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…
Don’t expect a noticeable change to the weather as a sunny and dry weekend lies ahead, but it’ll get warmer and more humid next week. Skies remain largely clear through the weekend, but more and more cloud cover is on the horizon. Only seeing light, wispy clouds this evening with an overnight low near 57 degrees and light northerly winds….
Reigning 4A South State champion Poplarville in the Pass. Poplarville-28 Pass Christian-6 Ocean Springs-45 Hancock-21 Gulfport-41 St. Martin-7 George County-43 Gautier-27 East Central-43 West Harrison-13 Vancleave-48 Long Beach-20 Picayune-42 Pearl River Central-0 Moss Point-14 McComb-12 South Pike-24 Stone-14 Categories: Friday Night Showcase, Local Sports, Sports Tags: high school football, sports
Right down the road from WXXV, Harrison Central playing host to Pascagoula. Red Rebels having won this match-up by 39 points last year before the Panthers rejoined the region 4 class 6A ranks. Harrison Central-33 Pascagoula-31 Categories: Friday Night Showcase, Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football, sports
St. Stanislaus has eight years’ worth of bragging rights over rival Bay High, but that could all change tonight even though SSC is no longer part of the same district. Tigers hosting the Rock-a-Chaws and Bay High preaching the next step all off-season, this is the prove it moment for the Tigers. Bay High-22 St. Stanislaus-14 Categories: Friday Night Showcase,…
D’Iberville Warriors are out to prove they’re just as dangerous as last year and the Biloxi Indians are out to prove last year doesn’t mean anything. Reigning Region 4 champion D’Iberville paying a visit to Biloxi, having won the 2020 match-up 34-0 one year ago tomorrow. D’Iberville-34 Biloxi-14 Categories: Friday Night Showcase, Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football,…
The three commissioners representing Jackson County on the Coastal Mississippi Tourism board are pushing back following the resignation announcement of CEO Milton Segarra. In a statement, Commissioners Roxy Condrey, Carla Todd, and Jim Williams say: “The Jackson County Commissioners are extremely disappointed and do not agree with the outcome of last week’s special call meeting resulting in the resignation of…
Don’t expect a noticeable change to our sunny & dry trend for another day or so, but it’ll get warmer and more humid going forward. Skies remain largely clear through the weekend, but more and more cloud cover is on the horizon. Only seeing light, wispy clouds this evening with an overnight low near 57 degrees and light northerly winds….
St. Stanislaus has eight years’ worth of bragging rights over rival Bay High, but that could all change tonight even though SSC is no longer part of the same district. News 25’s Jeff Haeger is in Hancock County with more. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football, sports
If you’re looking to break a sweat Saturday morning in Gulfport you can do a workout with the city’s finest. There’s PT with Gulfport PD taking place at Jones Park. This event is put on by the Gulfport Police Department and Bandit CrossFit. The goal is to promote a healthy active lifestyle and better connect citizens to the officers that…
In Moss Point, the Pascagoula River Audubon Center is holding their 2021 Hummingbird Migration Festival this weekend. There’s storytelling, hummingbird banding, native plant sales, crafts, bird watching, and vendors. It’s back again tomorrow from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the gates. It’s $10 for adults and $5 for children. The event is held during this…
In Harrison County, the Pass Christian Art Association is hosting their annual Fall Art Show. It’ll be taking place at the city’s public library starting today and ending October 16th. The association hopes it will bring people together to admire art from across the Coast. The show will showcase a large variety of art in many different mediums ranging from…
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…