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With construction ongoing since October, the county's $10 million shelter project will include a total of four storm shelters of two different designs that will double as community centers for mixed civic functions.

The U.S. Senate bill's historic expansion of health care coverage cedes control of a much greater portion of the health care system to the medical and insurance industries.

Investigators went to the Pass Christian home of Brandie Ann Spiers with a search warrant Monday and found marijuana packaged for distribution, sheriff's officials said.

After meeting with a half-dozen legislators from South Mississippi, we are confident that this region of the state will be represented in Jackson by a realistic - and innovative - group of lawmakers.

South Mississippi lawmakers have big ideas for insurance programs, tourism and infrastructure for the upcoming legislative session, but the state also continues to deal with nosediving revenue, and possibly losing a large chunk of federal Medicaid funds, which will make money tight again this year.

A judge Friday ordered two Texas men held on bonds of $200,000 each after deputies allegedly found about three pounds of cocaine in a traffic stop on Interstate 10.

Police have arrested two men suspected of burglarizing a pharmacy and another man accused in an unrelated residential burglary.

After more than a year of planning, the new $2.2 million East Hancock Public Library is moving closer to reality.

The last Dine Around Downtown of the season is tomorrow at Bruno's Caf at Quality Seafood, 895 Division St., Biloxi.

School districts in South Mississippi will begin next week giving H1N1 vaccines to students.

Police on Wednesday charged as an adult a 17-year-old accused of assaulting an assistant principal at Biloxi High.

More than four years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Hancock County, work is finally underway on a community storm shelter.

Police arrested Brandon L. Walker of Gulfport on Friday on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a stolen firearm charge.

Investigation of alleged meth manufacturing at two different rural homes has led to arrests, including charges accusing one man of receiving stolen property.

Median strips to be placed along the center lane of U.S. 49 north and south of Interstate 10 will eventually make the busy highway safer to navigate, officials said.

Police arrested Gulfport resident Lee Edward McDonald on Tuesday, charging him with the burglary of a residence on Illinois Avenue.

Deputies and narcotics officers jailed seven people over a two-day period in unrelated cases alleging the suspects were found with active meth labs or the chemicals used to make meth.

Police arrested Tabetha McGonagill, 36, of Acworth, Ga., on Friday on a charge of uttering forgery after she tried to cash a check at Wachovia Bank, Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford said.

Gulfport police have arrested and charged four people in connection with a burglary and kidnapping.

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