More than a thousand golfers from around the country packed their irons and headed to the Coast for the 46th annual Slavic Invitational after the tournament’s cancellation due to COVID last year. Two-man teams will compete at five different locations on the Gulf Coast through Sunday. The invitational began nearly half a century ago as a fundraiser by the Slavic…
Air Force Families Forever at Keesler Air Force Base held an opening ceremony today for their Fallen Heroes Butterfly Garden. People who have lost loved ones through war look for many ways to find peace from their tragedies. Today, the Air Force Families Forever Program at Keesler opened a brand-new butterfly garden to honor their fallen heroes. This program was…
UPS will kick off Saturday deliveries via UPS Ground from their Gautier-based facility starting tomorrow. The facility will put five new package vehicles into service tomorrow with a celebration and a police escort to Highway 90. This means local customers will no longer need to purchase UPS Air for Saturday deliveries. UPS representatives said the expansion adds ten new jobs…
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Bel-Aire Elementary in Gulfport went gold in memory of Austin Guidry, a former student at the elementary school. Austin was diagnosed with cancer on January 9th, 2019 after being rushed to the hospital due to shortness of breath and severe side pain. On July 29th, 2019, just six months after he was diagnosed…
Boogie Knights, an all-male dance group, is forming on the Coast. Scott LeBlanc is in studio with more information on how you can become a part of these dancing kings. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Boogie Knights, Dance Tryouts
Moderna’s CEO weighs in on when he thinks the pandemic will be over and Americans will spend a record $10 billion on Halloween candy, decorations, and costumes. Jane King is in New York with those stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: morning business report
WXXV has partnered with the Mississippi Gulf Coast of Chamber of Commerce to spotlight a chamber member each month. For September, we’re taking a look at the many services Coastal Family Health Center has to offer. Categories: Chamber Member Spotlight Tags: Coastal Family Health Center, Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce Member Spotlight
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting an additional 1,505 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 30 deaths. Nine of these deaths occurred between September 20th and September 23rd. An additional 21 deaths occurred between July 18th and September 19th, identified from death certificate reports. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases is now 482,902 with 9,425 deaths. Categories: Local News,…
Very pleasant and comfortable conditions will continue through the weekend. With the less humid flow, morning low temperatures will continue to be a good 10 to 15 degrees below climatological lows. Afternoon high temperatures will max out in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend. Beautiful weather will continue through the rest of the weekend into Sunday, but temperatures stair…
Very pleasant and comfortable conditions will continue through the weekend. With the less humid flow, morning low temperatures will continue to be a good 10 to 15 degrees below climatological lows. Afternoon high temperatures will max out in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend Beautiful weather will continue through the rest of the weekend into Sunday, but temperatures stair…
Yesterday’s cold front has taken hold in South Mississippi and it is feeling good outside. In fact, it’s finally feeling as good as it looks with drier air at all levels of the atmosphere, so no more muggy afternoons for a few days. Expect tonight to be even cooler than last night with a low near 55 on the waterfront…
After coming back from 20 points down to beat Louisiana Tech by one point in the first week of the season, eventually, the law of averages was bound to bite the Bulldogs in another close game with the opposite result. As fate would have it, it only took two weeks for that to happen in Saturday’s 31-29 heartbreaker at the…
The high school volleyball playoffs haven’t started yet, but in a way, they have for schools like Pass Christian. Basically a must-win situation for the Lady Pirates and they had to do it against first place Stone. Pirates take the second set 25-19, they also take the fourth set and then in the fifth and final set, they get it…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast football program has won 21 consecutive regular season games dating back to the 2018 season. The only team that got close to knocking off the Bulldogs last year was Hinds in a 31-24 overtime thriller. Bulldogs and Eagles meeting for the first time since, third road game in the first four weeks for MGCCC. Hinds-42 MGCCC-37…
Community COVID vaccines are available Friday at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport. Singing River Health System, Ochsner and Lynn Meadows partnered up to set up a vaccination event tomorrow afternoon from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pfizer vaccines are available for children 12 and older with adult consent and Johnson and Johnson vaccines are available for anyone 18 and…
The fashion event of the season was held tonight at the IP Casino. For the fifth year, the Bacot McCarty Foundation, with the help of IP and South Mississippi Living Magazine, presented its annual Renaissance the Runway fashion show to close out the Jolly season and raise money for numerous nonprofit organizations across South Mississippi. For the main event, over…
Yesterday’s cold front has taken hold in South Mississippi and it is feeling good outside. In fact, it’s finally feeling as good as it looks with drier air at all levels of the atmosphere, so no more muggy afternoons for a few days. Expect tonight to be even cooler than last night with a low near 55 on the waterfront…
Today in Gulfport, you could buy a lunch that gives back. Food Trucks for a Cause was hosted by Coast Electric Power as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Seven food truck vendors gathered outside Coast Electric on Highway 49 from 11 a.m. until all the food was gone. As a sponsor of the Gulf Coast Heart Walk, Coast…
Ladies in the Bible Study class at First Baptist Church of Ocean Springs are helping out those impacted by Hurricane Ida by adding a little flair. Instead of your usual care packages filled with water, can goods, and house hold products, the ladies decided to pack purses filled with goodies such as lip balm, gum, hand held planners, notepads, pens,…
Back for its fifth year, the Bacot McCarty Foundation is hosting its annual Renaissance the Runway fashion show tonight at the IP Casino and Resort. News 25’s Grace Boyles has more. Categories: Local News, News Tags: bacot mccarty foundation, Renaissance the Runway
The Mississippi Department of Education has released statewide assessments for 2020-2021 with multiple local school districts earning high marks in the four subjects areas of math, ELA, history, and science. Ocean Springs School District was one of two districts in the entire state to place in the top ten for student achievement in all four of those subjects. Other South…
First responders gathered in Ocean Springs to hold a procession in honor of former AMR paramedic Ryan Shields. Shields died from COVID-19 on September 11th. Hundreds gathered to say thank you and send love to a man who spent his life serving the Gulf Coast. Ryan Shields spent time in the Air Force as an aircraft mechanic and was a…
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 2,071 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 42 deaths. Twenty-four of those deaths occurred between September 12th and September 21st. An additional 18 deaths occurred between July 13th and September 13th, identified from death certificate reports. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases is now 481,397 with 9,395 deaths. Categories: Local News, News Tags:…
October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month which promotes acceptance and inclusion of people with Down Syndrome. You can help become an advocate by participating in the local Buddy Walk set for October 16th in Gulfport. As that date approaches, billboards are going up across the Coast, helping us better connect with local children with Down Syndrome. Every Thursday on…