Ocean Springs News

Now that city aldermen have approved a nearly $4.3 million makeover project for downtown and Front Beach, the real work begins.

Day 2 of the 61st Annual Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo was all about the cobia.

Art camp or science camp? Coast kids feeling torn between the two are able to get the best of both worlds this summer at Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs.

When it comes to putting more money in the pockets of city aldermen, reactions are mixed among Ocean Springs residents.

Dallas D. Gibson, 43, of the 6700 block of Washington Avenue, was arrested shortly after sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a fight at an apartment complex in the 7300 block of Tucker Road on Monday.

Nurse after nurse took the witness stand Friday morning. They were then questioned by lawyers about their patient's injuries after a sexual attack.

The Neighborhood Watch crime prevention program is returning to Ocean Springs after an absence of several years.

Authorities say an autopsy has been ordered in the death of a homeless man. Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says Biloxi police got a call around 6 a.m. that a man had fallen from balcony at the old Magnolia Hotel.

Authorities have arrested a former bookkeeper on a charge of embezzling more than $100,000 from the Home of Grace, a Christian drug and alcohol recovery program in Vancleave.

Gulf Coast Canine Rescue and Rehab is inviting everyone who likes fun and dogs to a one-year birthday party for "poster puppy" Hope, Saturday at the rescue center at 2011 Government St.

The Tiger Shark leaned helplessly against a tug boat, waiting for the next leg of its long journey.

Title: MIDSUMMER NIGHT TO REMEMBER Bonfires, beer, dancing, jumping over fires and all-night-long parties are a central theme to Midsummer celebrations in the Baltics, marked annually across the region.

The spending bill that Congress sent to President Barack Obama on Thursday includes $439 million to restore a 45-mile stretch of Mississippi's barrier islands.

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.

June 16 - A special memorial will be held this weekend for an Ocean Springs officer lost in the Gulf of Mexico last month.

Authorities have charged a Jackson County man with assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, Jackson County Sheriff's Department reports showed.

From the very beginning, life for four-year-old Joseph Spina and his mother Annette Kortman wasn't typical.

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.

Mississippi police officers are looking for a Staten Island man accused of producing meth in a motel room along state highway US 90 , according to a published report.

The Jackson County Utility Authority has been lacking one board director for about seven months and will be short another member after he resigns next week.