In late 2016, the Port of Gulfport broke ground on their property to build a $12.2 million marine research center for the University of Southern Mississippi. Now they are just weeks away from completing the project. School of Ocean Science…
Prom season is quickly approaching sometimes a time when authorities see a rise in student mischief and high school pranks. One prank has gone a little too far in Long Beach lately and neighbors aren’t happy about it. Old East…
Operation Coastal Cleanup has wrapped and the results are in. The two day operation, carried out on Monday and Tuesday, was a joint law enforcement effort to ensure registration compliance of convicted sex offenders throughout Harrison County. Two hundred and…
The total number of raccoons carrying the viral disease that has recently broke out in Long Beach keeps growing. Long Beach Animal Control has now collected more than one hundred raccoons with distemper throughout the city. Animal control officers were…
BP settlement legislation, House Bill 1185, heads to conference committee of the Mississippi House and Senate. Six business organizations like the Mississippi Chamber of Commerce and the Gulf Coast Business Council approved a letter with the business community’s desired outcomes…
Today students at Gulfport High School expressed themselves in the form of crazy socks, recognizing that everyone is different and that’s okay. It’s part of how Gulfport is honoring National Youth Violence Awareness Week. Each day the students are doing…
This year marks the first year Rapiscan Systems has been named the title sponsor for the golf tournament previously known as the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic. Rapiscan has signed on to sponsor the event for at least the next three…
On Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 Sheriff Troy Peterson announced the arrest of 29-year-old Luis Alberto Jiminez, 31-year-old Alejandro Lorene Martinez, and 28-year-old Yaudel Pina, all of Texas, on four felony counts of possession of a scanning device. On March 21,…
Today, former Simon City Royal 32-year-old John Wayne Clark of Biloxi was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised released for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On May 7th 2015, DEA…
The two people that were killed following an accident on Highway 614 near Otis Cooper Road in Jackson County this morning have been identified. Fifty-four year-old Kevin Hyatt from Mobile was traveling west on Highway 614. His car crossed the…