By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi is running behind many other states in deciding how to spend billions of federal dollars for pandemic relief. Congress allocated $1.8 billion for Mississippi through the American Rescue Plan, and the…
HOUSTON (AP) — Investigators Sunday worked to determine how eight people died in a crush of fans at a Houston music festival, as families mourned the dead and concertgoers recounted the horror and confusion of being trapped in the crowd.…
Today the team at Magic 93.7 and News 25’s Lori Buhring got together to flip on Christmas music on their radio station and spread some…
The Peter Anderson Festival takes place this weekend. Today, we are honoring its origins. Master Potter Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery in 1928 and today,…
The Jackson County School District is going back to the drawing board on potential facility upgrades after voters rejected a bond proposal earlier this year. The Jackson…
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has joined two other attorney generals in filing a lawsuit to stop President Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Governor Reeves said he…
Today MSDH is reporting an additional 514 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 14 deaths. Seven of these deaths occurred between October 22 and November 4, and an additional seven deaths occurred between August 8 and October 22, identified from…
This morning, Gautier High School hosted their annual Veterans Day Breakfast. Students honored those who served our country. Flags flew high in the sky as veterans, community members, students,…
Soon children ages five to 11 will be getting their COVID shots around the Coast. The Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccines which will come in vials with one-third…
A teacher shortage has been affecting our state. Today, William Carey University held its first ever teacher shortage conference at the Tradition Campus in Biloxi. For over five years,…
On Wednesday, November 3, 2021, the Biloxi Public Schools Board of Trustees held a special called board meeting. During that meeting they discussed and reviewed Covid-19 transmission data and Covid-19 procedures. Data shows a drastic decline in the number of…
One Coast school district decided there’s no time like the present to remind our healthcare heroes how valued they are. Students and staff of the…
The Gulfport Police Department is looking for men and women with a penchant for service amid staffing shortages along the Coast. The department will start officers with no experience at…
Today MSDH is reporting an additional 381 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and no deaths. Mississippi's total of COVID-19 cases is now 506,042, with 10,134 deaths.
To help learn about mental health, students at Gulfport High School decided to invite some furry friends to class today. Students were greeted with wagging…
The sudden closure of a motel in Pascagoula left more than a dozen families scrambling to find housing. Residents living at the Crown Inn were given short notice before…
Vaccine mandate protests have been popping up along the Coast and employees at Ingalls Shipbuilding holding the latest one today. Ingalls employees, their friends, and families took a stand…
Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith announced they have joined a congressional review act challenge to stop President Biden’s vaccine mandate. The mandate says private businesses…
New numbers from the state health department today show fewer than 400 COVID cases were reported in the last 24 hours. There are an additional 395…
Governor Tate Reeves is speaking out against federal mandates for COVID vaccines, saying its nothing short of ‘tyranny.’ He made a post on Facebook Tuesday telling people he’s…
A heartbreaking update on the Ingalls worker who was injured on the job last week. Randy Wade, a tank tester at the Pascagoula shipyard, has died from his injuries.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Overall enrollment in Mississippi’s public universities dropped by less than 1% in the past year, according to figures released Tuesday by the universities’ board of trustees. A total of 76,510 students are studying at Mississippi public universities…
Warriors known as Abby’s Army came together for Abby Bosarge’s funeral and ended the day with a lantern release on the beach in Bosarge’s hometown of Pass Christian. The 18-year-old, whose…
Polls were opened in Hancock and Jackson County today as voters decided a handful of county offices up for grabs. For Jackson County Board of Supervisors District 2: Sherwood Bradford Sr: 22.14% Mitch Ellerby: 24.36% Richard McBride: 1.28% Ennit Morris:…