OCEAN SPRINGS -- Two Ocean Springs teenagers are in stable condition following a crash Sunday night that killed their driver, Daegan L. Stallworth, a 10th grade student and football player at Ocean Springs High.

BILOXI -- Smokey and the Bandit Run are headed to Biloxi Tuesday for a two-night stop and block party on their convoy from Texarkana to Atlanta.

The highly anticipated Gulfport Music Festival will be back for its second year this weekend. With more than 70 local, regional and national acts performing Friday, Saturday and Sunday, organizers predict the event to be even bigger than before.

MONTERREY, Mexico -- Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appeared to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.

If not, keep looking each Sunday as the Sun Herald brings pictures of your friends and neighbors and possibly even you to our popular beachblvd feature, Framed.

BILOXI -- The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast on Saturday graduated 258 students in a commencement at the Coast Coliseum in Biloxi.

A woman experiences many changes during her first year of motherhood. The life of a little being comes before her own. There are new cries to interpret, new hours for sleeping and a new name to go by. There is also a new holiday to celebrate.

The Sun Herald’s Don Hammack, a former submariner, will board the USS Mississippi and ride it to Pascagoula later this month for a June 2 commissioning.

HATTIESBURG -- He didn’t lose a bet.

Stone County officials say a possible tornado touched down earlier today in Stone County ripping tin from a barn roof, but causing no injuries.

NATCHEZ -- Christopher Lee Baxter was given a life sentence with no parole Friday after a jury convicted him of capital murder for his role in a 2010 high-speed pursuit that left George County Sheriff Garry Welford dead.

Thirty states now ban same-sex marriage but North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue said Friday her state’s passage of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman makes North Carolina “look like Mississippi.”

GUNTOWN -- Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister, and he was armed with a pistol as officers closed in.

The man accused of running over and killing George County Sheriff Garry Welford in 2010 has been found guilty of capital murder.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue said Friday that passage of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman makes North Carolina “look like Mississippi.”

NATCHEZ -- The capital murder case of Christopher Lee Baxter went to the jury just before 2 p.m.

This week, Marquee Framed went to Mayfest in Ocean Springs, where crowds enjoyed live music along Government Street, and to El Mexicano Restaurante in Gulfport and Los Tres Amigos on U.S. 49 in Gulfport for Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

BILOXI -- Former Gov. William Winter challenged Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College graduates to remember the obligation they have moving forward to help others.

JACKSON COUNTY -- A woman whose death-threat text had deputies scrambling to find her and her children had lied about her circumstances to get them into a battered women’s shelter in Pascagoula, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

GUNTOWN -- A manhunt for a fugitive accused of kidnapping and a double-slaying ended Thursday after the suspect apparently shot himself and died. The girls he fled with are safe, police said.