Long Beach High School’s TV production class received a $2,500 Sparklight ‘Dream Bigger’ grant to go towards the purchase of additional professional-grade video cameras for their daily LBTV broadcast. More than 100 schools and organizations from communities in the 21 states Sparklight serves submitted entries outlining how the award would be used to fund their STEM projects and how the…
It was a day of celebration for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Harrison County campus. Faculty, staff, and family members gathered at the Hospitality Resort Management Center for the Harrison County campus awards ceremonies. Students, strong in academics, received awards from the six different schools MGCCC has to offer and being a member of the honors college. Aside from…
Biloxi Mayor ‘FoFo’ Gilich presented a proclamation naming April 30th to be National Therapy Dog Day. The dogs play an essential role in improving human health and well-being through human-animal bonds. Pet Partners animal teams make millions of visits per year to hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and libraries. The dogs interact with a variety of people such as veterans, students…
The City of D’Iberville held its annual State of the City to update the community on what the city has accomplished and what’s ahead. Community members and city leaders gathered at the D’Iberville Community Center to hear all about the progress the city is making and to recognize those making a difference within the community. The city is developing new…
We’re just over a month away from hurricane season and Governor Reeves has named April 30th through May 6th Hurricane Preparedness Week. Hurricane season starts June 1st and emergency management agencies are starting their preparations and they advise you to do the same. Each day next week, these agencies will be posting a guide to prepare for emergencies. This includes…
The Container Store will accept Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupons through May and Disney has now sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report
This weekend, people will be ‘Wiggin’ out for Cancer.’ Everyone is invited to lace up for this benefit walk in Long Beach. JoAn Nicely, founder of Pink Heart Funds, joins me this morning with more on the event. The walk takes place Saturday, April 29th at 8 a.m. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Ribbon Walk, Wiggin’ out for Cancer
Holly Brand hitting all the high notes and then some on The Voice! This Meridian native has made quite a name for herself and we are all rooting for her. Holly is on fire right now after making it through the knockout round. Holly joins News 25 to discuss her journey on The Voice! Categories: Community Headlines Tags: holly brand,…
Several Coast leaders met this morning to discuss regional solutions to acquiring a skilled workforce in the business realm. The Gulf Coast Business Council held its general membership meeting at the Knight Nonprofit Center. The availability of a highly skilled workforce is a key issue for the state and the Gulf Coast region. The purpose of Accelerate Mississippi is to…
An update on the investigation into a substitute teacher arrested on sex charges. Twenty-one-year-old Keshawn Belcher was arrested Wednesday and charged with child exploitation and touching a child for lustful purposes. According to the Jackson County jail docket this morning, he also has a bond revocation and a charge of child pornography rather than child exploitation. Belcher was hired as…
As an area of low pressure continues to drag a cold front through the region, isolated t-storms will continue this afternoon but begin to diminish late afternoon. The energy will depart to the NE with showers/t-storms moving east late afternoon and this evening Slightly more uncertainty for afternoon time frame as some models suggest a secondary swath of rain moving…
A weakening upper low currently moving through the Central Plains will continue east across the lower/mid-Mississippi Valley this afternoon and evening. With increasing low level moisture, cooling in the mid-upper levels, and still warm temps at the surface, there will be a steady increase in instability. Model soundings show minimal low level shear but sufficient mid-level shear to possibly support…
The only other Picayune player to complete a pass this season, three-star sophomore sensation Darrell Smith is the recipient of his first SEC offer from Ole Miss and his third overall. The others being Boston College and UNLV. Smith was lightning in a bottle for the Maroon Tide in 2022, averaging more than 13 yards per carry while racking up…
The 2022-2023 school year has almost come and gone and yet somehow, we haven’t yet featured someone from the 5A football state champion Picayune Maroon Tide. That’s all changing tonight as we check in with dual-sport standout Brady Robertson who is gunning for yet another ring to close out his junior year. As a kid, Picayune’s Brady Robertson always had…
Special congratulations to Pearl River Community College softball ace Brinson Anne Rogers who keeps rewriting the record books in Poplarville. Yesterday, the right-handed redshirt sophomore dialed it up once again in the circle, eclipsing 500 career strikeouts in the first inning of yesterday’s game two loss at Jones College. Win or lose, simply incredible, currently eighth in the nation with…
The Mississippi High School Activities Association alongside the Mississippi Association of Coaches have even more hardware to give out this spring upon the creation of the Mr. Baseball and Miss Softball awards going to the top players in Mississippi. This is for classifications 1A through 6A so 12 awards total and 14 starting next year after the addition of Class…
Dating back to the 2022 Major League Baseball All-Star Break, no one has a lower earned run average than Chicago Cubs pitcher Justin Steele out of George County High School. His dominance continued yesterday in a 6-0 win over the San Diego Padres in which the former Rebel went five-and-a-third innings scoreless, lowering his ERA to 1.19 through his first…
St. Martin alum Gabe Showalter is officially in the transfer portal, announcing his decision to leave Texas Tech following his commitment back in January. The former Yellowjacket showed out during his one year at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in 2022, knocking home eight out of his ten field goal attempts while converting 42 of 43 PATs. Showalter and his…
The New Orleans Saints should be pretty busy as always, heading into draft weekend with eight picks at their disposal, starting with that Sean Payton pick in the first round at 29 overall. They pick twice more on Friday, 40th overall in the second round and 71st overall in the third round. By the time day three rolls around, the…
Gulfport High School alum Derick Hall has come a long way since his signing day ceremony all the way back on December 19th, 2018. From then to now, the former Admiral became a four-year star with his Auburn Tigers, now less than 24 hours away from the rest of his life, if all goes according to plan. A potential first…
Cloud coverage will increase tonight ahead of a complex of thunderstorms that will move in. Expect rain to move in around daybreak tomorrow and persist through much of the day. Rain will taper off in the afternoon and some clearing can be expected towards the evening. There is a Level 2 of 5 threat for severe thunderstorms in place for…
Seashore Highlands in Gulfport celebrated its tenth anniversary with a barbecue. Not only did the retirement community celebrate an anniversary, but also the Coast now has its very first green house. The green house serves ten elders who are still under the care of nurses. It’s a home with individual bedrooms and bathrooms, a huge living and kitchen area, and…
The world-famous Budweiser Clydesdale horses returned to the Mississippi Coast to join in on some coastal parades. Today, the horses traveled down to Bay St. Louis where eight of them were hooked up to the classic Budweiser wagon and rolled down the municipal harbor to the train depot. This parade was only one of several locations the horses are making…
Mad Potter’s Garden Club hosted a morning foraging expedition on the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art campus. Guests were able to enjoy sampling food grown in the community garden, get a tour of the foraging garden established at the museum, and learn about the native plants that were used by Native Americans. Guests learned about what they can and cannot eat…