Happening right now across the Coast, the community is taking part in a National Day of Prayer. This is a live look at the National Day of Prayer happening at the Long Beach City Hall. Other days of prayer are being held across the Coast with many starting at noon, locations include Biloxi, Gulfport, Gautier, and Lucedale. Poplarville had a…
A former Pearl River Community College employee is facing child exploitation charges. Megan Boles was arrested by Pearl River County Sheriff’s deputies Tuesday. PRCC officials learned on April 18th that an investigation involving Boles was underway and the college then placed her on administrative leave. After her arrest Tuesday, PRCC terminated her employment. In a statement about the arrest on…
There are new developments in the federal case involving Biloxi City Councilman Robert Deming. Deming pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Wednesday on one of the counts against him. That charge is conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. The maximum penalty is no more than 20 years in prison, up to a $1 million fine, three years…
A few bills are still alive in the state legislature ahead of today’s adjournment. WXXV’s Ethan Krauss has the story from Jackson. Watch the video above to hear more about this story. Categories: Featured, Local News, News Tags: Legislature, state legislative session
Heart Walk Director Tiffany Alsbury and Kimberly Aguillard with presenting sponsor Ingalls Shipbuilding are in studio to tell us about this weekend’s Jackson County Heart Walk. The heart walk takes place Saturday at 8 a.m. at Beach Park in Pascagoula. The American Heart Association is celebrating 100 years. To register, click here. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: american heart association, Jackson…
On this Thursday, take a moment to be thankful and pray if you like. It’s National Day of Prayer, a time to reflect and pray on what’s important to you in this world. There are a number of prayer events happening all over South Mississippi today. WXXV News 25’s Everett Ganier Jr. is live in Long Beach as the city…
It was an exciting Wednesday afternoon for Warrior nation, as two talented student athletes officially put pen to paper to further their academic and athletic careers. The D’Iberville football program will be represented well at the next level as Jaylen Barker and Omar Johnson commit to Kentucky Christian University. Barker represented the Warriors as a strong safety and Johnson spent…
A disturbance along the NE’tern portion of Texas will continue to eject to the NE moving across the extreme NW portion on Mississippi later this afternoon. Friday rain chances area much healthier area wide with showers and storms gradually spreading over the area in association with a weaker disturbance following along within the persistent west-southwesterly flow of this longwave pattern. Impacts…
Thursday will see a fast moving shortwave trough axis push towards our region, firstly through Louisiana from Texas. The majority of the forcing with this system will be shunted to the north of South Mississippi due to the strength of the ridge axis aloft, but weakening band of showers may slightly impact the northwest part of the WXXV viewing area…
Happy sunny May first! After an April month with many changes in temperature, moisture, and feel; a more familiar climatic feel is on the horizon. A fairly strong mid to upper level shortwave ridge axis continues to dominate the Gulf South today and this will continue into the overnight hours. Beneath this mid to upper level ridge, southeast flow off…
News 25’s Ethan Krauss brings us the latest from the Capitol ahead of the state legislature’s adjournment. Categories: Local News, Mississippi State News, News Tags: capital, Capitol, legislation, Legislature, Mississippi
The local Gulfport Kiwanis Club celebrated a birthday for one of its longest tenured members in the club, 95-year-old Charlie Delk. Delk turned 95 on May 2nd and the club celebrated “Kiwanis Charlie Delk Day” at the Great Southern Club on Wednesday afternoon. Delk is an Auburn alum and Navy veteran, moving to the coast in 1968 and joining the…
The Nature Conservancy in Mississippi is currently constructing a 35-acre oyster reef in Bay St. Louis. The Tony Trapani Oyster Reef will serve as a recreational fishing spot for the public, while also offering a landing ground for oysters to populate. Agencies across the Gulf are working to repopulate oysters by creating places for them to attach to and mature. Commercially, a substrate would be…
It’s been over a year since a 200-year-old oak tree was cut down here in Long Beach on Jeff Davis Avenue for an 8-million-dollar development, but there is not much happening on the land. The development of a boutique hotel is still happening but has taken longer than expected after the developers changed the design plans, upgrading to three stories…
Back Bay Mission desperately needs volunteers to keep up with the need in the community. In just under a year, the number of people Back Bay Mission offers services to has doubled. “We were seeing about 300 individuals and families for the food pantry, and now it’s up to 550,” said Dhiana Skrmetti, director of development. “I think we’re going to get really close to 600 soon….
News 25 is joined in studio by Gina Prater from Chandeleur Island Brewing to talk about this weekend’s Chandyfest. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Chandeleur Island, Chandeleur Island Brewing, Chandeleur Island Brewing Co., Chandyfest
The Lady Greyhounds hosted the Oak Grove Warriors for the final game of round one to see who would advance to the next round of playoffs. Kerrigan Scott steps up to the plate and scores the first two runs for the Greyhounds, tying the game 2-2. Ocean Springs would go on to score four runs in the bottom of the…
THIS MONTH MARKS THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF A BILOXI HERO. FALLEN POLICE OFFICER ROBERT MCKEITHEN KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY IN 2019. TODAY, THE COAST SALUTES HIS LIFE BY GIVING LIFE IN A BLOOD DRIVE. WXXV NEWS 25’S EVERETT GANIER, Jr. IS LIVE AT THE BILOXI VISTORS CENTER ALONG BEACH BOULEVARD ON HOW YOU CAN BE…
It was do or die last night for many of our coast teams as they played the deciding matches to see who would advance to the next round. These highlights involve two programs who face each other quite frequently in the playoffs, and this game definitely lived up to that hype. The Gulfport Admirals played host to Oak Grove high…
Dense fog should quickly burn off in the following hours after sunrise and temperatures will rapidly warm into the upper 80s to low 90s area wide. It will be a solid 5-10F above normal area wide. Daytime heating along with a bit more focused lift along a surface boundary near the Atchafalaya Basin will aid in bubbling up of some…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast is officially locked in to the shifting weather patterns that will eventually start trend towards a more late spring and early summer feel. A series of weak and fast moving shortwave troughs will ride up and over the mid to upper level ridge axis from Thursday through Monday. Most of the strongest forcing associated with these…
Ocean Springs high school baseball was looking to advance to the second round of the playoffs in their game on Monday against Petal. With the series tied 1-1, the winner would advance to take on Brandon in round 2. The Greyhounds would go on to defeat Petal 12-4. Categories: Local Sports, Sports, Sports Team Tags: baseball playoffs, Ocean Springs high…
The D’Iberville Lady Warriors are advancing to the next round after completing the comeback against Brandon, winning 5-4. Categories: Local Sports, Sports, Sports Team Tags: D’Iberville high school softball, Softball playoffs
A fairly strong mid to upper level ridge axis will remain in firm control of the area through Wednesday night. Ample subsidence in the mid-level will lead to warmer and drier conditions aloft, and this will help keep a mid-level capping inversion and weak mid- level lapse rates in place. The end result will be a proliferation of fair weather…