GULFPORT A quiet settled over Circuit Judge Lisa Dodson's courtroom Friday afternoon as she read the guilty verdicts in Larry Minter's capital murder trial.
LAUREL D'Iberville may have the state's best trio of high school football players.
So bank offices remained open, but on the chilly, sunny Friday morning as the slate-gray hearse passed the Hancock Bank building where Seal got his banking start in 1947, employees and customers respectfully stepped outside for its passing.
GULFPORT Officials with the Port of Gulfport hope to start work in December now that the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development has approved the state's revised plan to restore the port.
BAY ST. LOUIS Six hundred people filled the small Main Street Methodist Church, either the sanctuary, the church's Rebecca Hall or the warmed tent set up across the street with video screens, to pay final respects to Leo W. Seal Jr. On Thursday night, another 800 had attended visitation at St. Stanislaus gym.
Larry Minter has been found guilty on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Harond "Bucky" Levron and Christine Suber.
STENNIS SPACE CENTER Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise likened the ground-breaking for Infinity Science Center in Hancock County on Thursday to launch day: "We've been counting down to this event for several years and now we are finally here."
It's been a long time since D'Iberville hit the road for a football game - as in five weeks - but that is one of the challenges facing the Warriors tonight in the third round of the 4A state playoffs.
GULFPORT Police shot and killed a man during a gunfight this morning near the Norwood Village Shopping Center at U.S. 49 in Orange Grove.
The 44th president of the United States will be sworn into office amid two increasingly unpopular wars and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, at an obvious crossroads for our nation.
GULFPORT Police shot and killed a man during an incident this morning near the Norwood Village Shopping Center in Orange Grove.
BILOXI In 2002, Michael Cleary checked out of an Atlanta suburb and into a life of homelessness after a drunk driver killed his wife and son.
GULFPORT Larry Minter's fate will rest in jurors' hands after closing arguments are presented today in his capital murder trial.
Biloxi City Councilman Mike Fitzpatrick inappropriately chose a meeting of the Harrison County Council of Governments to disparage both Mayor A.J. Holloway and the pace of progress in Biloxi since Hurricane Katrina.
JACKSON A legislative task force has released its proposals aimed at improving Mississippi's underperforming schools, and is holding principals and superintendents more accountable is at the top of the list.
The Mississippi Coast lost one of its best friends Tuesday with the passing of 84-year-old banker Leo Seal Jr. to a blood disorder he kept as quiet as he did the philanthropic and community leadership stories about himself.
GULFPORT St. Stanislaus spoiled Gulfport's home basketball opener in a big way Tuesday.
GULFPORT A gun found in Turkey Creek was registered to Harold "Bucky" Levron, according to testimony in the capital murder trial of Larry Minter.
WASHINGTON Southern lawmakers sour on Detroit bailout If it's no surprise that Michigan lawmakers are behind the pitch for a $25 billion lifeline for Detroit automakers, then it might be just as predictable that Southerners would be leading the charge against it.
The Mississippi Coast lost one of its best friends about midnight last night with the passing of 84-year-old banker Leo W. Seal Jr. to a blood disorder he kept as quiet as he did the philanthropic and community leadership stories about himself.
