Wiggins News

Wiggins police say a Tennessee motorist involved in a three-vehicle crash in which he and a college died was driving while intoxicated.

From the dirt roads of Greene County, Jones County Junior College alumnus Gary Jarvis has made his way to the capital of the United States.

Two men, one from Ocean Springs, were killed in a three-vehicle accident late Tuesday night, authorities said.

A three-vehicle accident Tuesday night on U.S. 49 claimed the life of two men, one of whom was a junior at the University of Mississippi on his way home to Ocean Springs for Thanksgiving.

A three car accident Tuesday night in Wiggins has left two people dead. Stone county coroner Mike Lott has told WLOX two people died in the Highway 49 crash.

BROOKLYN - Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Moore Funeral Home in Wiggins, for Gary Lee Sines, 65, of Brooklyn, who died Nov.

Merchants in downtown Wiggins are celebrating. That's because on Friday the city dedicated a long awaited improvement project on Pine Hill Avenue.

Some 30,000 tons of contaminated soil are being removed from the site of an old wood preserving plant in Wiggins.

The Stone County Economic Development Partnership has helped Stone County become among the first counties in the state to take part in the Mississippi Development Authority's asset mapping project.

A lawsuit has beenn filed against Garden Park Medical Center by two employees who said they were sexually harassed for years by a male nurse at the Gulfport hospital.

It was about 18 months ago at the groundbreaking for the largest shopping center ever to be built in Wiggins that a California investor predicted an oncoming "gold rush" of real estate development in South Mississippi.

Dozens of people in the Wiggins area received some valuable health information today at an annual event at Stone County Hospital.

The 2009 homecoming court at Pearl River Community College is, from left, seated: Forrest County Maid Daphnne Branch of Angie, La.; Queen Lauren Stanford of Wiggins; Freshman Maid Courtney Carter of Columbia; standing: Forrest County Maid Je'Nay Robinson of Purvis, Freshman Maid Porchia Rawls of Wiggins, Hancock Center Maid Jessica Rhodes of ...

Regulating strip clubs and tattoo shops is an issue getting attention in Stone County.

When Al and Stefani Alexander of Wiggins decided to enroll their son in a private school in Purvis, paying for two homes, sacrificing financially and being separated during the week were the least of their concerns.

Not even a week old, the Pregnancy Resource Center is looking to expand its reach into the community.

It's Labor Day weekend, and gas prices aren't bad for a change. According to AAA last year at this time, the statewide average for a gallon of regular gas hovered at $3.64 a gallon.

Five people have been arrested and four meth labs have been seized in unrelated cases in Stone County, said agents with the Stone-Wiggins Narcotics Task Force.

Convicted murderer Gregory Glen Ferguson of Biloxi was found dead at a state prison holding center and his death is under investigation as a possible suicide.

A woman was airlifted for emergency treatment Sunday evening after a two-vehicle collision that injured two others on U.S. 49 at Hall Street.