A 15-year-old Gautier High student died Thursday after collapsing at the school's field house. Mayor Casey Vaughn identified the student as 15-year-old Shermarion Miner in a post on his social media page. Vaughn said in his post, "I share with…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84. Lesh’s death was announced…
Harrison County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a pedestrian early Monday morning and are searching for a suspect. Deputies believe the accident happened between two and three…
An Ocean Springs man will spend 20 years behind bars after killing one man and injuring another in a 2020 drunk driving case. 33-year-old Ernesto Antonio Rodriguez pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated DUI causing death, aggravated DUI causing injury and…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. Simpson’s…
NEW YORK (AP) — Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She…
GAUTIER, MS – On Thursday, August 10, 2023, at around 7:30 pm, the Gautier Fire Department and Police Department responded to a woods fire located in a wooded area between Dolphin Dr. and High School Rd. A 36-year-old white male…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A man has been indicted on a capital murder charge in the death of a University of Mississippi student who went missing last summer and whose body has not been found, police said Wednesday. The Oxford…
The Jackson County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help to find a woman in connection with a suspicious death and a stolen vehicle. The woman is identified as Mary Ann Slaughter Investigators say on Monday, a man was…
GAUTIER, MS – The Gautier Police Department is investigating the death of a man in south Gautier. The man, whose identity has not yet been released, was found deceased on a residential property on Parkdale Drive in Gautier at approximately…
ACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s health department has reported this flu season’s second flu death of a child or teenager. The first was reported in December. Pediatric flu deaths have been steady, with a total of 24 reported over 14 seasons…
Today Mississippi State Department of Health reports an additional pediatric COVID-19 death in a child between 1 and 5 years of age. This brings Mississippi's total of pediatric COVID-19 deaths to 11 since the pandemic began. Unvaccinated children are vulnerable…
By HILLEL ITALI NEW YORK (AP) — Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” died Friday. He was 68. Anderson died at…
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…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state of Mississippi has surpassed 10,000 coronavirus-related deaths, health officials reported Monday. The Mississippi State Department of Health reported that 10,024 people have died of COVID-19 or its complications in the state, which has a…
The judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi are saddened to announce the death of U. S. Magistrate Judge John C. Gargiulo on Sunday, October 3, 2021, following complications from pancreatic cancer. “Since his…
Today MSDH is reporting an additional 3,425 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 34 deaths. There were 27 deaths between August 11 and August 25. Of those deaths, 5 were from Jackson County, 2 from Harrison and 1 from Pearl…
By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Charlie Watts, the self-effacing and unshakeable Rolling Stones drummer who helped anchor one of rock’s greatest rhythm sections and used his “day job” to support his enduring love of jazz, has died, according to…
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting an additional 3,291 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 111 deaths. Forty-one deaths occurred between August 19 and August 23. Of those deaths, 1 was in Hancock, 8 in Harrison, 1 in…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi reported its largest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases Thursday, far exceeding a record set only two days earlier and indicating more challenges in coming days for already-strained hospitals. The state Health Department reported 4,412 new cases…
Singing River Health System had 128 people hospitalized with COVID, the hospital CEO said, and 119 of those were not vaccinated. The numbers continue to climb in Mississippi. Of those hospitalized at SRHS, 28 are in ICU and 21 of…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The sheriff of a north Mississippi county has died, the state’s second sheriff to pass away in the last week. Yalobusha County Sheriff Mark Fulco died Monday. The Calhoun County sheriff’s office posted a brief message…