Pass Christian News

The alleged "Pink Pajama Bandit" and his alleged accomplice were captured by law enforcement officials last week, after cops received a tip from a resident who recognized one of the suspects through the local media, Hancock County Sheriff's Chief Investigator Glenn Grannan said Monday.

The Economic Snapshot released today by the Gulf Coast Business Council shows the Mississippi Coast is enjoying steady, albeit slow, recovery from the national recession.

According to Doppler Radar Imagery, the waterspout was offshore near Long Beach and Pass Christian moving east at 35 knots.

The Walthall County Sheriff's Department along with The Humane Society of the United States are in the process of raiding a puppy mill with approximately 80-100 dogs, living and dead, on Magee Hill Road outside of Tylertown.

Fourth Sunday at Four this month, May 26, will feature two exhibiting artists. Each is a potter now living in Pass Christian.

The Pass Christian High School graduation took place Friday night in their school gymnasium, with students leaving their stamp on the school as the "class that cares." They collected coats for the needy, held a food drive and collected money to give to the Pink Heart Funds for the creation of a wig that will be given to a child with cancer.

TV reports that work is underway that should keep more sand on the beach and off the roadway.

They came by the dozens to the Singing River Healthplex Monday, filling out forms and then swabbing their mouths as part of the bone marrow registry drive.

Yesterday my husband & I went to the Pass Christian Harbor to fish it was a mess, Long Beach was and so was Moses Pier.

A traffic stop on a careless driving violation early Friday led to a couple's arrest on a charge of possession of precursors with intent to manufacture meth, sheriff's officials said.

One of three men accused in the fatal beating of Robert Trosclair handed a friend his cellphone and asked him to take pictures of the assault, according to testimony in the Harrison County murder case.

Notices for Station 1 in Lakeshore from the Silver Slipper casino to Poinset, Station 2 at Buccaneer Station near State Park Road, Station 3 in Waveland from Oak Boulevard to Farve Street, Station 5 from Fort Henry Avenue to Elliot Street in Pass Christian and Station 10 in Gulfport from Alfonso Drive to Arkansas Avenue have been lifted.

Buddy Clarke will be the Pass Christian alderman for Ward 1 and Victor Pickich will be the Republican candidate for Ward 4 in the general election.

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann hopes Mississippians will think Tuesday morning about veterans, soldiers still dying in Afghanistan and the recent bombing in Boston, then resolve to vote in municipal elections.

This advertisement for the Mississippi Coast as The Riviera of America appeared many times in The Times-Picayun3 in 1941.

More than 50 women on the Coast put on hard hats and took to the hammer this week, joining about 10,000 female volunteers across the U.S. taking part in National Women Build Week.

I have a confession to make. I have been thinking about this Mother's Day column since I began writing Bucktown and Beyond in September.

Visitors to this year's Pass Christian Historical Society's Tour of Homes will have the rare chance to peek inside some of the "hidden gems" of the historic city.

Bay St. Louis Mayor Les Fillingame and Diamondhead Mayor Chuck Ingraham will square off against challengers within their own party next Tuesday, when voters will decide who moves on to the June 4. general election.

East Central's Easton Marshall and Pass Christian's Regen McGee are the Sun Herald South Mississippi Players of the Week.