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More auto insurance companies offering refunds

More auto insurance companies are offering customers refunds. Big name insurance companies are following the lead of Allstate which announced $600 million in refunds to its customers earlier this week. Now, Progressive customers will be credited 20 percent of their…

Warmer temperatures will not prevent COVID-19

Many people think that warm weather will kill the Coronavirus, but the World Health Organization says otherwise. Exposing yourself to the sun or to warm weather does not prevent the Coronavirus disease. WHO says you can catch COVID-19 no matter…

Scarlet Pearl Casino shows love to the Coast community

‘Closed doors and open hearts,’ that’s the message the Scarlet Pearl Casino is sending to the community. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, most of the country is shutdown including our Coast casinos, but that hasn’t stopped many of them from…

US casino workers: Pay us through the shutdown

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Casino workers across the country are calling on the gambling industry to pay its laid-off workers their full salary and benefits for the duration of the shutdown necessitated by the Coronavirus. In an online conference…

Biloxi PD: Property crimes down 51 percent

The Biloxi Police Department reports a 51 percent drop in property crimes compared to this time last year and the decrease is 38 percent below the five-year average. The nightly curfew and additional police patrols, says Biloxi Police Chief John…