Harrison County News

Coast police say complaints about ads for prostitution on Craigslist.com, and recent local arrests linked to the online service, probably won't stop people from selling or paying for sex.

A D'Iberville man is held on $400,000 bond after a theft from a tractor business and a pursuit from Harrison County to Jackson County.

A Harrison County jury deliberated for 30 minutes this afternoon before convicting Mark Kee "Tupac" Brown of capital murder in the July 6, 2005, killing of D'Iberville resident Larry Darnell Turner.

A Gulfport woman has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in the 2008 slaying of her ex-boyfriend. A Harrison County jury on Wednesday convicted Andrea McKay of murder in the death of Vincent Weathersby.

A Long Beach father and son have been taken into custody on allegations of selling prescription drugs and one of them is charged with two counts of felony child abuse.

The way to make methamphetamine is evolving, and as it does, the methods law enforcement use to snare meth cooks have to evolve, too.

Three teenagers were sent to South Central Regional Medical Center around 7 p.m. Tuesday night after their vehicle left the roadway on Hopson Trailer Road and crashed into a tree.

Shelters will open Monday afternoon in Harrison and Jackson counties in preparation for Tropical Storm Ida, Red Cross officials announced Monday.

About a dozen children and their adoptive parents will participate in a special Adoption Day on Friday in Harrison County Chancery Court.

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI a ' Mississippi was spared the full wrath of Tropical Storm Ida, but the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reports there were damages.

Harrison County Sheriff Melvin Brisolara says a man and his girlfriend are accused of manufacturing meth at a mobile-home park in Long Beach.

Anonymous allegations about a meth lab at a Saucier residence led to the arrests Monday of Eric Len Newton and Tiffany Marie Crabtree, said Harrison County Sheriff Melvin Brisolara.

D'IBERVILLE - Undercover officers across two Coast counties came up with a solution to being recognized by the prostitutes and escort services they try to arrest or raid.

"A girl in the sixth grade pushed me down and I sprained my hand," said ten-year-old Marlon Paz.

Harrison County supervisors have found themselves in a catch-22 over the expansion of the jail.

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

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.

An investigation is underway into what caused a two-car accident involving a Harrison County sheriff's deputy.

Located on Orrell Drive in Gautier, the fourth marker in our series on historic markers in our county is pending at the site of the First Henry Gautier House and actually does not as yet exist.

South Mississippi's unemployment numbers continue to drop, according to information released Wednesday by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.