By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A settlement has been reached in a racial discrimination lawsuit against a Mississippi Gulf Coast county and its coroner. David Owens, a lawyer representing six black-owned […]
By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A federal trial is scheduled to start Monday over claims by six black-owned funeral homes that a Mississippi Gulf Coast coroner illegally discriminates in favor of […]
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — The American Humanist Association is calling off a lawsuit against Harrison County over a Nativity scene in the courthouse lobby. David Niose of the American Humanist Association tells The Sun Herald the organization […]
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Harrison County grand jury has found no criminal conduct was involved in the deaths of two Harrison County jail inmates. Filmore N. Allen, 60, died Nov. 12, 2014. He was […]
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — Sentencing for former Harrison County Supervisor Kim Savant has been delayed until July 30. U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden reset the date last week. The move comes after the trial of […]
BILOXI, Mississippi (AP) — The state Court of Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction of Jeremy William Radau for the 2009 fatal beating of a 74-year-old Harrison County man. Radau was convicted in 2013 […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi health officials have confirmed five new cases of West Nile virus — two each Forrest and Hinds counties and one in Harrison County. That brings the state’s total so far […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to take a second look at an appeal from Jason Lee Keller, who was sentenced to death for the 2007 fatal shooting and robbery of […]
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — In October 1980, a woman was found dead in a wooded area of Wiggins. One month later, another woman was found dead in a wooded area of Harrison County. To this […]
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — Federal court records say a man has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit purses, wallets and other items in Harrison County.
Ousainou Mahanera pleaded guilty last Monday in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. Sentencing is set for Jan. 27. He was indicted Aug. 20, but the case was sealed until his arrest in New Orleans in September… […]
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