By MATT OTT Updated 7:52 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but U.S. layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for unemployment benefits for…
The Mississippi State Department of Health has declared a public health emergency over rising infant mortality rates in the state. Data from 2024 shows the overall rate…
By STEVE LeBLANC Updated 12:18 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island who found online fame as a caring jurist and host of “ Caught in Providence,” has died. He was…
JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV)- The Mississippi Department of Education released the 2024-25 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program results. This year’s results showed increased proficiency in some grades and content areas, but a slight drop in overall proficient and advanced scores. The percentages…
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JACQUELYN MARTIN Updated 12:45 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to join a Thursday evening patrol in the nation’s capital as federal authorities deploy checkpoints around the city and sometimes ask people for their immigration…
WAVELAND, Miss. -- As we approach the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, we take a look at Waveland, the storm’s ground zero, and…
By ALLEN G. BREED and JOHN SEEWER Updated 9:03 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster-sized…
By JAIMIE DING Updated 6:25 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they’ve been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 years…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (AP) — Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was long a campaigner against abortion…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Two people were arrested on felony drug trafficking charges in Harrison County. The arrests stem from an undercover operation by the Harrison County Narcotics Task Force. As a result of the operation, Yarnesia Ro’Shay McClary and…
PICAYUNE, Miss. (WXXV) -- It's in the news every day: drugs making their way into the hands of community members, changing lives forever. "If a community thinks…
The State Department of Corrections says a unit at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has suffered roof damage. This damage comes from a storm on Tuesday night. Officials report no injuries to staff or inmates. Those inmates in the…
GULF COAST, Miss. (WXXV)- Law enforcement agencies across the Coast are kicking off their ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ campaigns. Drivers are seeing…
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV)- The Mississippi Alliance for Child and Community Advocacy hosted day one of its annual leadership conference at IP Resort Casino Wednesday. This two-day…
By MIKE STOBBE Updated 4:14 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)-The Gulfport Police Department arrested a 15-year-old and charged him with one count of possession of a handgun on school property and one count of shooting at a vehicle. The teen is a student at Harrison County School…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)-Hancock Whitney is teaming up with the Mississippi Aquarium, allowing kids 12 and younger into the aquarium for free on select days. This will…
By STAN CHOE, YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT Updated 3:29 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes ended mixed on Wednesday after Nvidia, Palantir and other superstar stocks pared most of their steep losses from the morning. The S&P…
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Updated 2:03 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge who presided over the sex trafficking case against financier Jeffrey Epstein has joined two other judges in rejecting the government’s request to unseal grand…
The Mississippi Public Health Institute’s SHEA Program is putting on a free community baby shower at the end of the month in Gulfport. Here to tell us more are Elizabeth Ozene and…
By KATE PAYNE Updated 9:47 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has posthumously awarded five notable Floridians with the Governor’s Medal of Freedom, one of the state’s highest honors. The awardees include the state’s last Democratic…
Air Force personnel based at Keesler Air Force Base are helping weather officials measure Hurricane Erin. This footage filmed by the Air Force showed the personnel onboard Super Hercules aircraft assigned to…
By MIKE STOBBE Updated 8:14 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Vibrio vulnificus are becoming an annual threat along…
By MATT O’BRIEN Updated 8:08 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The winged passenger ferry gliding over the surface of Narragansett Bay could be a new method of coastal transportation or a new kind of warship. Its…