Moss Point News

Several former Moss Point beauty queens responded to our Jan. 8 column featuring past pageant winners and updated their own history.

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Resurrection Catholic High School senior Meagan Elyse Letson of Moss Point has been named a 2012 Horatio Alger National Scholar.

City leaders agreed this week to swap several acres of land with the Moss Point School District , which will bring more recreation to the city's eastside and give the district ownership of ball fields it has been using for years.

Anglo-Catholic Chapel of St. Benedict: Sung Service of Morning Prayer from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, 9:30 a.m. Feb.

Past, present, and future students packed Magnolia Street in Moss Point to take part in breaking ground on the first new middle school in more than 40 years.

Forty-one-year-old Damien Jenkins of Moss Point was found guilty in a Jackson County Circuit Court Room Wednesday for one count of exploitation, officials said.

The Mississippi Press reports James Melvin Johnson, the last of four men arrested in the death of Jermaine Kelly, pleaded guilty Monday to drug and accessory charges in circuit court.

Moss Point school and community leaders this week will break ground on a multimillion-dollar middle school that will replace a Hurricane Katrina-ravaged facility, the district announced.

Bobby and Sue Perry are a lot like other proud grandparents; photos are scattered throughout their Gulfport home, chronicling the timelines of their three children's seven children of their own.

The Hurley trio Foresight has continued practicing the national anthem since winning the honor to sing at the Senior Bowl on Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile.

Keana Richardson, of Moss Point, pleaded guilty to manslaughter this morning in Jackson County Circuit Court in the shooting death of Tangie Armstead of Gautier.

The Mississippi Press reports accountability labels are based on factors such as achievement on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates.

The Mississippi Press reports accountability labels are based on factors such as achievement on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates.

In this troubled economy, many people who've never asked for public assistance before are having to apply for food stamps and Medicaid.

The president of the Jackson County Board of Supervisors told a room full of Rotarians on Wednesday their county is solid financially.

Downtown Moss Point will soon boast an attraction that will enhance its reputation as “The River City.” The Audubon Society has broken ground on a $2 million facility on 10 acres in the heart of downtown.

BP has responded to Gulfport's demand for $11.8 million in compensation for oil catastrophe losses with a five-page letter that says, in essence, claim denied.

The small crowd that gathered Saturday at New Covenant Community Ministries in Moss Point didn't come to hear a sermon; instead, they came to hear about education.

The Pascagoula River Audubon Center is moving across Interstate 10 to a 10-acre site on a bayou off the Escatawpa River in downtown Moss Point.