Two men are behind bars after attempting to break into a construction trailer in downtown Biloxi. Officers observed Garnel Linwoof Curley and Charles Martel Oatis trying to break into a commercial trailer on the 100 block of Main Street Wednesday.…
Three women are behind bars this morning after a shoplifting incident. Princess Franklin, Yolanda Rene Green and Kristy Michelle Crosb stole several items from the Belk's store inside the Edgewater Shopping Center. Because the merchandise was over a thousand dollars,…
Alleged gang members in Jackson County have been indicted on charges in connection with the kidnapping and brutal beating of a woman last year. They could be facing stiffer penalties. News 25’s Gina Tomlinson ventured out to the site of…
A Biloxi man sentenced after pleading guilty to felony child abuse just moments before his trial was set to begin in the Harrison County Courthouse. Kenneth Preston was arrested in August 2014 after a 16-month-old child was brought to the…
A female inmate at the Jackson County Adult Detention Center allegedly plotted with another female inmate who looks similar to her to be released from the jail Monday night around 8. Thirty-one year-old Tenia Stork was jailed on contempt of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…