Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer has confirmed that the body found off Keebler Road on Wednesday is 75-year-old Dorothy Burks. Miss Burks body was found in the woods behind a residence on Keebler Road in Lyman, the same road where Burks was last seen from video on a door security camera. Burks was reported missing on March 23rd near 5th…
Elon Musk says there’s one group he wants to get rid of if he is successful in buying Twitter and Old Navy says it won’t raise prices on kids back to school clothes. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report
800 pounds of crawfish served up with some live music and a great cause, all part of the Llama Project. Here to tell us more about it is David Reese, owner of Fly Llama Brewing. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: crawfish boil, Fly Llama Brewing, The Llama Project
The River City Festival is coming up in just a few weeks. Here with all the details on this year’s event is Levi Sims and Christian Hartley. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: moss point, River City Festival
The Jackson County Heart Walk is back in-person this year so you may to want head to Beach Park first thing tomorrow morning and participate. The event helps the American Heart Association raise money and awareness for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Check in time is 8 tomorrow morning at Beach Park in Pascagoula. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Jackson County…
Tomorrow, Coast Young Professionals is hosting its Walking on Water fundraiser. The walk across the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge will start at the Point Cadet Pavilion in Biloxi. The event raises money for Feeding the Gulf Coast, a group that in turn helps people dealing with food insecurity across South Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Walking on Water is tomorrow from 9…
There’s plenty more crawfish to fill you up at the Crawfish Music Festival at the Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. The gates are open from 5 to 11 Friday and again Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 8 p.m. The event features carnival games, exciting rides, and delicious food including some hot boiled crawfish. Tickets can be found on StubHub or…
Long Beach School District will introduce a pre-K early learning program next year, thanks to a grant from the Department of Education. The $750,000 grant will allow Long Beach to add the Pre-K4 classes starting this fall. The Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013 established the Early Learning Collaborative Program, which provided funding to establish, expand, support, and facilitate the…
An upper level ridge is building in and across the southeastern CONUS with the center passing across the CWA today. As a result, onshore flow becomes well established and and 500mb heights rise. Those 2 changes will enhance moderating period that started a couple days ago. The deterministic NBM high forecast falls on the higher side of guidance each day…
An upper level ridge is building in and across the southeastern CONUS with the center passing across the CWA today. As a result, onshore flow becomes well established and and 500mb heights rise. Those 2 changes will enhance moderating period that started a couple days ago. The deterministic NBM high forecast falls on the higher side of guidance each day…
Southeast breezes will diminish temporarily tonight, but our seasonal Bermuda high pressure will extend further into the eastern gulf and across the southeast through Saturday. As a result, onshore flow continues the strong breeze off the water. This will keep our coastal flood advisory in place through most of Friday, with tides still running 1-2 feet above normal. Forecast temps…
According to EPSN, Moss Point alum Devin Booker is out for games three and four in New Orleans with a grade one hamstring strain. Overall, he could miss between two to three weeks, putting his ability to return for the Phoenix Suns’ first round playoff series against the Pelicans very much in doubt. Booker has missed 11 games over the…
Both football and baseball very much still on the table for Ocean Springs quarterback Bray Hubbard. Today, the junior received a football offer from Florida Atlantic, his seventh offer overall and his second this month, just a week removed from landing one with Navy. Currently committed to Southern Miss for baseball, Hubbard also sitting on football offers from USM, Nicholls…
Gulfport softball hosting East Central in a match-up of teams with first-round byes. Lady Admirals win 8-1. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: baseball, High School Baseball, sports
Gulfport baseball hosting Pearl River Central. Good tune up game for a pair of teams with first-round byes. PRC wins 7-6. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: baseball, High School Baseball, sports
Not exactly the College World Series preview we had in mind when both Mississippi State and Ole Miss were ranked in the top five to start the season. Both schools now out of the top 25 altogether, heading into a stretch of four straight head-to-head games. But a lot of real estate at stake this weekend, Rebels hosting Bulldogs for…
Yesterday, a body matching the description of missing 75-year-old Dorothy Jean Burks was found. News 25 spoke with United Cajun Navy President Todd Terrell about the tragic discovery. Terrell says he was contacted by a family member about three weeks into the search and asked if he and his team could assist in the search. He then searched through his…
Our seasonal Bermuda high pressure area will begin extending in and across the southeastern CONUS today through Saturday. As a result, onshore flow continues to become well established, continuing the strong breeze off the gulf. This will keep our coastal flood advisory in place through most of Friday, with tides still running 1-2 feet above normal. Forecast temps aren’t specifically…
Cruisin’ the Coast executives and chairmen held a press conference today to discuss the economic impact from this past year’s event. Statewide, 2021’s Cruisin’ the Coast raked in $36.1 million. This is about $7.5 million more brought in compared to 2016 which brought in $28.6 million. Of the $36.1 million, 33.1 million of it will be staying in the three…
How fast can you paddle? Find out during this year’s Dragon Boat races. The popular United Way fundraiser is back for its seventh year. Teams race in 46-foot long boats to the finish line in various heats. Teams consist of 20 paddlers, a cox who steers the dragon boat from the rear and a drummer who sits at the front….
A six-year-old from Wisconsin got his wish granted to visit a famous Mississippi couple and also visit the Mississippi Aquarium thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Sawyer Doyle is only six-years-old, but has had many complications undergoing four open-heart surgeries due to a heart condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Sawyer’s teacher nominated him for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. His wish was…
With nesting season right around the corner, Audubon partnered with Harrison County Sand Beach Authority and Gulfport High School to restore habitat along the beach in Harrison County. They all came together to install several species of beach grasses into the restoration area in order to stabilize the beach, encourage dune formation, and provide coverage for newly hatched Least Tern…
Mississippi is now joining three other states in getting a blackout plate option, half the plate cost going towards the State Law Enforcement and Firefighter Death Benefits Trust Fund. House Bill 446, which officially created the license plate, was passed by both chambers in Mississippi and was signed by Governor Tate Reeves. Starting July, a plate with a black background…
It was a big day at the Navy Seabee Base in Gulfport because after two years of renovation, the sailors have their dining hall back. The aromatic promise of lunch filled the Colmer Dining Facility for the first time in two years. It was built in 1974 and needed a significant facelift. Shortly after the project started, COVID delayed the…