Kiln News

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.

A 24-year-old Byhalia man remained in jail Thursday after being arrested and accused of trying to set his ex-girlfriend's Olive Branch home on fire.

A Kiln couple was arrested on a drug charge Monday after officers stopped to check on a stranded motorist and found one of them with 31/2 tablets of oxycodone and no prescription, said Sheriff Melvin Brisolara.

Three separate traffic stops conducted by Picayune Police Department detectives pulled in a number of suspects for drug related charges.

The county will have its own Junior Achievement organization by next school year, under a plan announced to the Board of Supervisors last week.

Public libraries will be changing operating hours so students and working people will be able to patronize the county's four libraries later in the day.

Mark Anthony Rice is escorted by Hancock County Sheriff Steve Garber, left, and investigator Richard Fayard .

The accidental cutting of an underground line caused the diversion of 911 calls to Harrison County.

A car chase to catch a speeder on Interstate 59 ended in an accident when the suspect attempted to elude law enforcement personnel by getting off the Interstate.

A long-distance truck driver was booked with capital murder and other charges Friday after he allegedly got into his truck and set it afire before deputies found a dead woman in the vehicle.

A "golden fiddle" donated by Grammy-winning musician Charlie Daniels will be given away in a drive to raise money for the family of a Hancock County deputy who died last June.