AUSTIN, Texas — The Biden administration urged the courts again to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday to prohibit any entity, including private business, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and called on state lawmakers to pass a similar ban into law.…
By JAMIE STENGLE and JILL BLEED Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Police have arrested a student suspected of opening fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school, leaving four people injured. Police say 18-year-old Timothy George Simpkins fled…
The college sports landscape is on the verge of a big change. It’s a possibility that Texas and Oklahoma could leave the Big 12 for the SEC became much…
Two Big 12 powers are reportedly looking to jump ship and are eyeing the SEC as an alternative conference affiliation. The Houston Chronicle first reported Wednesday that…
By Eric Olsen OMAHA (AP) -- As Will Bednar’s strikeout total kept climbing, it seemed everybody at TD Ameritrade Park was keeping track. Bednar didn’t want to admit it, but he was, too. “Uh, yeah,” he said sheepishly when asked.…
A key piece of information in a 30-year-old cold case has been confirmed. Now, Sheriff Mike Ezell wants to find out what happened to Kimberly Ann Funk and why she was found in the swampy area of Ward Bayou in…
PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Texas (AP) — A young alligator traced to the Louisiana bayous traded the swamp for a sandy Padre Island beach in South Texas. In an unusual spin from “Jaws,” the gator showed up Monday on Malaquite…
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Residents, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes due to the unusually chilly weather, have been rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles and taking them to a convention center in a South Texas resort town.…
A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas and Louisiana can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.
– Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers will host a fundraiser on Tuesday to support local communities in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas affected by hurricanes Laura and Sally. With help from its loyal Caniacs, Raising Cane’s hopes to raise at least…
A routine traffic stop in Ocean Springs resulted in the arrest of a Pass Christian man wanted on armed robbery charges. Wednesday, an officer with the Ocean Springs Police Department conducted a traffic stop on Highway 90 for a traffic…
By GERALD HERBERT, MELINDA DESLATTE and STACEY PLAISANCE LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. pounded the Gulf Coast with wind and rain Thursday as Laura roared ashore in Louisiana near the…
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to tour damage from one of the fiercest hurricanes to hit the United States. Trump said he would visit Texas and Louisiana on…
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas officials are trying to get a federal appeals court’s permission to enforce a ban on a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure, even though the court has not yet ruled on…
By DAVID PITT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal judges in Texas, Alabama and Ohio have temporarily blocked efforts to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic. The rulings Monday were handed down as providers…
A dog that was missing for three years got a lot of love on Valentine's Day! Wrangler, a three-year-old Great Pyrenees, took off from Bush Intercontinental Airport Friday to be reunited with his owner. The dog was found living in…
By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women faces execution for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage…
Folks here on the Coast are no strangers to natural disasters. So when other states are hit hard by Mother Nature, South Mississippians are always willing to lend a helping hand. Today the Ocean Springs community gathered to help the…
After a nearly two-week manhunt for a Texas murder suspect, the Gulfport Police Department put him behind bars right in South Mississippi over the weekend. "Saturday, July 27th at about 1:30, we traveled to the 3100 block of 8th Avenue,…
A prayer vigil was held in Channelview, Texas Tuesday night for the high school students and bus driver involved in a fatal bus crash. The students were band members returning from a performance at Disney World in Orlando. Forty students…
Are you interested in helping victims of Hurricane Harvey? Below is a list of local opportunities to help those in need. Bay Saint Louis Fire Department Where: Fire Station 1 (543 Main Street) or Fire Station 2 (9998 Hwy 603)…
The survivors of Tuesday’s fatal rail crossing crash in Biloxi have returned home to Texas. A bus carrying the nearly 30 senior citizens who survived the crash rolled into Bastrop late Wednesday night. They were on their way to a…
An Alabama man is behind bars after a report of suspicious activity led police to a stolen vehicle. A male and female were seen walking away from a black Honda Accord they left stranded on the side of the I-10…