Proving Mississippi prepares the best seafood, Chef Austin Sumrall was crowned America’s new King of Seafood at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in New Orleans. Last Saturday, Chef Sumrall competed in the competition for the first time and won. As the new seafood king, he will travel across the country and abroad to promote U.S. seafood. Sumrall is the owner…
Hospital beds are filing up with COVID patients more and more every day. Currently, Singing River Health System has 130 hospitalized COVID patients, 123 of which are unvaccinated. Thirty-three of the 130 with COVID are in the ICU and 26 of the COVID patients in intensive care are on ventilators. Singing River is reporting the average age of the COVID…
They say the only sure things in life are death and taxes, but I’d also push for adding our consistent South Mississippi summer humidity. Once again today the temperature leveled off in the low 90s as the dewpoint remained in the low to mid 70s. This trend continues for the rest of the week and the start of the next…
Some good news out of Ocean Springs. Allison Yarrow of Ocean Springs Upper Elementary School has received a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program award. As a Fulbright recipient, Yarrow will share knowledge and foster meaningful connections across communities in the United States and abroad. Fulbrighters engage in cutting-edge research and expand their professional networks, often continuing research collaborations started…
Since the beginning of the delta spike, there has been an all-time high in COVID cases amongst pregnant women. Memorial Hospital has been one of many locations in Mississippi to see an increase. The CDC says that pregnancy increases the risk for severe illness from COVID-19. One of the biggest concerns for these COVID patients has been respiratory distress which…
Two elementary schools in South Mississippi also have closed their doors due to COVID. South Hancock Elementary announced its 14-day closure via a telephone messaging system sent to parents, according to reports. George County School District also announced that all Agricola Elementary students will transition to virtual learning beginning tomorrow until Friday August, 20th following a large number of COVID…
The team at Memorial Hospital continues to host pop-up COVID vaccination sites as the number of people receiving the vaccinations continues to rise. The most recent pop-up event the team hosted was today at the St. Thomas Catholic Church in Long Beach. The site was one of 32 pop-up events the hospital will host this month. The teams says they…
The Mississippi State Department of Health hosted a health briefing focusing on incoming federal assistance, record-breaking case numbers, and alarming ICU capacity. Mississippi will open a 50-bed field-hospital and the federal government will send medical professionals to help treat patients as COVID-19 cases continue to surge. Many hospitals face a crunch for space and staffing and Mississippi has one of…
Memorial Hospital has announced more COVID-19 vaccine events for the rest of August. Pfizer vaccines will be available tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Orange Grove Medical Clinic in Gulfport. On Saturday, the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine will be available from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Keesler Federal Credit Union location on Seaway Road in Gulfport. Tags:…
Coastal Family Health Center is celebrating National Health Center Week by hosting several events along the Coast. This year’s National Health Center Week is honoring those front-line providers, staff, and beloved patients who lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the very beginning of the crisis, community health centers began finding innovative ways to provide preventative and primary code…
Mountain Dew is coming out with a boozy option and 2021 is shaping up to be the best year ever for gambling. Jane King is in New York with those stories and more.
Another day of afternoon shower and thunderstorm activity is on tap with precipitation chances a good deal higher overall than they were yesterday, mainly during the peak heating of the afternoon hours. The main concern with the rainfall today will be the possibility of efficient storms leading to some minor flooding issues. More of the same is expected tomorrow and…
Another day of afternoon shower and thunderstorm activity is on tap with precipitation chances a good deal higher overall than they were yesterday, mainly during the peak heating of the afternoon hours. This should in turn help to keep temperatures in check with generally lower 90s expected. The main concern with the rainfall today will be the possibility of efficient…
Summer just keeps on keeping on with another toasty day with showers and thunderstorms likely during the afternoon. This persistent upper level ridge will continue over the area and dominate the weather through Thursday. Winds overall will be relatively weak and any big weather system will be pretty much non-existent outside of storm outflow boundaries and the daytime heat driven…
Good to be back after a few weeks off, and it’s no surprise it’s still hot and humid though it will be drier. That isn’t going to change anytime soon since we’re really just now hitting the peak of summer, but the next week will only be a degree or so above average. We’ll still see daily afternoon showers and…
The last time Pascagoula High School competed in region 4 class 6A, the Panthers finished with an overall record of just 1-10 in 2018. In the meantime, that 9th grade team played D’Iberville for the district championship and so its now that senior class of 2022, leading the Panthers’ return to the 6A ranks at stop number 13 on News…
At the Biloxi Civic Center, the concerned east Biloxi community came together to put an end to recent gun crimes. Mayor ‘FoFo’ Gilich, Biloxi Police Chief John Miller and Biloxi Ward 2 Councilman Felix Gines hosted a meeting this evening to update the community on recent arrest to crimes they’ve been experiencing in their east Biloxi neighborhood. The three community…
With the increase of COVID cases nationwide and here on the Coast, Memorial Hospital in Gulfport has leaned on the help of a treatment that wasn’t available this time last year. “I will definitely give this variant credit. This is 2020 amplified big time. It really is.” This time last year, the primary treatment for COVID-19 patients was to wait…
Good to be back after a few weeks off, and it’s no surprise it’s still hot and humid. That isn’t going to change anytime soon since we’re really just now hitting the peak of summer, but the next week will only be a degree or so above average. We are trending in a drier direction though. We’ll still see daily…
‘Police in the Park’ hopes to strengthen trust between police and the Gulfport community this Saturday. Making an effort to build relationships within the community they serve, the Gulfport Police Department is partnering with local organizations to host an outdoor fun day. Partnering with Extend a Hand, Help a Friend, Morning Star Baptist Church, Gulfport Leisure Services and the Boys…
COVID-19 hospitalizations are approaching a record high for the state. The State Department of Health reported today that there are 3,488 new COVID cases and 36 deaths throughout the state, bringing Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases to 368,549 with 7,685 deaths among cases and deaths already reported. MSDH has also identified 36 additional COVID-19 cases in residents of long-term care…
To bring awareness to underprivileged communities across the Coast, the Salvation Army of the Mississippi Gulf Coast hosted an Ambassador for Good Day event. This year, the Salvation Army set up a mock homelessness camp with local celebrities dressed in nice attire standing on the corner with a cardboard sign that said ‘need has no season.’ Some of the local…
A festival set to take place in early September has been moved to December as concerns over the delta variant continue. 100 Men Hall’s Booker Fest will now run from December 3rd to December 5th instead of the original dates of September 3rd through 5th. The festival honors blues keyboardist James Carroll Booker, who was born in New Orleans and…
COVID numbers continue to spike along the Coast, leaving those in nursing homes, personal care homes, assisted living homes, and intermediate care facilities wondering if they will have to revert back to the COVID-19 protocols that were put in place at the start of the pandemic. When the pandemic first hit, seniors were not allowed to leave the facility or…