Declaring that “no person should be judged by anything but the content of their character,” President Barack Obama signed a proclamation yesterday designating June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.” Every year since the start of his presidency,…
The Mississippi Highway Patrol says two people were killed and 49 were injured on state and federal highways during the Memorial Day Weekend. The patrol’s enforcement period began Friday evening and ended at Midnight Monday. State troopers investigated 132 crashes…
Governor Phil Bryant says the “secular, progressive world” vented anger at him for signing a bill that would let clerks cite religious beliefs to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Governor Bryant spoke in Washington as the…
The search is over for a teen missing since Sunday afternoon after his body was found in a Mississippi river. Forrest County dive teams and responders searched in and around the Leaf River for the 15-year-old boy. Emergency crews first…
A Greenville man wanted for capital murder could be hiding out here on the Coast. Assistant Chief Michael Merchant tells News 25, Markee Gibson should be considered armed and dangerous. According to authorities, the 19-year-old has relatives in South Mississippi…
Mississippi is reporting its first human case of West Nile Virus for 2016. The state department of health says it is the first in the nation this year. The department said the case of the mosquito-borne virus is in Lamar…
A local filmmaker is addressing the division HB 1523 is causing within the state. “Meanwhile in Mississippi” is a screenplay written by Tammy Devin, a Long Beach native wanting to make a statement to the world that not everyone in…
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant says he intends to join 11 states in suing the Obama administration for telling U.S. public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. Bryant says in a statement…
Controversial House Bill 1523 goes into effect July 1st, but some locals who work in the film industry here on the Coast are putting a plan in motion to try to stop it. News 25’s Shelby Myers joins us from…
Mississippi’s state board of education has decided to switch its stance on transgender restroom use. Just a few weeks ago, Superintendent Dr. Carey Wright announced the department would abide by federal guidelines ordering all public schools in the U.S. to…
Murder charges have been dropped for a father who was jailed for leaving his daughter in a hot car, resulting in her death. Joshua Blunt was jailed and originally charged with second-degree murder after he said he forgot his daughter…
The U.S.S. Portland was christened at Ingalls shipbuilding, but one key city leader was missing. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales was missing from the ceremony. The Portland City Council recently banned city sponsored travel to Mississippi because of House Bill 1523,…
The Mississippi Department of Education has called a special teleconference with all board members to discuss the recent Title IX federal guidance that calls on all public schools in the country to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker…
Mississippi State Superintendent Dr. Carey Wright has now sent out a response to the letter she received yesterday from a concerned group of state representatives. That letter asked her to not adhere to a policy handed down by the department…
Authorities in Mississippi are looking for two thieves following a brazen smash and grab in a small town and it all caught on tape. The two suspects used a stolen truck to ram their way through the front wall of…
A statewide request from the Panola County Sheriff's Department is asking for your help finding two small girls and their father. 35 year old "Samuel Dowden Junior," and his daughters, four year old "Bayley" and two year old "Madeline," were…
Four people are dead after a plane crash this morning in Tupelo. Officials say the small private plane was headed for Virginia and fell from the sky shortly after taking off from the tupelo airport. A total of four people…
The second-ranking leader of the Mississippi Senate has been charged with DUI after a one-vehicle wreck. Republican Sen. Terry Burton of Newton was charged after running a sport utility vehicle off of Interstate 20 and hitting a sign Saturday night…
Texas law enforcement arrested a boyfriend in the case of a Pascagoula native who went missing last weekend. Twenty-seven year-old Jessie Bardwell lived in a town north of Dallas. She had been missing since Sunday. Her parents, who still live…
In a statement today, the Mississippi Department of Education says: “A safe and caring school environment is critical to a student’s ability to learn and achieve” and that it “will adhere to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,…
A woman who grew up in Pascagoula is now missing in Texas and authorities are actively looking for her. 27 year old Jessie Bardwell who now lives in a town north of Dallas has been missing since Sunday. Her parents…
A larger share of Mississippi third graders passed the state’s reading test on the first try this year. The Mississippi Department of Education says 87 percent of 41,000 public school third graders passed the 50 question computerized test. That leaves…
Governor Phil Bryant signs a bill to ban Medicaid from spending money with any facility that performs elective abortions. It’s aimed at blocking state tax dollars from going to Planned Parenthood. The organization’s only Mississippi clinic does not perform abortions…
Eating at a Coast restaurant and wanting to take your beer to go? Soon you’ll be able to. This morning, Governor Phil Bryant signed off on HB 1223 allowing Coast cities to set up entertainment districts where people can walk…