The main question on resident’s minds at the Gulf Mist Apartments: who was the 30-year-old man shot and killed at their complex? According to Jamie Hatcher, the manager of the complex, Christopher Jerome Smith did not live at Gulf Mist.…
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove tells News 25 he is on the scene of a homicide investigation at the Gulf Mist Apartment Complex in Gulfport. Reporter Laurene Callander is en route to the scene and will have live reports throughout…
Executions could soon be back in the state of Mississippi. Recently, the fifth circuit court of appeals denied re-hearing a case challenging a drug the state plans to use in lethal injections. Now, State Attorney General Jim Hood could be…
Former state senator Tommy Robertson has been sentenced to ten years in prison by Special Judge Richard McKenzie in Jackson County Circuit Court on embezzlement charges. Robertson will serve two years for embezzling over $379,000 of a $484,000 construction loan…
A hearing for the man accused in the 2014 burning death of Jessica Chambers is being delayed. Quinton Tellis was scheduled to have a hearing July fifth, but his attorneys report it will be pushed back due to a scheduling…
Gulfport police need your help gathering any information you may have on a shooting that reportedly happened Sunday morning. Officers responded to the area of 20th Street after someone called in saying shots were fired. When they arrived, they found…
The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward for information that can lead to the capture of a man who escaped the Hinds County Jail in Raymond. Authorities are still searching for 29-year-old Malcolm Jamal Landfair. Landfair escaped the jail…
The man accused of killing a Gulfport man two years ago entered a guilty plea today. William King entered a guilty plea this morning in Gulfport. Back in February of 2014, a medical call was sent out from a residence…
Early this morning, one man led law enforcement across three counties on a high speed chase. Henry Michael Griffith of Vancleave was arrested this morning on charges of felony eluding. Biloxi police were called to the area of a marina…
The male driver of that car is now in custody. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell tells News 25, it started in Biloxi over an hour ago and traveled through Jackson County and eventually ended on Highway 57 in George County.…
A manhunt continues in Jackson County after authorities say a man jumped into Davis Bayou to flee from a traffic stop. According to Ocean Springs Police Captain William Jackson, 34-year-old Jason Aldrich was stopped by the University of Southern Miss…
Mississippi police say a mother who allegedly abandoned her three children on the side of a highway this week has surrendered to authorities. The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office says Keyundra Peels faces one count of felony child abandonment and two…
Two capital murder suspects have escaped from the Hinds County Jail. The escapees are "Gerome Montreal Moore" and "Malcol Jamal Landfair". They were last seen during a routine head count at 4 a.m. and were discovered missing shortly after. Moore…
Gulfport Police Sergeant Damon McDaniel tells News 25 18 year old Juwan Johnson has been arrested in Lake County, Florida. Johnson was wanted in the June 8 killing of 21 year old Stanton Saunders. Police say Johnson shot Saunders in…
The family of a recent murder victim says they’re hoping for not just justice, but change after Gulfport police identified a suspect this afternoon. Eighteen-year-old Juwan Johnson is wanted for the shooting of 21-year-old Stanton Saunders of Gulfport. The shooting…
Gulfport officials are prepared to put a stop to the spike in crime around their city. District Four Supervisor Kent Jones and Gulfport Councilwoman Ella Holmes Hines will be holding a town hall meeting tomorrow night at 6 pm. The…
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announces an end to the active federal and state investigation into the 1964 murders of three civil rights volunteers in Neshoba County. At a press conference this morning hood said investigators have concluded there are…
Margaret Sanchez has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the stabbing death of a Bourbon Street dancer and mother whose dismembered body washed up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast back in 2012. Margaret Sanchez, of Metairie, Louisiana pleaded…
The Gulfport Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in locating the suspect wanted for armed robbery. On June 18th the Gulfport Police Department responded to family dollar to a reported armed robbery. Police say one black male suspect entered…
Residents with an active bench warrant for arrest in the city of Gulfport have the chance to make it right without fear of arrest. Monday will be bench warrant amnesty day when the city will waive the $678 dollar contempt…
Biloxi police are asking for help identifying this woman. She is wanted in connection with felony credit card fraud, which police say happened at multiple locations in both Biloxi and Gulfport. She is believed to have used a stolen fuel…
A man is recovering after being shot in Gulfport last night. Around 9:30 Gulfport police received a call about shots fired in the west Gulfport area in the neighborhood near 45th avenue. Later police learned a male was being treated…
Four people are behind bars after a bar fight ended in gunfire early this morning in Pascagoula. Lieutenant Doug Adams tells New 25 a fight broke out inside thunder's tavern and then spilled into the parking lot shortly after 2…
Authorities are investigating a possible shooting in the West Gulfport area. Police received a call Thursday night around 9:30 of shots fired in the neighborhood somewhere near 45th Avenue. When police arrived, they did not find anything out of the…