A moving company in Gulfport has reached a milestone! In honor of its ten-year anniversary, Two Men and a Truck Gulf Coast held a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce. Throughout the years, the business has won multiple awards including being awarded multiple ‘best moving company’ titles as well as safety awards. After serving in…
It’s Small Business Appreciation Week, a week meant to encourage people to support local shops. It’s hard for us to pick just one small business, so we chose one that showcases small businesses across the nation. Hillyer House has been owned by three generations and has been open for 53 years. After Hurricane Katrina destroyed the original Hillyer House in…
The Kentucky Derby, the greatest two minutes in sports, is happening this Saturday! When you think of the Kentucky Derby, two main things often come to mind: horses and hats! Bob Mahoney is the owner of Mary Mahoney’s and he’s also a big fan of horse races. He says he fell in love with the sport growing up in Biloxi…
International Firefighter’s Day is marked every year on May 4th to honor and pay tribute to the great work done by firefighters. On January 4th, 1999, a proposal was emailed around the world by Lt. JJ Edmondson from Victoria, Australia to have a day devoted to firefighters. The fourth of May was selected because it is St. Florian’s Day who…
May is National Foster Care Month which is a time to celebrate caregivers and the system that makes foster care possible. Every two minutes a child is placed into the foster care system. Currently, there are more than 400,000 children in the system at any given time. In Mississippi, there are approximately 4,000 children in foster care. Elijah’s Closet, a…
City leaders and community members came together at Biloxi City Hall to observe the National Day of Prayer. Created in 1952 by Congress, National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation. In the City of Biloxi, the day has been celebrated at City…
Earlier this week, Bay-Waveland School Superintendent Dr. Sandra Reed informed parents that a male Bay Middle School student was caught recording a student using the girl’s restroom. According to the victim’s mother’s Facebook account, the student allegedly received a message from another student to let her know about the recording. The mother says she believes the recorder was hiding in…
Google rolls out an alternative to the password and the Federal Reserve raises interest rates by a quarter percent but the question remains is that the last hike? Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report
Nataliya Molsbee and her talented students will be performing at two events on the Coast tomorrow and Saturday. It’s all to raise awareness for the ongoing war in Ukraine and those who have been impacted by all the fighting. Nataliya and one of her students, Corrine Kuhner, is in studio with more. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Sound of Spring Concert,…
The 44th Spring Art Exhibit and Sale is now underway in Downtown Pascagoula. Judy Holbert with the Singing River Art Association is in studio with more. The exhibit runs until May 13th and is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the River Art Gallery located at 630 Delmas Avenue in Pascagoula. For more information call…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Wednesday released what he said were all of his text and email messages related to a welfare fraud investigation — including money spent on building a university volleyball arena that was pushed by NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre. The 436 pages of messages had several that already appeared in…
Hurricane season is less than a month away. Smart Home America out of Mobile was in Pass Christian to talk with residents about ways to fortify their homes. It was a chance to learn about fortified construction, a higher level of standard that can reduce the risk of water entering your home by 95 percent. It also nearly doubles the…
An upper level high pressure will build in across the middle of the country from the Gulf Coast all the way to the Northern Plains. It will start to feel like summer with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees. Not a particularly large spread in forecast temps, however, models are trending on the warmer side of guidance…
Haeleigh Stamper, De’Arreis SmithMore information has become available about how the community can help the families of the teens who were killed and injured in a shooting at a post-prom party in Bay St. Louis over the weekend. Funeral arrangements for 16-year-old Haeleigh Stamper were announced. Visitation is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at Bayou Talla Fellowship in the…
A broad longwave disturbance is currently encompassing the eastern 1/3 of the country and will continue east today and tomorrow. Upper level high pressure will build in across the middle of the country from the Gulf Coast all the way to the Northern Plains. It will start to feel like summer with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees….
After failing to crack double digit wins during his first three seasons as Southern Miss head men’s basketball coach, Jay Ladner managed to win more games in year four than he did those first three years combined. The end result: job security. Today, USM announced a four-year contract extension with Ladner, who led the Golden Eagles to the Sun Belt…
This week’s Student Athlete of the Week is Hancock softball sophomore Teegan DeWitt and she can spin the ball just as well as she can hit it. Hancock’s Teegan DeWitt has played softball ever since she could pick up a bat and all that time spent on the diamond is really starting to pay off. Dewitt plays first base for…
In the Double A ranks, Biloxi alum Colt Keith swatting his fourth home run of the season yesterday as he continues to make his case to get the call up to the Majors later this year. Through 21 games for the Erie Seawolves, the former Indian also has four doubles, nine runs scored, and 14 runs batted in while hitting…
Biloxi Shuckers on the road this week. Game two against the Montgomery Biscuits. Shuckers lose in extra innings, taking a 3-2 lead in the top of the 11th, only to give up two runs in the bottom half. Biscuits win 4-3. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: baseball, Biloxi Shuckers, sports
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is sending both men’s and women’s programs to the NJCAA Tournament in McKinney, Texas. With the exception of a singular regular season loss to Jones College, both the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs went undefeated against teams from Mississippi leading up to the Region 23 Tournament. The men ran the table en route to the Region…
Some more local state champions crowned! Yesterday we featured St. Patrick boys golf and Ocean Springs girls golf. Today, it’s Gautier boys golf, going back-to-back as 5A state champs, led by Peyton Russell shooting 10 under par. St. Stanislaus and Our Lady Academy tennis team taking home the gold as the 3A state champions with a 6-1 win over Booneville,…
Last week, D’Iberville baseball senior standout Dennis Krabbe signed a D1 scholarship with Mississippi Valley State. As a two-way player, Krabbe is expected to play first base and pitch from the left side, just like he’s been doing for the Warriors as one of four DHS players with a home run this season. Krabbe has also spent time with the…
D’Iberville High School Head Girls Soccer Coach Paul Langham has been named the recipient of the ninth annual Dora Delahoussaye Memorial Drawdown worth $2,000. Her ‘Catch-a-Break’ Cancer Foundation benefits one person each year through a silent and live auction set to take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, August 5th at the D’Iberville Community Club. Langham has been battling stage 4…
Temperatures will be cool again overnight with mainly clear skies for the area. Dry air remains in place as high pressure has remained in control of the weather pattern. However, changes are on the horizon beginning tomorrow. Moisture will be on the increase as the wind flow will shift to a southerly one. Clouds will begin to stream in during…