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Hancock Medical addition ready

Feb 7, 2012 5:35 am

Hancock Medical will hold an open house and ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for the new 10,000-square-foot Swing Building addition and reconstructed Medical Nursing Unit -- a FEMA Restoration an...

Old 33rd Avenue High earns second look

Feb 7, 2012 5:33 am

GULFPORT -- Job Corps will hold a public meeting Thursday night to talk about its plans for $23 million in new construction on the old 33rd Avenue High School campus, although the school’s ...

Reeves noncommittal on schools’ rainy day funds

Feb 7, 2012 5:18 am

JACKSON -- Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves isn’t saying whether he thinks local districts should be required to tap into their financial reserves if there’s a dip in state education funding...

Inmate’s lawyers ask state to block his execution

Feb 7, 2012 5:18 am

JACKSON -- There’s little dispute that Edwin Hart Turner killed two men during a robbery spree in 1995 and then went home and had a meal of shrimp and cinnamon rolls before going to sleep. ...

Gunderson found joy in work, family

Feb 7, 2012 5:18 am

As long as she was busy, Mildred Lorene Gunderson was happy.

Dirt pit appeal denied

Feb 7, 2012 5:18 am

GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors on Monday denied an appeal by a business to open a dirt pit on Mississippi 53.

Body identified as missing Gulfport man

Feb 7, 2012 5:13 am

GULFPORT -- The body found floating in a creek bed Sunday near Coleman Road has been identified as Jay L. Bond, a Gulfport man missing since Dec. 1.

Supervisors consider projects for grant

Feb 7, 2012 5:13 am

STONE COUNTY -- Supervisors are looking to select a county project that could be funded from a Community Development Block Grant of up to $600,000.

Coast cousins to compete on ‘The Amazing Race’

Feb 7, 2012 5:13 am

Two Pass Christian cousins are putting their friendship and fortitude to the test on “The Amazing Race.”

Biloxi teen named state Youth of the Year runner-up

Feb 7, 2012 5:13 am

BILOXI -- Representing the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast, Biloxi High School senior Aesha Coleman was named first runner-up in the state’s Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year...