Hurley News

Here's a look at news in South Mississippi over the past week. Read the full stories at sunherald.com and see video reports on Sun Herald TV.

The first 296 Coast students to receive the swine flu vaccine are kindergartners through fifth-graders in the Wade-Hurley area of Jackson County.

The approaching marriage of Ainsley Rhea Vice and Justin Robert Godlewsky, both of Hurley, has been announced.

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PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd says a deputy shot a woman Friday while answering a call of a possible suicide.

HURLEY, Miss. -- A woman weighing about 400 pounds and allegedly distraught over a love triangle was shot twice by a deputy this morning after pointing a loaded pistol at the officer, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

A former president of a Parent Teacher Organization at East Central Upper Elementary in Hurley was jailed Thursday, accused of taking about $3,000 from the organization's account, authorities said.

Here is a look at South Mississippi's news from the past week. Read the full stories at sunherald.com and see video reports on SunHeraldTV.

Jackson County leaders approved what they hope will be a solution to the hole in cellular phone service that has plagued one of the fastest growing areas of the county.

Southern Miss officials say walk-on punter Peter Wilkes has been killed in an accident involving a gun.

A man is charged with killing his girlfriend after he brings her body to the emergency room.

A Hurley woman was arrested on a felony charge of trafficking in stolen firearms after she allegedly stole 4 rifles and a handgun from a man who rents a room and a portion of her home, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

Four people were in custody in Jackson County on Monday, accused in connection with an early-morning stabbing that left a man critically injured, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

Thrill seekers from South Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama can challenge themselves in a corny way this fall.

An Army Corps of Engineers' report is recommending a $1.2 billion coastal restoration plan for Mississippi.

A paraplegic St. Martin man was jailed Thursday on a charge of cyber-stalking a Hurley woman and her two young girls on the social networking Web site Facebook, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

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Agents with the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County raided two meth labs Wednesday night in the rural community of Hurley.

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