Moss Point News

The Cultural Arts Festival was flavored with sights and sounds from across the globe Thursday.

MOSS POINT The city's first female mayor took office at an inauguration ceremony Friday, promising change and a "successful administration" to residents.

Family, friends and colleagues of slain Moss Point Police Officer Larry Dewayne Lee are among those expected to celebrate tonight the state Department of Transportation's official announcement dedicating a section of Interstate 10 as the Larry Dewayne Lee Memorial Highway.

MOSS POINT, Miss. -- A segment of Mississippi Highway 63 in Moss Point will be designated Thursday as the "Officer Larry DeWayne Lee Memorial Highway." The Mississippi Department of Transportation ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. in the Pelican Landing Conference Center.

A Moss Point woman acting as a caregiver for a disabled Biloxi man is accused of stealing nearly $6,000 of his money, police said Friday.

A taxiway linking the Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems Center to the Trent Lott International Airport should be fully operational soon.

Some young ladies are learning proper etiquette during a three week summer course by the Moss Point Visionary Circle mentor group.

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.

June 25 - The Jackson County Sheriff's Office says a sex offender failed to comply with Mississippi state registration requirements, and now, he is behind bars.

MOSS POINT Keeping cool this summer will be a little easier for Moss Point, Hurley and St.

A South Mississippi state representative says after months of hold outs, the state legislature may finally be ready to pass a budget.

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

A Mobile man was arrested on a child endangerment charge because a sheriff's deputy suspected he was driving while impaired with a child in his vehicle, according to Jackson County Sheriff's Department reports.

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.

Jackson County leaders have decided to merge several polling places before the next election, saving the county more than $223,000 every four years and eliminating temporary buildings the county has been using as polling places since Katrina.

When the Army Reserve's 296th Transportation Company heads off next week to train for duty in Iraq, it will be leaving with a south Mississippi farewell.

Operation Moon Burn, a three-month countywide undercover operation, resulted in the arrests of 52 alleged drug dealers Wednesday, including Lederrick Raphel Brown, authorities said.

A three-month undercover investigation dubbed Operation Moon Burn has resulted in narcotics agents identiying 116 suspects in 207 different drug buys, with 43 suspects already in custody by 3 p.m. today, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said this afternoon.

A Moss Point man was allegedly intoxicated and trying to break out windows of a patrol car when a sheriff's deputy pepper sprayed him after his arrest over the weekend on a felony arson charge, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.

When the new city boards take office in July, one of their first decisions will be whether to keep the appointed staffs that help run the government.