Necaise News

The district attorney who prosecuted the James E. Billiot murder case in 1982, Albert Necaise, who now practices law in Gulfport, said that placing Billiot in the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield will "place a hardship on the metal institution required to house him." "I don't think they have the manpower or the security people there to watch ...

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

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

Narcotics officers arrested two men and two women after finding precursor chemicals and hazardous meth waste at a home on West Echo Drive in Gulfport, said Sheriff Melvin Brisolara.

A Picayune man was arrested for possession of a controlled substance after the Hancock County Sheriff's Department was called out to his location on a welfare concern.