Area News

With the arrival of spring, warmer temperatures offer ideal conditions to revitalize your home landscaping or plant your first personal herb garden. Before grabbing that shovel, however, Atmos Energy reminds everyone – homeowners and professional excavators alike – to keep communities safe by contacting 811 prior to starting any excavation project. Digging without knowing the approximate location…

Page Graham of Long Beach, a senior at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Gulf Park, is blending her passion for sustainability efforts along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and her academic …

Some special athletes in South Mississippi are warming up and ready to return to the field as the Special Olympics Track and Field Games for the area are scheduled to take place on Friday, April 12, …

Dear Members of the Press,

As legal counsel for Keith Jackson, I would like to address the recent criminal charge brought against my client. This charge is serious, and we understand the …

Prom night is one of the highlights of the school year, and memories from the special night are often cherished throughout one’s life time – but what about students whose families are struggling and can’t afford to purchase sparkly evening gowns or tuxedos for the special occasion? Long Beach High School students are in luck.…

The City of Long Beach is now home to the Mississippi EMERGE Center, a vocational rehabilitation for the low vision and blind training center. Long Beach Mayor George Bass, Mississippi’s First Lady Elee Reeves and Dorothy Young, Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services’s (MDRS) Director of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind, were among those on hand…

As with each year, Lenten season has arrived. Faithful Catholics throughout South Mississippi are now in the midst of the forty-day period of fasting and reflecting up until the Easter holiday, but …