Christmas in Biloxi
Yesterday we brought you the lighting of the Biloxi Lighthouse. Today, the festivities continue with a kickoff to Christmas on the Water. News 25’s Taylor Rubach is at the Biloxi town green where more fun is set to begin.
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Seabee Memorial Plaza unveiled
This year, Seabees all across the country spent the year celebrating their 75th Anniversary. Today, the Seabees at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport celebrated the special anniversary with a ribbon cutting. The new Seabee Memorial Plaza was unveiled…
Wreath Laying Ceremony preparations
Today, members from all branches of the Armed Forces teamed up with South Mississippi residents and businesses for a special mission to honor our veterans who have been laid to rest at the Biloxi National Cemetery. Ginger Walker retired after…
Mississippi Power rate settlement
Regulators have reached a settlement with Mississippi Power Company on how much customers should pay for the $7.5 billion power plant once touted as the future of coal. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Company is agreeing to lower the price…
Gulfport man arrested for child molestation
A local Gulfport man has been arrested on three felony counts of touching of a child for lustful purposes. Thirty-eight year-old Nicholas Puffer was arrested after the female victim filed a report with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office. The victim,…
17-year-old girl in custody after St. Martin High lockdown
A 17-year-old girl is now in custody after today’s lockdown situation at St. Martin High School. According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, the student is charged with making two separate threats against the school. One was a bomb threat…
Video of suspect holding Dollar Store employee at gunpoint
The Ocean Springs Police Department is searching for a man wanted for an attempted robbery of a Dollar General store on Bienville Boulevard. Surveillance video shows the masked suspect threatening a Dollar General employee with a handgun. Police say the…
Pedestrian hit and killed on Seaway Road identified
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says they have positively identified the man hit and killed at the intersection of Seaway Road and Lorraine Road as 44-year-old Michael Dylan Riley. Hargrove says Riley did not see an oncoming pick-up truck and…
The performance of a lifetime for the West Harrison High Band
Families across the Mississippi Gulf Coast kicked off the holiday season watching the West Harrison High School marching band perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The entire band spent a week in New York City, taking in the sight…
Gulfport mayor’s annual business address
This morning, Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes gave his annual business address to community leaders at the Island View Casino. The theme of the address this morning was ‘concept to reality.’ Mayor Hewes and the rest of the Gulfport city employees…