Colt Keith hits second MLB Spring training home run

Biloxi High School alum Colt Keith continues to mash in his first taste of Major League spring training, hitting his second home run today for the Tigers, 427-foot solo shot to the bullpen in right center. The former Indian was drafted in the fifth round by Detroit back in 2020. Keith is scorching hot at the plate, hitting .353 during…

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State vs. Creighton

On Wednesday night, the Mississippi State women’s basketball team won its first NCAA Tournament game since 2019. Since the Lady Bulldogs are already there, why not win another one? 11-seed MSU taking on 6-seed Creighton in South Bend, Indiana. Lady Bulldogs win big, 81-66 final. They’re bracket busting all the way to the round of 32. Mississippi State takes on…

St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl in Ocean Springs

The streets of Ocean Springs were filled with green and a little bit of gold as locals continue to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The festivities lasted all day long in the City of Discovery and it’s ending with a street-wide party. Twenty-one different businesses in Downtown Ocean Springs participated in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl. Hundreds of people…

New hotel coming to the City of Biloxi

The City of Biloxi announced plans to build a new hotel at the State of the City address. The Tullis Gardens Hotel is named after the original 19th century Tullis-Toledano Manor, which was washed away during Hurricane Katrina. The hotel will be 11 stories high, include a restaurant deck, and gardens. The building will incorporate a lot of architecture Biloxi…

Big banks falling while local banks stand strong

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have both collapsed, proving that you are never too big to fail, but what does that mean for our local banks in South Mississippi? Recent bank failures may have you wondering if your local bank is still a safe haven for your hard-earned money. News 25 spoke with officials at Keesler Federal Credit Union…

3/17 – Brittany’s “Wet End To The Workweek” Friday Evening Forecast

Cold front has cleared pretty much all land areas in Louisiana and Mississippi and continues to push eastward through the coastal waters. A broad band of light to moderate showers is still affecting southern Mississippi with spottier showers across southeastern Louisiana. These showers will continue to progress eastward as well and the vast majority of the land area should be…

St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl in Downtown Ocean Springs

People in Downtown Ocean Springs aren’t letting a little rain get in their way of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. News 25’s Ansley Brent takes us to a sea of green for the St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Ocean Springs, st. patrick’s day, St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl

College students volunteer for Spring Break with a Purpose

Some college students like to go to the beach or maybe hit the mountains for spring break, but for some students, they use their time to give back. Phyllis Madden’s prayers of fixing up her house were finally answered after waiting five years. A grandmother who is raising her three grandchildren will have a newly renovated house inside and out…

Students attend Career and Technical Education event at MGCCC

More than 400 high school students attended the Experience CTE for the 21st Century event on the MGCCC Harrison County campus. At the event, students learned about the more than 50 careers and technical education programs the college offers in a one and two year format. These CTE programs provide students the opportunity to enter a career sooner and find…

Memorial Health System welcomes new resident physicians

Match Day is here and Memorial Health System Graduate Medical Education welcomed its 2023 family medicine and internal medicine resident physicians. Match Day marks the day when eagerly awaiting medical gradates find out which residency program they have matched with to begin their post-graduate training. Memorials’ graduate medical education program provides progressive training and invaluable experience. At the Match Day,…

St. Joseph Catholic Church preparing St. Joseph Altar

A St. Joseph Altar is an offering of love, labor, and sacrifice, honoring the patron saint of the Sicilians and the universal church. Its origin begins in Sicily during a time of drought and famine. In dire need, people turned to St. Joseph for a helping hand and prayer. When it rained and crops began to bear fruit, an altar…

Morning Business Report: March 17th, 2023

More than half of Americans hire a professional to help them with their taxes and weekly jobless claims still show a tight labor market. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report

St. Patrick’s Day Parade rolling through Waveland Saturday

On Saturday, Waveland will keep the St. Paddy’s Day fun going with a St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the heart of the city. The parade rolls at 1 p.m. It begins at the corner of Bienville Drive and North Beach Boulevard and follows a route that takes the fun through Nicholson, Central, and Coleman Avenues before ending at Elwood Bourgeois…

St. Patrick’s Day events around the Coast

It’s St. Patrick’s Day and events are going on today all around the Coast to help you celebrate the patron saint of Ireland. Ocean Springs has dining and shopping deals as well as a pub crawl that starts at 4 this afternoon. Pascagoula will be parading downtown tonight at 7 p.m. for O’Blarney’s Parade. The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum will have beer…

Visitation for beloved St. Alphonsus music teacher Kathy Mangin

Tonight, students, past and present, will gather to pay their respects to Kathy Mangin, a beloved music and choir director at St. Alphonsus Catholic School. She used her talents to inspire students for more than three decades. She died Saturday in a car accident in Ocean Springs at the age of 66. Visitation for Kathy is today from 5 p.m….

Jacob Aycock named Stone head football coach

Stone High School has a new man for the job to take over the football program in the form of Jacob Aycock. Aycock has been approved by the school board to be the successor to John Feaster, now the head coach at Moss Point. The Tomcats are coming off their best season in over 30 years and Aycock has seen…

3/16 – Brittany’s “Rain Free For Now” Thursday Night Forecast

All is quiet now as we await our next weather system. The upper trough is currently over the Dakotas with a weaker shortwave/jet type feature moving across the southern states. The surface low is up in MO with a front stretched back to the southwest. Locally, clouds will continue to increase tonight with temps increasing initially as the southerly return…

NCAA Women’s March Madness: Mississippi State vs. Illinois

March Madness officially underway for the Mississippi State women’s basketball team, taking down Illinois last night 70-56. This  was MSU’s first NCAA tournament win since 2019. The Lady Bulldogs found a spark in the third quarter, outscoring the fighting Illini 21-8 during that stretch. Guard Anastasia Hayes said, “Defense turned into offense and we were just playing and having fun….

Battle at the Beach: St. Martin vs. McGill-Toolen (AL)

The Biloxi Shuckers are less than a month away from the start of their 2023 season, but between the Hancock Whitney Classic and Battle at the Beach, MGM Park is still getting plenty of use this week before the home town team takes their stadium back. After a 9-0 win for Ocean Springs over Lafayette, St. Martin takes on McGill-Toolen…