Long Beach News

Nearly 30 percent more shrimp boats were on the water as Mississippi's shrimp season opened Wednesday, according to a report from Traci Floyd, Shrimp and Crab Bureau director for state Department of Marine Resources .

LONG BEACH, Miss. - Gulfport Seabee and combat lifesaver Jerry Johnson heard a little girl yell, "Call 911! The baby's not breathing!" The Sun-Herald reports that Johnson ran upstairs and used CPR to get 19-month-old Ayden Ladner breathing again before the ambulance came Thursday.

RACHEL IRWIN/SPECIAL TO THE SUN HERALDOur Lady Academy valedictorian for the class of 2012 are Allison Ariatti and salutatorian Reagan Huey.

The Pascagoula River Audubon Center and Mississippi Coast Audubon Society have scouted five major beach areas where Least Terns are nesting and are asking beachgoers on this Memorial Day weekend to avoid disturbing the nests.

The city has decided it won't appeal a judge's decision denying the city's request to annex 5.4 square miles in Harrison County.

JOHN FITZHUGH/SUN HERALDBubba Lipe of Long Beach pulls nails from the upstairs porch at Grass Lawn in Gulfport on Thursday after removing the old decking there.

LONG BEACH - A former Long Beach football star is expected to stand before a judge Thursday and ask that his rape conviction be overturned.

As children leave school for the summer next month, Long Beach residents will head to the voting booths once again to cast their votes in a school board election - only this time just one candidate will be on the ballot.A After incumbents Gina Guma and Darlene Tangney tied for the second seat in the May 15 at-large election for Long Beach Board of ... (more)

The housing community at 215 East 2nd St. will have 40 homes on three acres in downtown Pass Christian, within walking distance of businesses, schools and War Memorial Park.

The party went on through a scorching day and into the night as Maroon Five closed the three-day Gulfport Music Festival Sunday.

The giant wooden pickle vats of Wiggins were dismantled in the early 1980s, sold as surplus wood and the Piney Woods town lost its designation as Pickle Town USA.

"The 2012 graduating seniors are the epitome of hard work and perseverance," said principal Peter Dabbs.

When I found out about Rick's Meat Hook in Long Beach, my mind went back decades to Jones' Meat Market in my hometown.

Coast students were well-represented Tuesday at the 2012 Annual Stock Market Game and Financial Literacy Challenges Awards Ceremony at Mississippi College in Clinton.

Long Beach High School baseball coach Mark Ross announced his retirement on Tuesday.

Ms. Ellen Peel, the much respected president and CEO of The Billfish Foundation, who has also served for three years as a U.S. representative to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas , has been named by President Obama as U.S. Commissioner to ICCAT.

Judge Margaret B. Alfonso and Cindy Alexander with youth court said the grant will be used to fund alternatives to detention.

Now that MDOT has made their best effort at removing the sand from U.S. 90, it is time for the cities to step up and do their part in removing sand from the sidewalks.

Lulls in the Gulf breezes and a few rain sprinkles threatened to put a damper on the 13th annual Kite Festival on Saturday, but the sky soon was dotted with more than 100 colorful kites.

Biloxi, Ocean Springs and Pascagoula were the only Main Street programs in South Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina.