Latimer News

State Rep. Jeff Guice said Monday night that people along the existing route for Mississippi 15 want to keep their state highway as much as the people of Latimer want to keep it out of their community.

A Mississippi Gulf Coast family made sure a bugle was placed aboard the soon-to-be USS New York before she sailed from a shipyard in Louisiana this week.

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

A cloud hangs over what should be the excitement of a brand new fire station in Jackson County.

Plans to widen Dedeaux Road to five lanes between Three Rivers Road and Mississippi 605 could potentially mean the loss of 42 buildings, most of them homes, engineers told the City Council in a work session this week.

GULFPORT U.S. District Judge Walter Gex handed life sentences Wednesday to three defendants for a 2008 double-kidnapping that originated in New Orleans and ended on a rural road in west Jackson County with one man shot dead and another badly wounded.

LATIMER Hundreds of people flooded the Latimer Community Center on Tuesday afternoon, and they all had one question on their minds: How will the proposed MDOT plans to build a corridor northward from the coast affect my family and my property? Mississippi Department of Transportation officials are researching how best to devise a $15 billion ...

There is a big gap that needs to be filled. It's not cheap or popular, but engineers with the Mississippi Department of Transportation say it needs to be done.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation greeted a large crowd Tuesday night, at the second South Mississippi community meeting of the week.

JACKSON - The Mississippi Department of Transportation will hold several public hearings on highway projects in the state.

MDOT wants to hear from you on proposed roadway improvements. The public meetings will address proposed improvements to State Route 15 and portions of State Route 57 from Interstate I-10 in Harrison County to State Route 15.

Steven Lee Strange will spend the rest of his life in prison for the July 17, 2007, murder of his boss, Vancleave businessman Dennis Galle.

MDOT wants to hear from you on proposed roadway improvements. The public meetings will address proposed improvements to State Route 15 and portions of State Route 57 from Interstate I-10 in Harrison County to State Route 15.

MDOT wants to hear from you on proposed roadway improvements. The public meetings will address proposed improvements to State Route 15 and portions of State Route 57 from Interstate I-10 in Harrison County to State Route 15.

MDOT wants to hear from you on proposed roadway improvements. The public meetings will address proposed improvements to State Route 15 and portions of State Route 57 from Interstate I-10 in Harrison County to State Route 15.

Jackson County Sheriff's investigators charged a man and a woman this week with stealing lawn mowers, weed eaters, air compressors, generators, saws, drills and pressure washers from the St.

Jackson County Sheriff's investigators charged a man and a woman this week with stealing lawn mowers, weed eaters, air compressors, generators, saws, drills and pressure washers from the St.

Mississippi 15's route discussed GAUTIER - Southern District Transportation Commissioner Wayne Brown brought newly elected city officials in Jackson County up to date Wednesday on $140 million in highway projects coming for the county.

Nearly $150 million will fuel construction of new roads and bridges in Jackson County.

It's not something you'd expect to see on a map. "Here's the street in front of her house," said Raymond Reynolds of his stepdaughter's house.