Bay St. Louis News

The economy may be the Katrina that challenges South Mississippi's five new mayors who take office Monday, bringing more life knowledge than government experience to their jobs.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - A large construction project that's been catching the notice of motorists on Interstate 10 in Hancock County will be a futuristic new truck inspection and weigh station.

PASCAGOULA Marietta Murray's seventh-grade math students in Bay St. Louis often ask when they'll apply decimals and fractions to real life.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - In Bay St. Louis, the areas and structures that have been rebuilt, like the new Bay Bridge, are beautiful.

At his last City Council meeting, retiring Mayor Eddie Favre persuaded council members to hold off on passing a stringent new noise ordinance critics said would simply be unworkable.

After five years of pastoral and theological training, eight South Mississippi men were ordained this week as deacons in the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi.

Court records show a Coast man is an alleged leader of a drug trafficking organization and he's behind bars without bond, deemed a flight risk.

Red dirt flew into humid air Monday when officials broke ground for a new city fire station to be located on Mississippi 603.

A former school teacher is accused of enticing a 14-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit pictures of herself, police said.

This county's battered public library system still is smarting from Katrina's punishment nearly four years ago, but officials say things are looking up and moving ahead.

Though many cities along the Coast are seeing less sales tax revenue compared to last year, the decrease was smaller than last month's. Only Gautier and Bay St.

Officials cut the ribbon on June 2 to officially open the new Emergency Operations Center at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Workers have completed a $5 million project to expand and renovate the historic Hancock County Courthouse in downtown Bay St.

Circuit Court developments are anticipated next week in the case of Leo Laurent, the former Bay St.

Chief of Police Freddy Drennan released the following information: June 11, 2009: David W. Slayton, age 26 of 2708 Victoria Dr.

A story that began with a 4-year-old girl found wandering unattended through a neighborhood ended Wednesday when a jury acquitted the child's mother of allegations she was a large-scale marijuana dealer.

There is a yard sale sign at the corner of Beatline and Pineville roads for an event scheduled for May 2. It advertised a yard sale on "Daughtery" Road, of which there are none in Long Beach.

The safe return of the space shuttle Atlantis, apparently successful repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope by the Atlantis crew, and the naming of a new NASA director - former astronaut and retired Marine Gen.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- A new ocean sciences building has been dedicated at the Naval Oceanographic Office at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County.

When Hurricane Katrina hit, Bay St. Louis Mayor Edward Favre lost all but a pair of shorts, flip-flops and a T-shirt. He decided to wear those shorts until the city was restored.