Today students across the Coast participated in the annual Great Shakeout drills to learn how to stay safe during a natural disaster. The students at Ocean Springs Middle School worked hard in the classroom until they heard the announcement that had them sheltering for cover. Thankfully, this announcement was just for the safety drill known as the annual Shakeout. This…
The U.S. Post Office in Downtown Biloxi may soon be renamed for a fallen police officer who was killed in the line of duty two years ago. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill which would name the building the Robert S. McKeithen Post Office if it passes through the Senate. Representative Steven Palazzo introduced the bill earlier…
Plenty of school spirit on the Coast this evening as homecoming parades take over the streets of two South Mississippi cities. News 25’s Grace Boyles is in Biloxi ahead of the Indian Nation Homecoming Parade. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Biloxi High school, Homecoming
High used car prices are likely to stick around for a while and the FDA approves more COVID vaccine boosters which could impact the stock market. Jane King is at the Nasdaq Market site with those stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: morning business report
The Gautier Mullet Fest is this Saturday. Here with more is festival chairman Wesley Ward. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Gautier Mullet Festival
The Labor Department has released its weekly unemployment benefits numbers and they show an improvement over last week. According to the numbers, unemployment claims fell by 6,000 to 290,000 last week. That’s the third weekly drop in a row and the fewest to apply for benefits since the pandemic worsened in March 2020. However, the report also shows hiring has…
Singing River Gulfport Hospital is celebrating one year of providing medical care to South Mississippi. In honor of their anniversary, Singing River is inviting people to come out tomorrow for free screenings, vaccines, 3D mammogram scheduling, and refreshments. Some services provided at Singing River Gulfport include a cancer center, orthopedics, general surgery, gastroenterology, a cath lab, and more. The day…
Locals gathered at Bayou View Baptist Church this morning to finish preparing lunch for our local health care heroes. Volunteers first gathered yesterday evening and cooked through the night, making 1,300 meals for 800-day side and 500-night side nurses. They had many donations in order to make this give back possible like a slow cooker and pulled pork from Hog…
A shallow cold front continues to move SE through the region. Sufficient moisture in place with enough instability to support showers and a few thunderstorms will continue this afternoon into this evening. A secondary reinforcement of the upper support will try to extend southward on Friday. As the front pushes south, models hint that lower dew-points will sag in from…
The upper level pattern shows a trough racing eastward through the upper Mississippi Valley towards the Great Lakes. It will be too shallow to bring the associated cold front through the region but a weak front looks to reach the area later today. There’s sufficient moisture in place with enough instability to support showers and a few thunderstorms, but limited…
Showers and a few embedded thunderstorms are expected to increase in coverage through Thursday morning then diminish during the afternoon leaving isolated showers and storms for Thursday evening. A surface low pressure system located well to the north brings a weak trailing cold front southward, which moves through the forecast area Thursday night. Dry conditions are expected on Friday as…
Championship weekend is set for high school volleyball featuring four South State champions from six Coastal counties. On Monday, Vancleave won a marathon match over East Central in five sets and that was only the beginning. Resurrection Catholic, Our Lady Academy, and Pass Christian all went on to punch their tickets on Tuesday. It doesn’t get more dramatic than the…
Today brought our first wet weather in over a week as much drier, cooler weather has dominated until now. That changed quickly last night as warmer, more humid air moved in rapidly, bringing tonight’s low up even further to 71 degrees. The clouds and showers will thin a bit through the overnight hours as heating dies down, but overall it…
The New Orleans Saints are in the midst of an up-and-down season so far coming out of their week six bye with an overall record of 3-2. Every win has been followed by a loss and every loss by a win, but this is actually somewhat par for the course with or without Drew Brees. It’s right around this time…
When Texas and Oklahoma made their power play to the SEC, they started a game of dominoes that’s only just begun. Now caught in the crossfire, the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. As first reported by the Athletic, the Sun Belt is targeting Conference USA schools like USM, Marshall, and Old Dominion. That coming in response to Monday’s report from Yahoo…
If you’re between the ages of 16 to 25, Climb CDC Gulfport is challenging you to a TikTok competition. Following their mission to promote strong communities, Climb CDC is aiming to push youth to get vaccinated through TikTok. The popular social media platform TikTok has millions of users and by creating content advising others to get the shot, Climb hopes…
Today brought our first wet weather in over a week as much drier, cooler weather has dominated until now. That changed quickly last night as warmer, more humid air moved in rapidly, bringing tonight’s low up even further to 71 degrees. The clouds and showers will thin a bit through the overnight hours as heating dies down, but overall it…
The Gulfport Chamber of Commerce gave out grants to three Harrison County School District teachers to help fund projects they created for their students. The recipients were Bel-Aire Elementary’s Heather Nittianandan for her project ‘feeding the future,’ West Harrison High’s Bethany Seal for her project ‘tiny house for story characters,’ and West Harrison Middle’s Georgene Danjanic for her project ‘book…
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Vancleave High School raised $1,700 for a local donut shop owner. Kathleen Nicholson, also known as Mrs. Kat, is the owner of Lou-Joe’s Donut Hut less than a mile away from the high school. She also has a son who attends VHS as a senior. Mrs. Kat was recently diagnosed with breast cancer…
The team at St. Joseph Hospice visited the Gulfport Police Department today to offer free lunch to all of the officers. The team began cooking hotdogs and burgers early in the morning and brought the food to the department. The hospice set up an outside location and gave out about 100 lunch servings to the working police officers. The team…
Aggressive drivers be warned that the Harrison County School District is taking measures to report school bus stop arm violators to police. The district buses now carry a robust camera system that can track plate numbers of passing cars with ease. Each bus is equipped with $2,000 in back and front facing cameras, amounting to $400,000 in federal funds for…
Due to labor shortages delaying shipments nationwide, school cafeterias are growing short on food and supplies. Despite the shortage, cafeteria workers and nutritionists are inventing new ways to feed students. Gulfport High School is running out of plastic forks. The cause is a cascading effect that reaches all the way to labor shortages in shipping yards, interrupting supply chains across…
Many people gathered today at Mosaic Church in Ocean Springs to say their final goodbyes to Pascagoula Fire Captain Jacob Latch. Thirty-eight-year-old Captain Latch passed away last week after an aggressive form of cancer. Three weeks ago, he was diagnosed with EHE, a cancer that grows from the cells that make up the blood vessels. Latch was a lifelong resident…
Halloween is on the horizon and what better way to get in the spooky spirit than with festive drinks? Troy Thompson met with a mixologist to get his professional advice on how to get the party started. Tags: Living Well with Troy Thompson