Kiln News

Thousands of Mississippi soldiers won't be home for Christmas because they're away defending our nation's freedoms.

Family members and friends of the Delta Company 1-155th Infantry Battalion will host a bake sale and fundraiser Saturday in Waveland with the goal of building a monument to honor the unit's 40 deployed local soldiers.

PASCAGOULA A Kiln man who won a $3.1 million contract to supply dirt for the new Ocean Springs High School was granted permission by county supervisors Monday to construct two 10-acre catfish ponds on his Vancleave land despite local resistance.

A tornado from Hurricane Katrina destroyed their mobile home in the Kiln. But the Daniel Mauffray family now has a brand new house, just in time for Christmas, thanks to the generosity of Methodists from Alabama.

Tony Wayne Ladner, the new District 5 supervisor, said his main objective in office will be to "serve the people to the best of my ability, return all my calls and keep our citizens informed about what is going in government." Ladner will be sworn into office on Monday at 9 a.m. at the supervisors' board room.

Local author Ross Bernstein has written nearly 50 books, many with a sports-related theme.

Claude Joseph "C.J." Mauffray of Kiln really loved fishing. "Fish," David LaCoste succinctly replied when asked whether his father-in-law preferred catching saltwater or freshwater fish.

Instead seeing of few homes in one place, house hunters by the hundreds spent Saturday touring as many model homes as they could fit into their day during the 14th annual Parade of Homes.

A Circuit judge has decided Leo Laurent Jr. can't receive a fair and impartial trial in Hancock County in his wife's murder.

The Cellular South corporate headquarters is located in Ridgeland. Cellular South announced on Monday a multi-million dollar investment that will bring an additional 166 cell sites into the wireless providera s footprint, sites that are sprinkled throughout 39 Mississippi counties in the northern and coastal regions of the state.A Representatives ...

Hancock County officials marked the ceremonial start of construction of four new shelters with a groundbreaking last week in Kiln.

Jeremy Rando has claimed he accidentally shot an acquaintance during a drug deal and raked the gravel in his front yard to conceal the blood, a Hancock County sheriff's detective testified Thursday in Justice Court.

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

Tuesday is election day for about 6,000 registered voters in Hancock County. People who live in the Kiln, a section of Bay St.

What do BB King, William Faulkner and Tammy Wynett have in common?They're all famous people from Mississippi and they've all been turned into Halloween heads.

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

Anybody who's ever wanted to see how artists do what they do is invited into the studios and galleries of almost 50 members of The Arts, Hancock County on Saturday and Sunday for the "2009 ArtsAlive! Studio Tour." It's a free, self-guided tour that started in 2004 and takes visitors from Pearlington to Diamondhead and the Kiln, to Waveland and ...

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.

The Hancock Chamber Business and Industry Expo is coming back, this time north of Interstate 10 in Kiln and with educational seminars to help business owners get through the tough economic times.

Plenty of people complain about the litter along the Coast and Saturday is the day volunteers can help pick it up during the Mississippi Coastal Cleanup.