Christmas in Biloxi
Yesterday we brought you the lighting of the Biloxi Lighthouse. Today, the festivities continue with a kickoff to Christmas on the Water. News 25’s Taylor Rubach is at the Biloxi town green where more fun is set to begin.
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Seabee Memorial Plaza unveiled
This year, Seabees all across the country spent the year celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Today, the Seabees at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport celebrated the special anniversary with a ribbon cutting. The new Seabee Memorial Plaza was unveiled…
Wreath Laying Ceremony preparations
Today, members from all branches of the Armed Forces teamed up with South Mississippi residents and businesses for a special mission to honor our veterans who have been laid to rest at the Biloxi National Cemetery. Ginger Walker retired after…
Mississippi Power rate settlement
Regulators have reached a settlement with Mississippi Power Company on how much customers should pay for the $7.5 billion power plant once touted as the future of coal. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Company is agreeing to lower the price…
Gulfport man arrested for child molestation
A local Gulfport man has been arrested on three felony counts of touching of a child for lustful purposes. Thirty-eight year-old Nicholas Puffer was arrested after the female victim filed a report with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office. The victim,…
17-year-old girl in custody after St. Martin High lockdown
A 17-year-old girl is now in custody after today’s lockdown situation at St. Martin High School. According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, the student is charged with making two separate threats against the school. One was a bomb threat…
Video of suspect holding Dollar Store employee at gunpoint
The Ocean Springs Police Department is searching for a man wanted for an attempted robbery of a Dollar General store on Bienville Boulevard. Surveillance video shows the masked suspect threatening a Dollar General employee with a handgun. Police say the…
Pedestrian hit and killed on Seaway Road identified
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says they have positively identified the man hit and killed at the intersection of Seaway Road and Lorraine Road as 44-year-old Michael Dylan Riley. Hargrove says Riley did not see an oncoming pick-up truck and…
The performance of a lifetime for the West Harrison High Band
Families across the Mississippi Gulf Coast kicked off the holiday season watching the West Harrison High School marching band perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The entire band spent a week in New York City, taking in the sight…
Gulfport mayor’s annual business address
This morning, Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes gave his annual business address to community leaders at the Island View Casino. The theme of the address this morning was ‘concept to reality.’ Mayor Hewes and the rest of the Gulfport city employees…
Shooting in Gulfport injures woman
Gulfport police are investigating an early morning shooting that left multiple people with non-life threatening injuries. The shooting happened at about 3:45 this morning on the 3000 block of 31st Street near F Avenue. At the scene, officers found a…
Armed robbery suspect on the loose in Ocean Springs
The Ocean Springs Police Department is searching for a man wanted for an attempted robbery of a Dollar General Store on Bienville Boulevard. Police say the masked man entered the store with a handgun, wearing a black beanie, white gloves,…
The Very Mary Christmas Spectacular
News 25's Kristen Durand interviews Stacy Howell and Gram Rea about the Very Mary Christmas Spectacular at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center December 1st at 8 pm, tickets are $25 and for more information please visit www.themaryc.org.
NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet 2017
News 25's Hank Davis interviews Frank Magee and Valerie Hill about the NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet 2017 on Saturday December 9th @ 6 p.m. at the Courtyard Mariott Gulfport Beachfront, 1600 East Beach Boulevard tickets are $50.
Christmas Parade and Festival
Hank Davis interviews Santa and Latonja Ervin about the Christmas Parade and Festival in Bay St. Louis Saturday Dec. 2nd 2017 in the Depot District 11 am to 3 pm.
Annual Bow Replacing & Wreath Laying
News 25's Toni Miles interviews Kevin Cuttill and Chad Redman about the annual bow replacing & wreath laying at the Biloxi National Cemetery to honoring our veterans.
Mayor's Annual 2017 Business Address
News 25's Caroline Eaker tells us more about Mayor Billy Hewes annual Business Address in Gulfport.
Looking Back On the Hurricanes Big Day!
News 25's Kristen Durand interviews Tim Garrett about the New York City's Parade.
Jan and Pieper Niolen Teacher of the Year
Today, the Ocean Springs Education Foundation presented the Jan and Pieper Niolen Teacher of the Year award. Students and staff filled the Ocean Springs Middle School auditorium for what they thought would be a winter pep rally. A few minutes…
Ex-college student sentenced in hit and run
Nearly two years ago, Scott McGuire, a federal agent with the Homeland Security Investigation Unit in New Orleans and Gulfport native, was struck by a drunk driver in Miami just before getting into a taxi. The driver, then 21-year-old Jordana…
Lighting of The Biloxi Lighthouse
News 25's Bryan Kennedy interviews Bill Raymond about the lighting of The Biloxi Lighthouse, Thursday December 1st from 5:30 pm to 7 pm.
Arrested for taking away a motor vehicle
Twenty-four year-old Robert Petty of Magee, Mississippi was arrested on a charge of taking away a motor vehicle after a car was reported stolen from the Porter Avenue Service Drive. D’Iberville police located the vehicle within thirty minutes of the…
Cigarette shoplifter arrested
The so-called cigarette shoplifter in George County has been arrested. Twenty-four year-old Amos Rudolph Jr. of Mobile is currently in the Mobile Metro Jail awaiting extradition to George County on four felony shoplifting charges including one charge in Lucedale. This…
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office makes Jason a deputy for the day
Move over Mike Ezell, there’s a new sheriff in town or deputy we should say. Today, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office made a dream come true for one special guy. According to a Facebook post by Dana Sanders, Jackson County’s…