Mayor Billy Skelly is not running for re-election in the City of Long Beach. Tonight, one of the men looking to replace him in office held a meet and greet. Gary Ponthieux has lived in Long Beach for 30 years.…
News 25's Toni Miles interviews Morgan Shiyou, and Juan Tequila about the Taste Of South Mississippi event happening at Salvation Army Kroc Center in Biloxi. Thursday, March 10th Salvation Army Kroc Center in Biloxi 5:30 PM - 8 PM Tickets:…
Things are beginning to take shape at Centennial Plaza in Gulfport in preparation for Mississippi’s big birthday bash starting tomorrow. Today people were out preparing the stages, setting out tents, hanging signs and more. Come tomorrow morning, Centennial Plaza will…
The Biloxi National Cemetery aimed to give several veterans a proper home-going ceremony during its monthly Unattended Veterans Service. The ceremony honors veterans who did not receive a proper service when they were laid to rest at the cemetery. Representatives…
Despite possessing the proper conditions for tornadic development, the severe weather we experienced this afternoon moved through without doing much damage. Apart from a few downed power lines and some minor debris, the most significant damage was done at Centennial…
A Houston attorney says 15 tourists from Texas have filed lawsuits asking more than $250 million in total damages over a train-bus crash that killed four people in Biloxi. Tony Buzbee says in a news release that his clients include…
Biloxi police arrested 21-year-old Rajuan Medrick Williams of Biloxi for possessing a firearm as a felon. Police say they performed a traffic stop on Williams where he gave them false identification and marijuana and a handgun was found in his…
Biloxi police have arrested and charged the man they believe is responsible for a stick up at a Beach Boulevard Broadway Inn Express. Twenty-eight year-old Gulfport resident Larry Skinner is charged with robbery after the clerk of the inn says…
Today a man returning home from deployment in Kuwait surprised his girlfriend at her work in Gulfport at a head start program, but little did she know the other surprise he had planned. News 25’s Taylor Rubach has more on…
Joseph Edgar Foreman, better known as Afroman, is headed back to court to face a lawsuit filed against him and Kress Live by the woman he was seen on video punching during one of his shows in Biloxi in 2015.…
Thomas Stafford, the man accused of strangling 65-year-old Jerry Floyd Kirkendall Sr. to death in Latimer, will soon be back in Mississippi. A Portland, Oregon judge ordered Stafford to be returned to Jackson County to face capital murder charges. The…
Several people across the Coast reported power outages as the bad weather passed through our area. More than 1,000 homes were without power at about 1 p.m. today. Here’s a look at some of the damage near Oak Place and…
This morning’s severe weather left a Harrison County family homeless after lightning struck their attic, starting a fire. Luckily a woman and a five-year-old escaped unhurt. Their home, handed down from generation to generation, was not so lucky. News 25’s…
News 25’s Shelby Myers brings us an update on the weather.
News 25's Laurene Callander speaks with the homeowner of the house struck by lightning on Cemetery Road in Harrison County.
Here is video of a house fire today in Harrison County on Cemetery Road in Gulfport caused by lightning. The fire started at 11:15am when lightning struck the house causing extensive damage. The homeowner was home at the time and…
Better late than never and after 30 years, Popp’s Ferry Causeway Park will finally see a makeover. Governor Phil Bryant steered over four million dollars in BP funds in order to get construction rolling at the park. New additions include…
CSX inspectors will complete a diagnostic review next week of the entire Biloxi railroad corridor. The inspection comes a month after four people died when their tour bus became stuck at the Main Street railroad crossing and was hit by…
The man accused in the slaying of his missing girlfriend, whose decomposing remains were found behind a church in Jackson County, is due in court today for a bond hearing. Fifty-six year-old James Vanlaningham was arrested Tuesday on a first-degree…
News 25’s Hank Davis interviews Harrison County Emergency Management Director Rupert Lacy about today’s severe weather.
You asked and they listened. The Salvation Army expanded its annual Taste of Biloxi to the Taste of South Mississippi. News 25’s Kendra Turley joins us from the start of the event at the Kroc Center.
Waveland police are looking for the man in these snapshots of a surveillance video taken from a house in the Market Street and Waveland Avenue area. Waveland police say the man burglarized the home. If you recognize him or the…
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is offering up a monetary prize for a challenge aimed at cleaning up water here on the Coast. Around 200 beach outfalls along the Coast drain storm water into the Mississippi Sound, according to environmental…
Swinging for success is Pro-Golfer Esteban Toledo’s message to the kids at the Salvation Army Kroc Center’s after school program. Today he taught kids about the importance of their future and a little bit about a back swing. Normally out…