Pascagoula News

July 9 - Pascagoula Police Capt. Shannon Broom says the suspect arrested for a bank robbery this week in Pascagoula has also been linked to a June bank robbery in Florida.

A Pascagoula man was arrested this week and charged with raping a woman 19 years ago.

A suspect in a robbery at the Hancock Bank branch on U.S. 90 in Pascagoula was arrested after a patrolman for the Harrison County Board of Supervisors spotted him on U.S. 49 on Tuesday.

The City Council voted Tuesday to adopt new building codes, updating the 2003 international series to the 2006 code.

PASCAGOULA Federal money left over from replacing the Ocean Springs fishing bridge, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, may go to bulkhead repairs, a pedestrian walkway and landscaping at Ocean Springs harbor.

A third suspect has been charged in the March 5 stabbing death of a disabled Orange Grove woman.

Pascagoula Police say the prime suspect in a Monday afternoon bank robbery has assumed the identity of a Florida man, as he continues to run from authorities.

The search is on for a South Alabama man suspected of robbing a Pascagoula bank Monday.

As Saturday afternoon gave way to evening, lightning flashed in the skies around Beach Park in Pascagoula, threatening a rainout of Independence Day festivities.

The Northrop Grumman-built Aegis guided missile destroyer Dewey completed its combined super trial last week in the Gulf of Mexico, the shipbuilder announced Tuesday.

PASCAGOULA As City Council members accepted an oath of office Wednesday, each promised to move the city forward despite challenges still remaining from Hurricane Katrina four years ago.

An employee of a Pascagoula assisted living center was jailed Monday on charges accusing him of sexually assaulting a patient, Pascagoula Police Capt.

June 29 -- A Pascagoula man is behind bars accused of sexually assaulting a 52-year-old mentally handicapped woman.

A Pascagoula man died over the weekend following a head-on collision in Harrison County.

Michael "Mike" Gilly of Pascagoula was recently ordained into the Permanent Deaconate of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi by the Most Rev.

June 27 - Pascaogoula police say three men are on the run and one man is dead after four stowaways were discovered aboard a vessel in the Jackson County Port.

PASCAGOULA Jackson County's Court Appointed Special Advocates for children welcomed five new volunteers Monday afternoon.

Trawlers heading out into state waters today for the opening day of shrimping likely will discover a middling season, said a Mississippi Department of Marine Resources expert.

PASCAGOULA - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's newest fisheries survey vessel is being outfitted at a Mississippi shipyard and should be ready in July.

One experienced and avid alligator hunter not drawn for the 2009 seasons on the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers still wants in on the action.