By DEE-ANN DURBIN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 10:31 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 American businesses and consumers woke up Friday to find the contours of President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda taking shape but without much more clarity on how import taxes on goods from dozens of…
The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution observing the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina later this month. Senate Resolution 344 was approved in the upper chamber unanimously and co-sponsored by Senator Roger Wicker and other southern senators. After the resolution’s…
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Updated 8:42 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the 1,000-year-old remains…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WXXV)- The Pass Christian Fire Department is getting ready to move into a newly renovated space. WXXV News 25’s Jordyn Lassiter has the story.
By LINDSEY BAHR Updated 9:29 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend. Cat Video Fest is a 73-minute, G-rated selection of all things feline —silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic—that’s playing in more…
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WXXV)- The Mississippi Department of Transportation sharing updates to some projects across South Mississippi. Major progress is being done on I-10 in Harrison and Hancock…
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV) -- South Mississippians flocked to Howard Avenue in Biloxi on Friday evening to kick off the month of August with the First Friday Block…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) -- Roy Anderson Corp celebrated 70 years of business with an event at the Mississippi Aquarium for employees and their families on Friday night. Smiling faces…
Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced the start of the Human Trafficking Victims Fund application period. Those funds are available through the office of the AG; service providers are welcome to begin the application process. The program was created in 2020…
By DAMIAN J. TROISE, ALEX VEIGA and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 3:03 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 The stock market had its worst day since May after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WXXV)- The Mississippi Sound will be full of competition and tradition this weekend. The Pass Christian Yacht Club is getting ready to host…
According to money.com, William Carey University is ranked first among four-year schools in Mississippi. Several factors, including quality of education and affordability, were taken into consideration. Here to talk about…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)-There are new details on that fatal accident on Seaway Road and Lorraine that happened Friday afternoon. Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer…
By TED ANTHONY and KEVIN FREKING Updated 4:24 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)-An update to a missing person case in Gulfport Gulfport Police confirmed Jason Bourque was found dead at 12:30 Friday afternoon. There is no word yet on the cause of death or where he was found. Bourque had…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Updated 2:53 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal judge T.S. Ellis III, whose legal scholarship and commanding courtroom presence was evident in numerous high-profile trials, has died after a long illness. He was 85. Ellis…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WXXV)- Ryan Doswell with the Pascagoula Fire Department stopped by to talk about free home inspections being offered right now. During the free home inspection, fire officials…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Updated 2:01 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A stalemate over the pace of confirmations has delayed the Senate’s yearly August recess, for now, as President Donald Trump declares that his nominees “should NOT BE…
By ANDREW DEMILLO and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Updated 9:43 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A 28-year-old teacher who authorities say admitted to fatally stabbing a couple he didn’t know who were hiking with two of their children in an Arkansas state…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 11:20 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from SpaceX. The U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four rocketed…
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College students will now have a new way to get on to the Harrison County campus and its all…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) -- The Mississippi Aquarium is working to rehabilitate the world’s most endangered species of sea turtles right here in Gulfport. We…
By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 9:38 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. The Labor…
