Escatawpa News

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Louis Jackson, recognized for being Moss Point's first black mayor and for fighting to annex land that now contains one of the city's major commercial areas, was honored Thursday with the dedication of Louis Jackson Boulevard.

A section of Mississippi 63 in Moss Point will soon bear the name of the city's first black mayor, Louis Jackson.

In the next two weeks, the city of Moss Point and Mississippi Department of Transportation officials will dedicate two pieces of roadway to a former mayor and to a police officer killed seven years ago in the line of duty.

Pastor Richard Young ministers the word of God every Sunday in what is left of Greater First Baptist Church on Dutch Bayou Road.

Jackson County could save nearly $250,000 every four years by merging voting precincts in Districts 1, 2 and 4, the election commission told supervisors Monday.

For the third straight year, the Little River Marina in Escatawpa will be the place for food, music, games and a chance to lend a helping hand to three local children in the grip of serious illnesses.

"I'm not here to argue with you," said the Moss Point School Board's attorney to a crowd of irate parents Tuesday night.

The school district has been given approval from a federal judge to proceed with a restructuring plan that includes closing Orange Lake and Charlotte Hyatt elementary schools, the school board announced Thursday.

JavaWerks Coffee & Tea announced that it is featuring recent works from William Carey University Hattiesburg art students through the month of May.

Jefferson Davis County authorities are investigating the county's third homicide in less than a month after a man was found burned to death early Tuesday in the back of a pickup.

Church and volunteer groups from across the country are still using spring breaks and vacations to help coastal Mississippi residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

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The Jackson County Sheriff's Department arrested an Escatawpa woman in connection with the arson of a car belonging to a slain Jefferson Davis County couple.

An Escatawpa man was charged with aggravated assault Monday in connection with the stabbing of 35-year-old Farrell Stuart, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

New building should be nice The Board of Supervisors need to provide Pascagoula citizens with a building downtown that the citizens can be proud of for years to come, especially if this area is to be revitalized.

One man is dead and one is under arrest Saturday after an early-morning shooting at a home on Kings Road involving an ex-boyfriend and an ex-husband. The shooting took place at the home of Regina Vice-Hall, who called police at 6:40 a.m. Jackson County sheriff's investigators arrested Casey Dwayne Hall, 29, of Grand Bay, Ala., her ex-husband, and ...

The Moss Point School District is seeking approval to close Orange Lake and Charlotte Hyatt as part of a cost-saving restructuring plan that will result in the re-configuration of the remaining four elementary schools, Superintendent Kim Staley said Thursday.

Donna Richards discovered a treasure in the wood she and her family have pulled from the mud of the Escatawpa River since Katrina.