Froggie, the marble-eating Albino African Claw Frog, is home after recovering from innovative stomach surgery that allowed Dr. James Askew to remove three offending large glass beads - one clear, one turquoise, one blue.
Gov. Haley Barbour said Thursday his office will do a better job of responding to public comment if he pardons or suspends the sentence of an inmate.
Since boyhood, Dr. James Askew has admired Star Trek's Capt. James T. Kirk and his motto, "To boldly go where no man has gone before."
Paul Graves prayed with his family Thursday before a jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of his younger brother. Minutes later, he tried to hang himself in a holding cell at the Harrison County Courthouse.
Around the table Comments from the Sun Herald's Business Roundtable on Thursday:
Walk into any South Mississippi school this time of year and even though students aren't in class, teachers and administrators are busy preparing classrooms, making up schedules and getting the building ready for the upcoming year.
A man involved in a head-on collision that claimed the life of a 13-year-old girl was driving under the influence of cocaine and a prescription muscle relaxer, according to court records.
ATM maker Triton is up for sale. Its owner, the Dover Corp., revealed the sale of the Long Beach manufacturer Wednesday.
The cranes were motionless Tuesday afternoon, but Harrah's Entertainment says it's not stopping work on the Margaritaville Casino, just slowing it down.
A boater who fell overboard Monday night near Ship Island defied all odds, authorities said. Facing rough seas and high winds, he swam, he floated and he even hallucinated. About 19 hours later, he made his way to a Gulfport beach.
Iva Bevill, a manager at Brown's Trailer Park in Gautier, said Tuesday that Rodney Lasseigne, a suspect in his mother's beating death, had acted in an odd manner last week.
The new city of Diamondhead came a step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the proposed interim City Council and mayor crowded into the Chancery Clerk's Office to file an incorporation petition bearing more than 3,500 signatures.
U.S. House leaders assured an overflow crowd Monday night that they are behind U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., as he joins a conference committee to push for multiperil insurance coverage for coastal Americans.
Police are searching for a Gautier man accused in the beating death of his mother, whose body was discovered Monday morning.
Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday, stocking up on plywood, generators and flashlights as forecasters predicted the storm would strengthen into a hurricane later this week and make landfall.
Tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States have suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious spells behind the wheel that led to deadly crashes on highways. Hundreds of thousands of drivers carry commercial licenses even though they also qualify for full federal disability payments, according to a new U.S. safety study obtained by The Associated Press.
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Coast nearly three years ago, community college officials realized that it wouldn't be just students and faculty who needed help.
Tropical Storm Dolly sped toward the Cancun area Sunday, packing sustained winds of 50 mph and prompting a tropical storm warning for the Yucatan peninsula.
Months of planning for the Dixie Youth O-Zone World Series have come down to this: the opening-ceremony entertainment is lined up and umpires are ready to yell "Play ball!"
Firefighters and hazardous material experts spent the predawn hours Sunday working to stop a chemical leak on a truck headed from Texas to North Carolina.
