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Overnight Fire Destroys Ocean Springs Home

An overnight fire ripped through an Ocean Springs home, leaving the three residents with little to no belongings. News 25’s Laurene Callander was on the scene and has the details. Carina Guzman thought she heard sirens around her home early…

Mississippi Power Sends Help to North Carolina

Mississippi Power is sending crews today to North Carolina to assist Duke Energy with outages from the icy winter storm. A crew of 90 linemen and support personnel left early this morning from staging areas across the company’s service territory.

Tornado Damage in Lamar County

Last night’s storm that moved through Lamar County has been confirmed as a tornado. The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-2 tornado touched down. A lot of the damage was reported on Rocky Branch Road, Old Salt Road and…

100th Anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize Award

USM’s Gulf Park campus commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Award by hosting several prize winners for a panel discussion. The panel featured former editor of the Sun Herald Stan Tiner, Gulfport native Natasha Tretheway and journalism professor and…

Family Literacy Program

Climb CDC’s Family Enrichment Program and Goodwill of South Mississippi are teaming up to fight illiteracy on the Coast. The United State Department of Education found 29 percent of adults over the age of 16 read at an eighth grade…

Severe Weather Hits Mississippi

Severe weather has hit the Coast. Emergency Management Director in Harrison County Rupert Lacy says to make sure to be paying attention to the weather because high winds, heavy rain and possible tornado watches could be in effect. If possible,…

Shooting at a Barber College in Waveland

Police have now identified the gunman in the Waveland shooting that took place earlier this afternoon at a barber college. News 25’s Kendra Turley brings us the latest from that investigation. What was supposed to be a typical day of…

92-year-old Vet Runs Cross Country

If you need motivation to run that extra mile at the gym, we have some motivation for you. A 92-year-old veteran is running cross country to raise money to reserve a World War II vessel that he helped bring back…

State of the VA system

The Veteran’s Affairs System is notorious for long wait times. By his own admission, the director of the Gulf Coast Veteran’s Health Care System says 2015 was a rough year. As Katarina Luketich reports, in today’s State of the System…

Judge Hilburn Responds

The Mississippi Supreme Court, in an order filed Tuesday, called for responses to a motion for emergency omnibus relief in the case of Cynthia N. Almond v. Singing River Health System Employee’s Retirement Plan and Trust.

92 Year Old Runs Coast To Coast

News 25's Laurene Callander interviews Ernie Andrus about his run coast to coast to raise money for the LST 325 Ship Memorial fund.

PCA Rodeo Finals

Saddle up Gulf Coast, the Professional Cowboy Association is hosting the rodeo finals at the Coast Coliseum starting tonight at 6 p.m.

Solar Paneled Lights for Beauvoir

While pitch black cemeteries are perfect for a good scare, they’re not as great when you’re trying to host events in them. That’s the problem that Beauvoir has been facing for years.

Students Going to D.C. to March for Life

This Friday will mark the 43rd consecutive year in which people from all over the United States have marched in the nation’s capital in protest of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion.

Pet Slumber Party Program

Many of us love going to see the dogs and cats at the Humane Society but what if you could take one home for a night without the obligation of adopting?