Pass Christian News Archives

Mississippi oyster dealers say consumers can expect prices to rise if the Food and Drug Administration goes ahead with a proposal to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf Coast during the warm months.

The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has announced the opening of Areas II 'A' and II 'C' Conditionally Approved Waters to the harvest of oysters, effective today at legal sunrise.

The Toast to the Coast fundraising committee hit a high note with its creative and fresh 2009 Bollywood Bash theme.

The disaster of Hurricane Katrina still plagues Pass Christian residents who had hoped to be permanently settled months ago in Mississippi cottages.

A Bay St. Louis man is accused of burglarizing a rural Pass Christian home that was destroyed by fire shortly after the break-in. Myron J. Davenport Jr., 26, has not been charged in connection with Tuesday night's fire on North Pine Extension but he has been arrested on a burglary charge involving the mobile home.

A groundbreaking is scheduled Wednesday in Pass Christian for the new home for the city's Historical Society's headquarters.

The walls knocked down by Katrina's waves are standing tall again. A $6 million complex that includes City Hall, the public library and municipal court is about 75 percent complete, said Mayor Chipper McDermott.

GULFPORT a ' Two out-of-state contractors have been arrested for felony home repair fraud against Hurricane Katrina victims on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, according to Attorney General Jim Hood.

One hundred boxes overflowing with the city's history will finally have a home. A $1.2-million construction project will replace the original building that served as the Pass Christian Historical Society's headquarters for many years before it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Gulfport police have arrested and charged four people in connection with a burglary and kidnapping.

Sally James, director of Pass Christian Public Library, poses in front of the temporary library in... Sally James, director of Pass Christian Public Library, poses in front of the temporary library in Pass Christian, Miss.

Walmart reopens its beachfront store in Pass Christian, Miss., this morning. The chain opened a Pass Christian store in 2003, but the location was sustantially damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Walmart's grand opening celebration moved inside due to rain, but the weather didn't stop hundreds of people showing up to welcome the store back to Pass Christian.

At 8 a.m. today, the Pass Christian Wal-Mart will open its doors to customers for the first time since the beachfront retail location was devastated more than four years ago by Hurricane Katrina.

Heavy rainfall has twice interrupted this year's oyster season. But that hasn't bothered determined fishermen.

Harrison County sheriff's deputies have arrested four people on drug charges in unrelated incidents, two involving meth.

Shrimper Jimmie Rowell is pictured on the pier near where his boat, the Sophie Ann, is tied up Friday, Oct.

Andy Purchner is a Pass Christian fireman. On Saturday, he was my hero. Purchner had the day off.

The pages of the Sun Herald and its earlier forms record 125 years of the history of the coastal and piney woods counties of South Mississippi.

Hundreds of Cruisers dashed for dry shelter periodically on Sunday but Linda Spink of Pass Christian didn't need to run.

State Rep. Diane Peranich, D-Pass Christian, and Sen. Billy Hewes III, R-Gulfport, both got the old eyebrow-raise from the professional education community.

One end of the IBHS research center will feature an array of blowers that can blast a test structure with winds exceeding 130 mph - the force of a Category 4 hurricane.