Crime

Child Dies In Crash, Mother Gets DUI

Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove tells News 25 eight year old "Jayden Tyson" died after two cars collided at the intersection of US 49 and Orange Grove Road Saturday night. Authorities say the driver was Tyson's mother, 27 year old…

Police Make Arrest After Shooting

A man is behind bars after a shooting in Biloxi Saturday morning. Authorities have arrested 29-year old Biloxi resident Orlando Newell on murder charges.  After a report of a possible shooting Biloxi Police found a forty year old black male…

MDOC Escapee Captured in Saucier

The Harrison County Sheriff’s Department assisted in the arrest of one of the two Mississippi Department of Corrections escapees. Sheriff Troy Peterson tells News 25 that 21-year-old Zachary Savoie was apprehended in Saucier on River Line Drive. Savoie is convicted…

Authorities Investigating Jackson County Drive-by Shooting

Shots were fired outside the Chevron gas station in St. Martin last night. The drive-by shooting happened around 9:15 p.m. at the gas station off Washington Avenue. Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies are looking for a black or dark blue PT…

Felony Drug & Weapons Charge

A Pass Christian man is behind bars on felony drug and gun charges. Rhett Raphael Peters was arrested on charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute meth. Peters was also in possession of a firearm as a felon. A search…

Armed Robbery

One woman is behind bars for armed robbery incident that too place the 700 block of Bell Circle in Long Beach. Theresa Celeste Northrup was also arrested on a warrant for failure to appear in court on a possession charge…

Authorities Investigating Drive-By Shooting

News 25's Laurene Callander tells us about the drive-by shooting that happened outside of the Cheveron and McDonalds off the Ocean Springs exit off of I-10 last night.

Hostage Situation and Stand Off in Jackson

Jackson Police are trying to figure out whether anyone was ever being held hostage in a house where they’d earlier believed a man was holding about a dozen people. Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance called the situation “bizarre” in a…

Gulfport Man Allegedly Sets Man on Fire

A Gulfport man faces aggravated assault charges after allegedly dousing a man with gasoline before setting him on fire in Hattiesburg. According to Hattiesburg police, 39-year-old Kunta Kidd of Gulfport was arrested earlier today and booked at the Forrest County…

Hostage Situation and Standoff in Jackson

A hostage situation is going on at a rooming house in Jackson. It all started this morning. Police say 13 hostages have been released and at least one more person is still barricaded inside a home. A 9-1-1 call came…

Gulfport Man Arrested for Setting Man on Fire

A south Mississippi man is charged with aggravated assault after allegedly dousing another man with gasoline and setting him on fire. Thirty-nine-year-old Kunta Kidd of Gulfport was arrested early today. He was booked into Forrest County Jail in Hattiesburg and…

St. Martin Middle School Bomb Threat

Officials are currently investigating a bomb threat at St. Martin Middle School. Jackson County Superintendent Barry Amacker tells News 25, the school was evacuated shortly after 11 this morning when a threatening note was found posted in the bathroom. The…

Three People Suspected of Fraud

The Biloxi Police Department needs your help finding three people they believe committed credit card fraud. The three suspects you see here one male and two females are wanted for questioning in connection with credit card fraud committed at a…

Gulfport Teen Wanted for Murder

Gulfport police now have a suspect in connection to Tuesday night’s shooting on Monterey Drive. Nineteen-year-old Deandre Deshawn-Antonio Ball is wanted by police on murder charges. Ball is accused of shooting and killing 20-year-old Trevues Martin just hours before his…

Kim Savant Seeks Early Release

Former Harrison County Supervisor Kim Savant, serving five years for bribery, is asking President Barack Obama to let him out of prison. This according to e-mails Savant shared with the Sun Herald. Savant pleaded guilty without indictment to taking $1,500…

Police Searching For Purse Thief

Ocean Springs Police are looking for a man who is believed to have stolen a purse out of a woman's purse at the CVS on Highway 90 over the weekend. The man is said to have freckles on his face…

Accused Nun Killer Confesses

The man accused of killing two Mississippi nuns confesses this according to a state investigator. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officer testified Friday during a preliminary hearing for 46 year old Rodney Earl Sanders. According to the officer, Sanders confessed…

Charged With DUI Causing Death

The George County Sheriff's office have arrested a man and charged him with a DUI causing death. Fifty five year old David Allen Gibson was driving an ATV with an unidentified 48 year old female on the railroad tracks near…

The Fight For Photos At Inmate Visits

Mississippi Prisons do not allow photos to be taken during an inmate's visitation hours and one local woman is trying to change that. A Photoshop picture is the closest thing to picayune resident Jennifer Bynum’s has to a real photograph…

Charged With DUI Causing Death

A deadly two vehicle accident in Jackson County early last Sunday morning, 23 year old Julio Cesar Chavez is booked into the Jackson County jail under a felony charge of DUI causing death. According to Mississippi highway patrol the accident…

Gulfport Teen Wanted for Murder

The search continues for the suspect wanted in last week’s shooting death in Gulfport. Nineteen-year-old Deandre Deshawn-Antonio Ball is wanted by police on a murder charge. Ball is accused of shooting and killing 20-year-old Trevues Martin just hours before his…

Man Accused Of Killing Nuns in Court

The man accused of killing two nuns in central Mississippi will appear in court this afternoon. 46 year old "Rodney Earl Sanders" is charged with capita murder in the death two Nuns "Margaret Held" and "Paula Merrill" the sisters were…

Ocean Springs Man Denied Bond

Fifty nine year old Phillip Spear will be held without bond, pending a trial, on charges of producing and distributing child pornography out of his home. This was decided at his preliminary hearing at the Gulfport Courthouse this morning. According…

D’Iberville Manslaughter Arrest

A D’Iberville man is behind bars today, charged with manslaughter. Shortly before midnight, 33-year-old Michael Allan Pittman called the D’Iberville Police Department to report an attempted suicide at Timber Grove Apartments. When D’Iberville police arrived they found 36-year-old Rondal Butler…