The death of 51-year-old former Pascagoula Councilman Joe Abston sparked a community movement to get more COVID vaccine shots in arms. After having health complications, Abston was admitted to Singing River Health System in Pascagoula. Last Thursday, he was moved to the intensive care unit where he was on a ventilator and 100 percent oxygen. After ten days in the…
Governor Tate Reeves held a COVID-19 press conference today to update the public on the state’s response. Reeves addressed learning in schools amid the most recent outbreak, saying it is vital that in-person learning stays. He says schools can rearrange sizes of classes, utilize masks, offer vaccines, and other methods to keep schools open, though pep rallies and other school…
An heat advisory was issued today and is still active until 7 PM, and it won’t be the last we’ll see over the next week. We’re in for an interesting change though. Right now we’re seeing high heat indices because the humidity rose slightly, but the temperature has remained near the seasonal average in the low 90s. As next week…
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 20 is coming to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. The event will hold multiple match-ups including a title fight between Johnny Bedford and Reggie Barnett Jr. for the BKFC Bantamweight Championship. Former UFC Fighter Alan Belcher is also expected to make his bare-knuckle debut during the event against Tony Lopez. Doors open at 6…
Ocean Springs drive-thru coffee shop Java Jo’z reopened today after being closed for two months. Owner Mickey Creech noticed in June his building started giving him problems during work. Creech then decided it was time to tear down his original shop of 17 years and rebuild it from the ground up. Since his decision, the business has been closed due…
There’s a fish fry fundraiser happening this Saturday in Long Beach. Crusaders for Veterans and Equal Steps for Veterans Home are hosting the fish fry in Long Beach. Crusaders for Veterans helps vets with anything from home projects, like installing a ramp or mowing the lawn to readjusting into civilian life. While they work to assist all veterans, their main…
The Harrison County School District kicked-off school on August 6th and less than two weeks later they have already reinstated the virtual learning option due to a rise in COVID cases. The optional virtual learning window for kids will be available from Monday, August 23rd until Friday, September 3rd. Once September 3rd passes, all students will have to return to…
At the Family Education Center in Moss Point, free COVID vaccines were given to the public. Moss Point School District partnered with the City of Moss Point, the fire department, and Singing River Health System to provide vaccines for everyone. About 25 students pre-registered to receive their second dose of the vaccine after receiving their first at the Tigers Back…
Mississippi’s only children’s hospital has confirmed they are caring for 28 hospitalized children as a result of COVID-19. Children’s of Mississippi, a part of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, also reports eight children are in the ICU as a result with five of those ICU patients being too young to receive a vaccine. Children’s says this is…
Friday night, the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is coming to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship
A vaccine distribution drive is happening tonight in Pascagoula in honor of a former Pascagoula councilmen and current finance manager at the Jackson County Port Authority who lost his battle with COVID-19 Sunday. Singing River, in partnership with Ochsner, along with family and friends of 51-year-old Joe Abston are sponsoring the COVID vaccine drive at the Pascagoula High School performing…
Old Navy is overhauling its approach to how it designs and markets to plus-size women and some states are turning to an antibody treatment as COVID-19 surges. Jane King is in New York with those stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: morning business report
Today may actually be the coolest day of the next 3-4 days with highs climbing into the mid-90s across much of the area. Once we heat up the heat index values will climb and climb quickly with a good chunk of the area likely seeing heat index values over 100 degrees. Scattered showers/t-storms will aid in some relief to the…
Crusaders for Veterans, a non-profit organization based in South Mississippi, will hold a fish fry fundraiser event this Saturday, August 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will take place at 305 Church Avenue in Long Beach, MS. Each platter will cost $10 and will include mullet, cole slaw, hush puppies, and fries. All proceeds will benefit struggling…
Main focus in the short term will be on the potential for oppressive heat across the region. Today may actually be the coolest day of the next 3-4 days with highs climbing into the mid-90s across much of the area. Once we heat up the heat index values will climb and climb quickly with a good chunk of the area…
We have entered a more typical summertime setup that will persist for the foreseeable future. Any lingering showers and thunderstorms this evening will gradually die down, with only an isolated storm or two possible during the overnight hours mainly across the coastal counties. Most forecast models shows a decent uptick in shower and thunderstorm activity mid to late morning Thursday…
When it comes to offensive star power, the Gautier football program has just as much, if not more, as any other team on the Gulf Coast. But the Gators are far from a two-man show in 2021 as they try to make stop number 19 a stop to remember. Quarterback Kaden Irving said, “We just have a winner’s mentality around…
The showers and thunderstorms that develop in the heat of the day are starting to die off, but we’ll see more in the way of coastal activity overnight. Still nothing significant though as we’ll continue our hotter and drier than average trend. That will change slightly in the short term, but the long term is looking even drier. Expect an…
Celebrating the 55th reunion for the Seabee Construction Battalion NMCB 74 All Era, veterans and their families reconnected with old time service buddies. Over the past three days, veterans who served our country from 1966 to 2014 came together as they do every two years to reconnect. Tonight was the final night banquet to close out the reunion. At the…
The events of the past week in the Afghanistan area have stirred up emotions for many across the nation, perhaps none as much as those who served there. Here’s what they had to say about the current state of Afghanistan and the impact the country had on them. Retired U.S. 96th Navy Mass Communication Specialist First Class Clifton Williams said,…
The showers and thunderstorms that develop in the heat of the day generally lead to some nice cool spots, but they’ve been sparse recently. That will change slightly in the short term, but the long term is looking even drier. Expect an average 30% chance of showers tomorrow afternoon with partly sunny skies and an average high near 91. From…
While you can’t stop a storm from happening, you can prepare before it hits and with the peak of hurricane season here, Mississippi Power offered tips to help prepare for storms. The Atlantic Hurricane Season is from June 1st to November 30th each year and it’s always important to be prepared for a hurricane or tropical storm. To help prepare…
In the weekly Mississippi State Department of Health COVID update meeting, topics of surpassing winter peaks, growing infections and quarantines and new resources to help hospitals were released. Kicking off the meeting, Dr. Thomas Dobbs explains Mississippi is not as immune or vaccinated as he’d like us to be. With increasing numbers of teenage and young adults testing positive for…
Today, the Mississippi Department of Health is reporting an additional 4,085 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 36 deaths. Twenty-six deaths occurred between July 24th and August 17th and ten deaths occurred between November 20th, 2020 and August 10th, identified from death certificate reports. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases is now 396,394 with 7,916 deaths. Among cases and deaths already…