The death of an inmate in Green County is being treated as a homicide. Inmate Howard Payton died in the South Mississippi Correctional Institution around 8 p.m. last night. Payton was in prison for kidnapping and three counts of rape…
A Gulfport woman pleads guilty to robbing a bank back in 2014. Thirty-six year-old Lacritia Summerlin entered her plea in court this week after admitting to robbing the First Bank on Highway 49 on September 19th, 2014. A bank teller…
A judge won't consider reducing a $2.7 million bond for Jessie Lee Williams Jr., one of four people arrested in a shooting Feb. 7 at a Mardi Gras Parade in Pass Christian that left two dead. Williams was scheduled for…
A man's repeated calls to 911 warned he was coming from Texas to kill Waveland police officers. The calls came in to Hancock County central dispatch for four hours Monday night. Police arrested the man responsible at a local gas…
Miranda Duke of Pascagoula pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery from 2013. The victim was 13-years-old at the time. Judge Kathy Jackson sentenced Duke on each of the three counts of sexual battery to serve 12 years. District…
The Biloxi Police Department is requesting your assistance in identifying a person who is wanted for questioning. The Biloxi man is wanted in connection to a credit card fraud that occurred on July 10th at the Edgewater Mall. Anyone who…
News 25's Laurene Callander tells us about the effect Janaya Thompson's death even after two years.
The man charged of burning Panola County resident Jessica Chambers to death pleads not guilty. Quinton Tellis faces capital murder charges for Chambers’ murder two years ago. This morning he entered a not guilty plea in court. Detectives say Tellis…
A court date has been delayed for the state senator charged with aggravated assault after being accused of hitting someone with a shovel in a fight last week. Senator Chris Massey of Nesbit was scheduled to appear in court Thursday,…
An arrest has been made in the death of Hancock County resident Jeremy Fountain. Drew Bourgeois was arrested in Metairie, Louisiana last night and is being held there on numerous charges including Waveland PD’s warrant for murder. Jeremy Fountain’s body…
After almost two years, members of a Gulfport community are still reeling and authorities are still seeking justice for a five-year-old girl raped and killed in their neighborhood. Saturday marks the two year anniversary of Janaya Thompson’s tragic death. News…
The Hancock County Sheriff's Department is on the lookout for four black men in a silver or gray sedan with dark tint on the window after they allegedly threatened a roadside business owner to take down his American flag. Early…
The victim of an early morning shooting in Pascagoula is in the hospital in stable condition. Police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the body after responding to a call about a shooting around 1:30 a.m. in…
Nineteen people are indicted and a Los Angeles woman is convicted in a global cybercrime scam first reported in Biloxi. Forty-four year-old Genoveva Farfan received eight years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and…
Hours of negotiation ends peacefully in Gulfport after a man shot his gun inside of his home off 25th Street this morning. News 25’s Laurene Callander has the details. It was a scary sight as neighbors watched on the sidewalk…
Police in Baton Rouge are frantically searching for a suspect at large they believe is involved in a plot to kill police officers. That plot was uncovered Saturday following a robbery at a pawn shop where eight handguns were stolen.…
The Pascagoula Police Department around 1:30 A.M. this morning went to Saratoga Street on a shooting call. When officers arrived at the house on Saratoga Street they found the victim had been shot once in the body. The victim was…
Today a Latin Kings gang member pleaded guilty to the murder of a transgender teen. Josh Vallum appeared in George County Circuit Court today, entering a guilty plea in the beating death of Mercedes Williamson of Theodore back in 2015.…
Former D’Iberville High School quarterback Jacquelle Green was arrested today on four counts of armed robbery and four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Eighteen-year-old Green was wanted by Pensacola, Florida police and will be transported to the…
Regio Lavant, 29 years old, who lives in Moss Point is a person of interest involved in the shooting that occurred on July 10,2016 at Ingalls and Heidenheim Dr. If anyone knows the whereabouts of Regio, please call the Pascagoula…
Biloxi police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted for questioning in connection with a burglary. Police say the crime happened on July 3rd at the M and N Casino Mart on Oak Street. If you have…
Pascagoula Police are looking for the suspect from a shooting that left two people injured this morning after shots were fired, Pascagoula authorities rushed to the intersection of Ingalls Avenue and Heidenhei Drive in Pascagoula at eleven am. Authorities say…
Teen in connection with a multiple-target shooting over the weekend, Aundra Cain, a 17 year-old from Gulfport, was arrested after a triple shooting critically wounded at least one of the victims. Cain is charged with three counts of aggravated assault…
Ocean Springs police need your help locating two men caught on camera robbing a wireless phone store. Surveillance video shows two males entering the Cricket Wireless building and then taking several items off of the shelves and some on display.…