Hancock County News

After hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged Louisiana and coastal Mississippi, Galloway worked with the Hancock County Emergency Management Team in Bay St.

Hancock supervisors on Wednesday told a group opposing the establishment of a packaged liquor store in the North Hancock County's Bienville Community that they will set a public hearing on the issue, said Dawn Lee, one of the leaders of the group who attended the supervisors' session.

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI a ' Mississippi was spared the full wrath of Tropical Storm Ida, but the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reports there were damages.

Emergency managers in South Mississippi have not ordered any evacuations for residents due to Hurricane Ida.

Residents of Shoreline Park are dealing with rising water in advance of Tropical Storm Ida as dark approaches.

BAY ST. LOUIS - No Navy Riverines for the Stennis Space Center. The Sun Herald reports that Rear Adm.

Two inmates are no longer facing execution based on separate federal judges' rulings removing them from Mississippi's death row, but the state attorney general will ask that the decisions be reconsidered.

Deputies moved tanks into low-lying areas of Jackson County on Monday and several of the Coast's first-responder agencies brought in additional personnel in advance of Tropical Storm Ida's landfall.

A Hancock County dirt-hauling contractor, hired to supply fill dirt for the new high school, said he wants to save taxpayers money by using dirt off property he owns in Vancleave.

Several schools and facilities in Hancock County have reported early closures for Monday, Nov.

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.