Officials say at least one person was killed Friday in an explosion at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in the Mississippi coastal city of Moss Point.

Harrah's Entertainment may need financial partners if it wants to build the Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi with the size and scope originally intended, says a

A high school economics teacher was arrested for growing marijuana in his home. Police found weed packaged and ready for use when they entered Patrick Walker's

Proposals to merge some universities or consolidate school districts have grabbed most of the attention since Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour unveiled his

Ocean Springs police are searching for a suspect in a robbery at First Bank & Trust on U.S. Highway 90.

A four wheeler accident over the weekend claimed the life of a teenager in Northwestern Walton County.

South Mississippi's Jackson County is trying to relieve jail crowding by paying another county to house about 55 of its inmates.

The attorney for Nick Tran claims that race is a factor in the federal case against the Biloxi pharmacist.

Jackson County Mississippi has reported the effects that recent storms had on the area. Road conditions are improving throughout the county as Tropical

Mississippi's uninsured and underinsured can receive free swine flu medication.

The Coast Guard Captain of the Port here has established Port Condition Zulu, essentially closing the ports of Gulfport, Pascagoula, Mobile, Pensacola, and

The U.S. Coast Guard has taken delivery of the second in a new class of cutters built by Northrop Grumman Corp.

An undercover effort involving police agencies from all along the Gulf Coast that targeted escort service and individuals listed on Craig's List resulted in

Police recovered two meth labs, various chemicals, hypodermic needles, drug paraphenelia and pornography at a home on Stennis Avenue. What makes this drug bust

A Mississippi man faces paying millions in fines and up to 60 years in prison, all for manufacturing meth near a daycare. His mother, father and a daycare