Moss Point News

Officials say at least one person was killed Friday in an explosion at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in the Mississippi coastal city of Moss Point.

Moss Point already has some great programs in place to help children from birth to age five, but it's working to offer even more.

The Mississippi Public Broadcasting show "Mississippi Roads" will be meandering southward into Jackson County in February, producers said.

Rain from tropical storm Ida fell through the night and was still spitting this morning as gusts made driving tricky on highway straightaways in eastern Jackson County.

MOSS POINT He sat among the crowd this year, wearing shades, a military ball cap and medal-filled jacket against the decreasing chill of winds still lingering from Tropical Storm Ida.

With some $450 billion on the line, accurate census counts count. Organizations, communities and volunteers are joining forces to promote the 2010 census count using innovative measures and lots of legwork to ready residents for the population survey.

The parade will process all along Main Street. Children barely old enough to play with toy guns or understand the symbology of the American flag will wave to men and women who have raised real ones in defense of the land held free under those stars and stripes.

Students from across Jackson County put down their textbooks Friday to get a hands on lesson about shipbuilding.

Cpl. Lance Shipman kept his promise. Moss Point's mayor and aldermen last week presented medals of bravery to Shipman and officer J.D. Savage, both with the Moss Point Police Department, and Lt.

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN Friday's edition of the Hattiesburg American which reported on two murder trials involving two separate incidents.

Lawyers for Jennifer Lisa Benton said in opening arguments Tuesday that she was acting in self-defense when she fatally shot husband James M. Benton four years ago.

Remika Patton's mother took the stand this morning in the murder trial of Frank D. Patton, who is accused of killing his wife.

The state Court of Appeals has thrown out the murder conviction of John Edward Johnson and ordered him resentenced for manslaughter.

Two Moss Point residents are on trial for murder in separate cases this week in Jackson County Circuit Court, with the first beginning Monday afternoon with jury selection.

Coast law enforcement saw a morning wreck in Harrison County involving the patrol car of a deputy with the Harrison County Sheriff's Department and an evening armed robbery at a store in Moss Point on Sunday.

A woman wounded by a deputy on Friday was distraught over the break-up with her former girlfriend, said Sheriff Mike Byrd.

"It just goes to show just because we go to school with him it does not mean we're the same," Moss Point High Senior India Tate told Michael Porter's daughter Wednesday.

Moss Point teenager Darwin Wells Jr. showed little emotion after being found guilty Thursday of murdering a Hattiesburg man.

PASCAGOULA Testimony is expected to begin this morning in the capital murder trial of Darwin Marquel Wells Jr.

Seven people associated with a medical clinic have been indicted for alleged Medicaid and Medicare fraud and federal authorities seized millions of dollars in cash and property in Mississippi and Texas, court records said.