Hancock County News

Hancock County officials marked the ceremonial start of construction of four new shelters with a groundbreaking last week in Kiln.

A federal judge ruled this week that a man on Mississippi's death row nearly 27 years is incompetent to be executed and should be sent to a state mental hospital.

Jeremy Rando has claimed he accidentally shot an acquaintance during a drug deal and raked the gravel in his front yard to conceal the blood, a Hancock County sheriff's detective testified Thursday in Justice Court.

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

Adams County voters will cast ballots for a new sheriff on Tuesday, one of several special elections scheduled around the state.

A new judge has been appointed to hear Diamondhead's incorporation case, after the former judge handling the matter died last month.

Tuesday is election day for about 6,000 registered voters in Hancock County. People who live in the Kiln, a section of Bay St.

It's hard to come up with an example that better shows the dual nature of awarding a project to a company with foreign roots than the ongoing controversy over a $40 billion Air Force aerial tanker.

Edna Mae Sanders of Diamondhead has been denied a new trial in the murder of her husband, who died after he was doused with hot cooking oil.

Mississippi Highway Patrol Corporal Johnny Poulos says there has been a crash on Interstate 10 Westbound in Hancock County near milemarker 18 involving an 18-wheeler and four other vehicles.

With all due respect to the grand jury, those who serve may be "watching too much 'CSI,' " said Hancock County Sheriff Steve Garber.

A Bay St. Louis man found dead in a submerged pickup Tuesday night drowned in a traffic accident, said Hancock County Coroner Norma Stiglet.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- Circuit Court Judge Roger Clark is considering Leo Laurent's request to be tried outside of Hancock County for his wife's slaying.

Thousands of volunteers swarmed nearly 145 miles of Coast waterways and beaches Saturday morning for the 21st annual Mississippi Coastal Cleanup.

Plenty of people complain about the litter along the Coast and Saturday is the day volunteers can help pick it up during the Mississippi Coastal Cleanup.

The toughness from growing up in Harlem as a first generation Italian-American stayed with Julius Campanali his 89 years, as did the unshakable belief in family and friends.

Continuing to serve young people with the highest standards while finding more funding sources are the driving forces for the board of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast this year.

An 18-year-old from Hancock County is charged with the murder of a friend shot multiple times before his body driven from the scene of the crime, said Hancock County Sheriff Steve Garber.

A Hancock County teen is charged in the shooting death of man found Friday in the Clermont Harbor community.

A patchwork quilt of antiquated seawall along the bay soon will begin to be replaced with a new, 6,500-foot-long wall that officials say will provide hurricane protection and double as an economic catalyst off Beach Boulevard.