Dedeaux News

After more than a year of planning, the new $2.2 million East Hancock Public Library is moving closer to reality.

The last Dine Around Downtown of the season is tomorrow at Bruno's Caf at Quality Seafood, 895 Division St., Biloxi.

School districts in South Mississippi will begin next week giving H1N1 vaccines to students.

Police on Wednesday charged as an adult a 17-year-old accused of assaulting an assistant principal at Biloxi High.

More than four years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Hancock County, work is finally underway on a community storm shelter.

Police arrested Brandon L. Walker of Gulfport on Friday on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a stolen firearm charge.

Investigation of alleged meth manufacturing at two different rural homes has led to arrests, including charges accusing one man of receiving stolen property.

Median strips to be placed along the center lane of U.S. 49 north and south of Interstate 10 will eventually make the busy highway safer to navigate, officials said.

Police arrested Gulfport resident Lee Edward McDonald on Tuesday, charging him with the burglary of a residence on Illinois Avenue.

Deputies and narcotics officers jailed seven people over a two-day period in unrelated cases alleging the suspects were found with active meth labs or the chemicals used to make meth.

Police arrested Tabetha McGonagill, 36, of Acworth, Ga., on Friday on a charge of uttering forgery after she tried to cash a check at Wachovia Bank, Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford said.

Gulfport police have arrested and charged four people in connection with a burglary and kidnapping.

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Narcotics officers arrested two men and two women after finding precursor chemicals and hazardous meth waste at a home on West Echo Drive in Gulfport, said Sheriff Melvin Brisolara.

Police Chief Alan Weatherford said a section of Dedeaux Rd. is closed for cleanup of a sludge spill.

Harrison County Sheriff's Deputies arrested two people, who were charged in unrelated sex cases, this week for not registering as sex offenders.

Gulfport city officials are to be commended for taking the high road in their effort to widen Dedeaux Road.

Ernest Christopher Thibodeaux, 43, of Diamondhead was wanted on a warrant in a credit-card complaint when officers saw him standing on a street corner Thursday afternoon, police said.

Dedeaux Road has one of the worst traffic bottlenecks on the Coast, a consequence of the population shift exacerbated by Hurricane Katrina.

A busy South Mississippi road may finally get some improvements. Tuesday, Gulfport city council will vote on a proposed plan to widen a stretch of Dedeaux Road, but some people say it's not the plan they were hoping for.