By MATT O’BRIEN Updated 2:24 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WXXV)- The City of Pass Christian announced the small bridge on Asmard St. is closed until further notice. This comes after the bridge…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)-Harrison County is in preparation mode for a $50 million beach replenishment project. The goal is to put the beach back to its original 235…
By PAUL WISEMAN Updated 9:56 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month as the labor market continued to cool due to uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. Hiring decelerated from 79,000 in July,…
Dhiana Skremetti and Taylor New join us in studio to discuss Musicians with a Mission. Musicians with a Mission takes place Thursday, September 11 at…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WXXV)- An annual event scheduled in Downtown Ocean Springs for next week has been canceled. The Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce Tourism Bureau, in partnership with Mitchell Distributing, announced that the 2025 Bud and Burgers-Tailgate Edition has…
By STAN CHOE Updated 9:58 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are falling Friday as Wall Street questions whether the U.S. job market has slowed by just enough to convince the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates soon to help…
By MATT BROWN and MIKE STOBBE Updated 7:06 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts to pull…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WXXV)- The City of Ocean Springs has lifted the order on alcohol sales. Over Labor Day Weekend, the temporary order had banned alcohol…
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WXXV)- A Prattville, Alabama man has been arrested in connection with the bank robbery in D'Iberville on Wednesday. Thirty-year-old Lane Wesley Blatchford, 30, from Prattville, AL, was arrested on the charge of robbery. On September 3, 2025, at…
D'IBERVILLE, Miss. (WXXV)-On Thursday, D’Iberville High School went into a precautionary lockdown following a call-in threat to the school and local authorities. School administration, staff, and law enforcement immediately responded, and after a thorough investigation, the school was given the…
BILOXI, MISS. (WXXV)- Twenty-four-year-old Dontavis Omar Magee, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty last Thursday, to shooting in the crowded parking lot of Surf Style on Highway 90 in Biloxi during Spring Break in 2023. A Biloxi police officer and four civilians…
LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- The Long Beach Public Library is hosting a Medicare 101 education event. This event will take place September 4 at 1 p.m. At…
LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- Tickets are now on sale for the Taste of Long Beach. This event is one of the most anticipated events of the year. Visitors…
We’re learning more this week about Coast Transit Authority’s decision to phase out its long-time hailing system. The system that previously allowed the public to hail a bus from…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 12:38 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 Here is a look at the largest U.S. jackpots won and the places where the winning tickets were sold: 1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022. The winning ticket was…
By COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY Updated 3:56 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding research grants for Harvard University. U.S. District…
After yet another drawing with no winners, the Powerball jackpot has increased to a historic $1.4 billion. This is now one of the highest jackpots on record. We…
LUCEDALE, Miss. (WXXV)- The George County Board of Supervisors is hosting a ribbon cutting for their brand-new soccer complex. The ribbon cutting takes place Thursday, September 4 at…
By WILL WEISSERT Updated 1:19 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation…
By CURT ANDERSON Updated 12:10 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other…
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV)-The driver of a tractor trailer is wanted in Biloxi for leaving the scene of an accident. Biloxi Police Department say that an unknown white tractor trailer was involved in a crash with a white car on I-10…
By SOPHIE BATES Updated 12:17 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Scott Colom, a Democratic district attorney in Mississippi, is running for U.S. Senate, challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Colom announced his candidacy in a video Wednesday…
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 11:38 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President JD Vance planned to visit Minneapolis on Wednesday to meet with families and victims of a shooting at a Catholic church that killed two schoolchildren and…