The COVID-19 booster shots are now officially available along the Coast to anyone eligible. Retail pharmacies including CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart, as well as local pharmacies and clinics, now carry the booster. To be eligible for the booster, you must either be 65 or older, 18 to 64 with high risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus, or at…
Today, MSDH is reporting an additional 1,520 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 58 deaths. Nineteen deaths occurred between September 1st and September 26th and 39 deaths occurred between August 21st and September 22nd, identified from death certificate reports. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases is now 486,195 with 9,538 deaths. Categories: Local News, News Tags: COVID-19, health
Authorities have executed a massive contraband bust at the South Mississippi Correctional Facility in Leakesville. According to our media partner the Sun Herald, Fifty-nine-year-old Pervis Everett is the alleged smuggler. He’s accused of providing prisoners with drugs, electronics, cellphones, hacksaws, and other items, according to court records. FBI surveillance footage shows Everett using a known smuggling route through a wooded…
Today’s experiment is a spooky science experiment you can do by using acetone. Categories: Hooked on Science Tags: Hooked on Science
It’s Tuesday which means it is time for the News 25 Pet of the Week. Katie King with the Humane Society of South Mississippi is in studio with more. Categories: Pet of the Week Tags: Humane Society of South Mississippi, pet of the week
Pfizer is testing a pill that could prevent COVID and the Federal Reserve chairman testifies before congress with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen today. Jane King is in New York with those stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: morning business report
An upper level high-pressure is developing along the Mississippi Valley from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The moisture recovery has occurred since yesterday evening. A disturbance in the NW’tern GOM will continue to slowly move to the NW towards E’tern Texas. Showers and t-storms will affect the area through Thursday morning with low severe potential, but gusty winds is…
An upper level high-pressure is developing along the Mississippi Valley from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The moisture recovery has occurred since yesterday evening. A disturbance in the NW’tern GOM will continue to slowly move to the NW towards E’tern Texas. Showers and t-storms will affect the area through Thursday morning with low severe potential, but gusty winds is…
Our brief period of pleasant weather comes to an end for much of the area as we head into Tuesday and Wednesday. Rain chances today move up to about 50 percent for much of the Mississippi Coast, with areas in Southeast Louisiana seeing up to a 70 percent chance. Otherwise it will be partly to mostly cloudy, warm and humid….
The cooler, drier weather of last week is gone and calm, more humid weather is moving in. That means our cooler, drier period is over as drier, more humid air moves in. Expect that as early as tonight with a much warmer high near 71 and likely patchy fog. Partly cloudy skies linger as well, and build into tomorrow afternoon….
The New Orleans Saints 28-13 week three win against the Patriots looked a lot more like their week one performance than it did week two and that’s certainly a good thing heading into week four. Head Coach Sean Payton said, “Just being in this league long enough, that sometimes that formula has to change. We felt like going in that…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College football team is back at practice following the tragic passing of Levi Madison on Friday. Following the team’s return to campus after their game at Hinds Community College, the freshman defensive lineman and two teammates were involved in a single-car accident in Wiggins. In the early morning hours of September 24th, Madison succumbed to…
It had to end some time, so get ready to see rain soon as we get back to a more “late summer-like” pattern. That means our cooler, drier period is over as drier, more humid air moves in. Expect that as early as tonight with a much warmer high near 71 and likely patchy fog. Partly cloudy skies linger as…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College football team is back at practice following the tragic passing of Levi Madison on Friday. As the Bulldogs continue to mourn his passing, they also start the process of playing out the rest of the 2021 season in his honor. Last night, the Gulf Coast family held a private memorial service followed by a…
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are starting to decrease here along the Coast. Exactly one month ago on August 27th when the delta variant was ripping through the state, the department of health reported 4,041 new COVID-19 cases in a single day. Numbers are less than half of what they were just a few weeks ago, according to Chris Ayers, clinical…
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 1,773 cases of COVID-19 and 55 new deaths for the three-day period running from September 24th to September 26th. Twenty-eight of those deaths occurred between September 12th and September 23rd and 27 deaths occurred between August 24th and September 20th. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic is…
The Southern Rail Commission will award grant funding from the Federal Railroad Administration to three cities along the Coast. Those cities are Gulfport, Bay St. Louis, and Pascagoula. Along with these three coastal cities, Birmingham, Alabama will also receive funding. SRC will award a total of $953,338. Gulfport will receive $246,500. Bay St. Louis will receive $270,000. Pascagoula will receive…
Two former Coast high school football players were involved in a car accident on Friday that included MGCCC football players: freshman offensive lineman Brandon Cunningham from St. Martin, and sophomore running back Cam Thomas from Picayune. Cunningham is currently in Jackson, receiving treatment for the injuries he sustained in the accident. Thomas was uninjured. When the news broke, Picayune Head…
Get your cameras ready because the Friends of Ocean Springs Municipal Library will host their second annual amateur photo contest. Contestants may begin submitting their photos on September 30th until November 1st. Amateur photographers in three age groups, children, teens, and adults, are invited to submit their best work in five separate categories. These categories include people, animals, landscapes and…
We’ll be turning the page on the calendar later this week and with the month of October comes the Halloween festivities. One local favorite to get you and your family in the Halloween spirit is the Trinity Episcopal Church Pumpkin Patch in Pass Christian. Their pumpkins arrived Sunday evening and the patch is now open to the public. Not only…
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is increasing grant funds available to all students. MGCCC announced an increased CARES Grant amounts available to students by $500 for those currently enrolled at the college. Pell Grant eligible students can now receive up to $1,500 per semester and non-Pell eligible students can receive up to $1,250. Students are able to use these grants…
Mississippi will soon start rebuilding a section of highway that collapsed during torrential rainfall brought by Hurricane Ida. Two people were killed and nine were injured August 30th as seven vehicles plunged, one after another, into a deep pit that opened up on the dark stretch of Mississippi Highway 26 near Lucedale. One injured person eventually died in a hospital…
On Mondays here on News 25 we feature children from Mississippi hoping to get adopted in our Grant me Hope segment, made possible by Caring Hearts Counseling Services. Today we introduce you to Will, a 16-year-old who says life with a family would give him a place to belong. If you’re interested in adopting Will, you can visit the Mississippi…
The first half of this week will be the end of clear skies and no rain as high-pressure develops and extends along the Mississippi River Valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. Moisture recovery will take some time but should start to see a west to east progression of showers developing today. Portions of the forecast area east of…