A Perkinston man died Saturday evening in a two-vehicle collision in Harrison County. Coroner Brian Switzer said 67-year-old Thomas Ingram was driving a motorcycle northbound on Riceville Road near the McHenry Road intersection when he collided with a southbound vehicle.…
The Harrison County Coroner's office is trying to identify a woman found dead in a ditch in Gulfport overnight. Deputy Coroner Whitney Valles said she was called about 1:30 a.m. after a neighbor in the 1500 block of Madison Street…
A Hancock County killed Friday in an industrial accident at Jindal Tubular has been identified. St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston said 25-year-old Tyde Woody died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday. Woody…
An Ocean Springs man died Tuesday night in an accident on I-10. Jackson County Coroner Bruce Lynd Jr. identified the man as 53-year-old Andrew Ford of Ocean Springs. Lynd said Ford was eastbound on I-10 and there was an accident…
A man trying to get from Slidell to family in Tennessee was found dead in Pearl River County on Monday. Pearl River County Coroner Derek Turnage said 57-year-old Charles Wilson Ligon Jr., was found Monday morning by duck hunters returning…
Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer has confirmed the four-month-old child found unresponsive in a Biloxi hotel has died. Biloxi police officers answered a call Saturday about the child. They identified the person caring for the child as Christian Angel Cookmeyer.…
A 13-year-old D'Iberville Middle School student who died after drowning in a creek near Highway 15 has been identified. The Harrison County Coroner's Office confirmed that the teen is Channon Wilson, who died of accidental drowning. D'Iberville Police Chief Shannon…
An autopsy completed today rules out homicide in Corri Howard's death. The 36-year-old was found January 13 in a marsh behind a home on Howze Street in Moss Point. Howard had been last seen on January 8 when police tried…
Biloxi Police and other agencies are investigating the Monday death of a 2-year-old. Police said in a press release that the department received a 911 call about 6 a.m. Monday from a residence on St. Mary Boulevard. A female at…
Jeff Hair, who ran against Jim Faulk for Hancock County coroner last year, is again throwing his hat in the ring for the position. Hair narrowly lost in a Republican party runoff to Faulk, who announced Monday that he resigned…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi coroner has resigned as he faces cancer and other health problems. Jim Faulk submitted his letter of resignation this month in Hancock County, a news outlet reported. He said he was diagnosed…
Bay St. Louis Police are investigating a shooting that led to the death of a Gulfport man. According to a press release from Chief Gary Ponthieux Jr., officers responded to the Third Base Lounge on Highway 90 about 4 a.m.…
Brian Switzer has won the match-up for Harrison County Coroner. Switzer won with 78.02 percent of the vote.
Gulfport police need help identifying the male body that was discovered in Bayou Bernard Monday evening. The body is described as a white male, mid 40's to 50's, about 5'9" to 5’10", 200 pounds, dark hair, beard, and a gold…
A federal lawsuit filed today accuses the Coroner of Harrison County of steering the County's morgue, cremation, and burial business to white-owned funeral homes. The African American funeral directors and their families filed suit against the coroner, Gary Hargrove, and…