson.
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Congress urges Bush to halt oil reserve shipments
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Congress voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to challenge President Bush to temporarily halt the daily shipment of thousands of barrels of oil into the government's emergency reserve.
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Alabama sex offender guilty of crossing state lines to entice children
Michael South, a registered sex offender from Alabama who was caught last year walking around in the nude at Lum Cumbest Park, was convicted today of two federal charges that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
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Barbour vetoes scrap metal, DA manpower bills
Gov. Haley Barbour has vetoed a bill that attempts to curb copper theft by regulating scrap metal trade, and he also nixed a measure that would provide more manpower for South Mississippi prosecutors to deal with a reportedly higher post-Katrina crime rates.
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Senate approves renewal of flood insurance program
The Senate agreed Tuesday to write off - and hand over to taxpayers - more than $17 billion in debt that a FEMA flood insurance program accumulated after being devastated by Katrina and other 2005 hurricanes.
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Update: One injured in fiery crash
A Biloxi man sustained minor injuries in a fiery crash this morning on U.S. 49.
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Natural gas line ruptures
City and utility crews are responding this morning to a ruptured gas line on Holly Bluff Circle off Cedar Lake Road.
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Home frames going up quickly in Biloxi as part of Carter Work Project
BILOXI - (Editor's note: This is the first of three daily web updates on the Habitat for Humanity Carter Work Project.)
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Man charged with assaulting 13-year-old boy
Sheriff’s deputies over the weekend arrested a 31-year-old man on two felony counts of sexual battery.
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U.S. 49 crash stalls morning traffic
The Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating a crash with a fire that closed a southbound lane of U.S. 49 this morning in Stone County just north of the Harrison County line.
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Some clouds hang around today
It will be partly sunny with temperatures tipping into the 80s today. Tonight's lows will be in the mid-60s. Rain pops back into the forecast Wednesday.
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China quake death toll rises to about 10,000
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A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.
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Frames for the future
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When the dust settles this Friday at the close of the Habitat for Humanity Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project, 60 Coast families will have new or rehabilitated homes.
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Carter Work Project Update: A permanent footprint
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The School Street facelift continues. By 1 p.m. today, the half-dozen or so Pascagoula houses under construction during the Habitat for Humanity Carter Work Project took shape. Teams from Citigroup, the Knight Foundation and Mississippi Power had completed the frames. A large truck rolled down the street, dropping off insulation. Volunteers set wood pillars on future porches.
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Hurricane center chief says forecast accuracy is urgent
The rapid pace of development along hurricane-prone coasts is adding a new level of urgency for forecasters to more accurately pinpoint potential storm impact zones, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
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Carter Work Project Update: A little less crowded
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Tiffany Miller is getting a new house. For the last three years, Miller, her two sisters and brother, and her daughter have been crammed into a two-bedroom Pascagoula apartment. Her siblings sleep in one room, and she and her daughter in the other. The 26-year-old has had custody of her siblings for three years. Her mother is bipolar, and has run into problems with drugs.
