Sandhill News

While it was a mostly sunny day across the Gulf Coast Monday, that was not the case in an area of northwest Jackson County.

The six cranes arrived Tuesday at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge.

State and Jackson County authorities are dealing with a massive wildfire in Moss Point.

A 72-year-old Sandhill man was killed Monday in a crash involving an 18-wheeler, Rankin County officials said.

Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol spokesman Cpl. Odis Easterling tells The Clarion-Ledger Cay Ausley was driving a pickup north in the southbound lane when his truck collided with a trailer being pulled by another pickup driven by 34-year-old William Murtagh III of Brandon.