Perkinston News

Virginia "Dilly" Roberts Fetterley, 68, resident of Gulfport, MS, died Tuesday, November 24, 2009, at home with her family by her side.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College prospect Damien Jackson has committed to continue his career at Ole Miss, ESPN affiliate Web site InsideTheGrove.com reports.

The "tough decisions" Gov. Haley Barbour recommends in his proposed budget for fiscal-year 2011 would put community colleges at a disadvantage providing educational opportunities to students locally, an administrator said.

A 32-year-old Perkinston man died in a collision with a tractor-trailer on County Farm Road in Harrison County.

The Stone County Economic Development Partnership has helped Stone County become among the first counties in the state to take part in the Mississippi Development Authority's asset mapping project.

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

Narcotics officers arrested two men and two women after finding precursor chemicals and hazardous meth waste at a home on West Echo Drive in Gulfport, said Sheriff Melvin Brisolara.

Andy Purchner is a Pass Christian fireman. On Saturday, he was my hero. Purchner had the day off.

Kevin Reed, 24, of Perkinston, has been identified as the boater who went missing Sunday after a fishing top on his boat collided with a low causeway near the Popp's Ferry bridge, Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove said.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has announced a $2 million Economic Development Administration grant to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College District of Perkinston.

Muscularity is probably not the first quality you look for in a goat, but then, if you're like most people, you're not concerned with how it would taste some day as a goat meat kabob.

A Perkinston man was convicted Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for shooting his wife in 2005.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College recently dealt with a swine flu outbreak.

Five people have been arrested and four meth labs have been seized in unrelated cases in Stone County, said agents with the Stone-Wiggins Narcotics Task Force.

Hattiesburg High School kicked off this year's Poetry Out Loud competition on Friday with a guest speaker and intense performances by various students and the 2007 state champion.

Enrollment is at all time high this fall at the Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

WIGGINS - Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Grace Chapel Baptist Church for the Rev.

WIGGINS - Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Grace Chapel Baptist Church for the Rev.

HATTIESBURG, MISS., Wednesday, July 22, 2009-Mississippi Department of Transportation 's District Six has begun a series of coastal area bridge inspections this week, with assistance from the MDOT Bridge Division.

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