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5 hrs ago | WLOX-TV Biloxi

Thieves strike Harrison County fireworks business

"They took three 500 gram cakes," said Any Mosely as he pointed to his limited supplies and empty spots on the shelves.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

NBC 15 Online

Some Harrison County Utility Rates Could Rise

July 3 - It might cost more for some residents of Harrison County to flush their toilets.

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The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Capital murder suspect richard lambert extradited

Capital murder suspect Richard A. Lambert looked straight ahead Friday and showed no emotion as sheriff's investigators escorted the shackled, small-framed man into the Harrison County jail.

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Related Topix: Long Beach, MS, Pass Christian, MS

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Sunherald.com

Ex-teacher faces more sex charges

Former Pass Christian band director Joseph Eugene Council faces a new sex-crime charge after confessing to a relationship with a second victim, police said.

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Related Topix: Pass Christian, MS, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Long Beach, MS, Dedeaux, MS

Mon Jun 29, 2009

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Homeless man falls his death from balcony

Authorities say an autopsy has been ordered in the death of a homeless man. Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says Biloxi police got a call around 6 a.m. that a man had fallen from balcony at the old Magnolia Hotel.

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Related Topix: Biloxi, MS, Biloxi Metro, Ocean Springs, MS

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Plain Dealer

Suspect in elderly man's death returned to Miss.

BILOXI, Miss. - A man accused of dismembering a 79-year-old man has been returned to Mississippi following his arrest in Cincinnati.

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Related Topix: Biloxi, MS, Biloxi Metro

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Picayune Item

Agreement reached in Miss. juvenile detention case

A preliminary agreement has been reached in a federal lawsuit that claims youth were abused at a south Mississippi juvenile detention center and forced to live in squalid conditions.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Biloxi Metro, Gulfport, MS, Pascagoula, MS

Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Clarion-Ledger

Dead zones imperil fisheries

Pockets of dead water off Mississippi's coast are strangling marine life - and growing.

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Related Topix: Mississippi, Hancock County, MS, University of Southern Mississippi, Waveland, MS, Biloxi Metro

Tue Jun 23, 2009

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Former teacher charged with child pornography, other sex charges

A former Pass Christian choir and Band teacher has been arrested on several sex related charges.

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Related Topix: Pass Christian, MS

Mon Jun 22, 2009

WDAM-TV Hattiesburg

Mississippi up to 105 confirmed cases of swine flu

The Mississippi Department of Health says the state's total number of swine flu cases is 105, and there are still no deaths.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Mississippi, Jackson County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Lamar, MS

Sun Jun 21, 2009

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Pearl River Co. making more meth lab busts

Officials say the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department leads the coastal region in shutting down methamphetamine labs.

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Related Topix: Pearl River, MS, Pearl River County, MS, January, Jackson, MS, Stone County, MS

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Investigators: Hitchhikers punched, choked & robbed Corbin

Thomas Corbin's daughter and other family members hugged and cried before the preliminary hearing started Friday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Gulfport, MS, Biloxi Metro, Jackson County, MS

Fri Jun 19, 2009

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Porn pics peeve Pass parents

Pictures of bare chested women, and stories of sexually arousing behavior have disgusted a Harrison County couple.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

Wed Jun 17, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Biloxi man gets 20 years in death of grandmother

A Biloxi man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the 2004 slaying of his grandmother.

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Related Topix: Biloxi, MS

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Sunherald.com

Meetings will give highway work options

The state Department of Transportation will hold three meetings this week on its plans for work Mississippi Highway 15.

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Related Topix: D'Iberville, MS, Wiggins, MS

Sun Jun 14, 2009

WTOK-TV Meridian

Mississippi Fair Housing Complaints

Temp: 82.0 F Heat Index: 89 F Meridian, Key Field, MS New figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development show a 65-percent increase in fair housing complaints in Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Meridian, MS, Gulfport, MS, Biloxi Metro

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Police link 21-year-old to car wash murder

Deshawn Brown twice gave police such a detailed description of Marshall Still's fatal shooting in a drug rip-off that he had to have been there, Biloxi Police Detective Mike Brown testified Friday.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Biloxi, MS

Sat Jun 13, 2009

WLOX-TV Biloxi

House fire kills Harrison Co. man

A Harrison County man is dead after an overnight fire. Officials with the Gulfport Fire Department say firefighters responded to a house fire on Old Highway 49 around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

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Related Topix: Fire, Gulfport, MS

Fri Jun 12, 2009

Fire Engineering

Tire fire forces evacuations

The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Middle Jun. 12--SAUCIER -- At least two homes in north Harrison County were temporarily evacuated Thursday afternoon after a Saucier man started a tire fire that spread over several acres, Harrison County Fire Marshal George Mixon said.

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Related Topix: Fire, Biloxi, MS, Biloxi Metro, Saucier, MS

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Sea breezes, air samples to be studied on coast

Scientists from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and students from Jackson State University are going study what happen when the wind blows on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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Related Topix: Jackson State University, Gulfport, MS, Biloxi Metro

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