Biloxi News Archives

It's not how volunteers Mark Jones and Traci Frees expected to leave South Mississippi.

A machine using 200 pounds of air pressure injected a liquid nutrient around the root system of oak trees at Biloxi's Town Green Thursday.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast is breaking ground today for new clubs in Biloxi and Gulfport.

Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer will be on Christmas trees across the Coast this year.

Biloxi is one of Mississippi's best-known cities, and its 300-year history has long fascinated those who live, work, visit or are stationed in the coastal city because of the military.

The Desporte name is synonymous with fresh Mississippi Coast seafood. But unless you've visited the fresh fish market, you won't know that they also serve already prepared, Biloxi-style lunches.

The prescription drug ring trial against Nick Tran has been delayed. Wednesday, the Biloxi pharmacist was granted a continuance.

Thousands of people took an important step in finding a cure for breast cancer. The American Cancer Society put on its Annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5-k Walk at the Biloxi Town Green.

Ten years after annexation, some Woolmarket residents could finally be getting sewer service.

Linda Saxon Nix and Carole Marie Stuart are friends who share a passion for travel and art, which they use to interpret their peripatetic adventures in photographs and paintings that depict the splendor of landscapes and the extraordinary character of the people they encounter.

This week, Biloxi City Council is also expected to approve more than $200,000 in charitable giving.

Three people have been arrested and charged with robbing the Whitney Bank in Biloxi on Thursday.

Project Fit is expanding in Harrison County. This thanks to a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi, kids at Nativity BVM Elementary School in Biloxi will be marching for better health in the future.

When not yet 3, Jack Nelson showed the gumption, curiosity, self-confidence and unending questions that would make him a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter.

Author Joseph T. McFadden, M.D., F.A.C.S will read an excerpt from his latest Non-Fiction book "Life in the Deadly World of Medicine" an educational book written to help educate and inform patients.

Advocacy groups will begin a push this weekend on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to encourage immigrants to start the process of becoming U.S. citizens.

Biloxi police have made one arrest in connection with a murder Tuesday night at a home on Old Mississippi 67, Biloxi Police Capt.

Rev. Msgr. Andrew L. Murray, vicar general for the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi, has died during a trip to Ireland.

A Biloxi church is under new leadership. Bishop Roger Morin installed Father Jimmy Pham as the new parish priest for Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church on Sunday in Biloxi.

Harrison County sheriff's deputies have arrested four people on drug charges in unrelated incidents, two involving meth.

A former legal secretary for a Biloxi law firm has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding her employer of $110,000. Joni Leigh Stone, 38, was sentenced Thursday on guilty pleas to embezzlement and credit-card fraud.

While bands being arrested for trashing hotel rooms is nothing new, DD/MM/YYYY found themselves in a ratherA unique situation when they were arrested for having a pillow fight, according to CHARTattack.

BILOXI, Miss. - A Biloxi woman has been ordered to repay the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for duplicate assistance to maintain two different houses.

A Long Beach man has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to order the state Department of Insurance to release records that would show the dollar amount of Hurricane Katrina claims denied by insurance companies.

There was a showcase of talent in Biloxi this weekend. Organizers moved the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival from the Buddhist Temple to Town Green.

Residents who attended the first public meeting on Biloxi's comprehensive plan Tuesday in Woolmarket complained about a possible Interstate 10 connector and praised bicycle and pedestrian routes throughout the city.

Two coast men were ordered to pay their victims back after pleading guilty to charges of home repair fraud this week.

Former Biloxi school teacher Rebecca Dawn Bogard, 29, will serve one year in prison for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old boy.

Gov. Haley Barbour has set a Nov. 17 special election date for the House seat being vacated by Rep.

Economist Loren Scott told business leaders Tuesday the recession "has been a stinker," but the Gulf Coast will see improvement and more jobs in 2010.

An early morning shooting Monday in St. Martin could be ruled self-defense, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

The economic outlook should brighten in 2010-2011 for the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, but that's not the case for the New Orleans area, an economist said Tuesday at a regional economic forum.

As bad as the economy has been, it doesn't have much to do with the way people feel about the places where they live, according to a new study conducted in Biloxi and 25 other U.S. cities.

"Gulf South, Strong and Proud: Insights for Success" is the theme of the 42nd Hancock Bank Gulf Coast Economic Symposium on Tuesday at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum Convention Center in Biloxi.

BILOXI, Miss. - A Harrison County jury has found that Biloxi television station WLOX did not defame a homebuilding company in 2006 story.