Grenade found in truck near middle school - By FRANK STUMBO Parent pick-up and bus loading at Ocean Springs Middle School were delayed Thursday afternoon after Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies received a call about a grenade inside a maroon pick-up truck a...
School board to raise millage - By ROBERT DAVIS AND FRANK STUMBO The Ocean Springs School District School Board is expected to raise millage this week. District officials say they must add an increase of about five mills to combat the shrinking mill value. Accor...
- By ROBERT DAVIS Basic economic forces are at play. The seafood supply is down and prices are up. The wild card is demand. But now, a new debate has created yet another hit for local seafood retailers and wholesale...
White House sends out another BP bill The Obama Administration on Wednesday sent a fifth bill for $167.9 million to BP and other responsible parties for response and recovery operations relating to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. A...
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BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Earl's powerful gusts and driving rains are churning over the Outer Banks of North Carolina and starting to be felt in southeastern Virginia....
MIAMI (AP) -- Federal officials say a passenger has been taken into custody after screeners detected something suspicious in a checked bag at Miami International Airport....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Mostly notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don't end there....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site....