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A new casino could potentially be making its home along Highway 90 in Biloxi, pending a site approval from the Mississippi Gaming Commission. On Thursday’s meeting, the Mississippi Gaming Commission will address the Tullis Gardens Hotel and Casino’s request for a site approval. The proposed casino would be located just west of Harrah’s Gulf Coast, along HWY 90 and Oak St. If approved, the potential casino could have 300 hotel rooms, over 900 slot machines, and a 53,280 square floor casino floor.

Biloxi has eight casinos and developers hope to open two more at the beach in east Biloxi. Here’s what the companies plan to build.

Clowder then allegedly got behind the wheel and drove to a local church where the two had a “makeshift wedding” outside on the church steps, according to authorities.

Looking for an interesting local history tour? Mark your calendar for Sat. Oct. 19 as the Griffin Cemetery’s 12th Annual Historic Tour will memorialize several local leaders and legends. Costumed re-enactors will present the stories of several souls resting in Moss Point’s circa 1848 cemetery. The tour is not...

Among the Dirt Cheap stores closing is a ‘super lux” store opened in Gulfport in 2023. Liquidation sales have already started.

An Ocean Springs man is in jail after a Saturday night standoff with law enforcement. Ocean Springs Police Chief Ryan LeMaire said 58-year-old James Ball had outstanding warrants for aggravated assault and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Police say he locked himself in his home in the...

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Video captured in the Bankhead Tunnel shortly after midnight Friday appears to show a car trying to swerve around an ALDOT ASAP truck, narrowly avoiding oncoming traffic, then hitting the wall. Seconds later, the emergency lights on the ALDOT truck are activated. ALDOT says the car hit the back bumper and fender of the truck, heavily damaging it, but the worker inside, who was patrolling the area, was not hurt. The video appears to show two men who were in the car that crashed get out. Approximately two minutes later, one man is seen walking out of the tunnel. About a minute later, a second man in a ball cap follows him out. Two people familiar with the crash told us they hid in nearby bushes.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Two men from India who are in the country illegally were sentenced in federal court in Mobile to nearly four years in prison for trafficking fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced. U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose on...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The first shift at Ingalls Shipbuilding starts two hours before dawn in the summer. Around 4 a.m. workers begin to arrive at the 800-acre shipyard – an incongruous white square in the middle of brown-green Mississippi swampland. Welders, pipefitters, machinists and painters hustle to work on ships that tower skyscraper-high over the concrete of the shipyard.

GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. (WALA) - A coordinated effort by deputies from George County, Miss., along with Mobile County deputies led to the capture a 35-year-old Moss Point, Miss., man in connection with a vehicle reported stolen out of Jackson County, Miss. The suspect, Robert Earl Coleman Jr. faces multiple charges.

Moss Point was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their seventh straight loss. They lost to the Bay Tigers on the road by a 46-27 margin. The result was an unpleasant reminder to Moss Point of the 37-34 defeat they experienced in the pair's previous head-to-head fixture back in October of 2023.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Late Saturday night, a large police presence was seen responding to an incident on Halstead Road in Ocean Springs. As of now, details regarding the incident are limited. However, multiple people on social media reported a large first responder presence. Police, fire trucks, and EMS...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile man is facing several charges after a shooting before dawn Sunday in downtown Mobile. Police say they responded to the report of a shooting near Club Love on Dauphin Street Sunday morning just before 2 a.m. Around the same time a man with life-threatening injuries arrived by private vehicle […]

Former Biloxi councilman Robert Deming reported to a federal prison to serve his six-year sentence.

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - Cruisin’ the Coast 2024 was one for the books, as 9,961 cruisers registered for this year’s event. WLOX made their way across every South Mississippi city, from the Long Beach Block Party to Cruisin’ the River City in Moss Point, and the Biloxi Block Party that had cruisers coming out to find a spot at Biloxi Town Green before the sun came up.

(WALA) - A blast of colder air is on the way for the middle of the week bringing in some of the coolest air of the fall season. Temperatures will be fairly mild in the short term, but the air starts to arrive on Tuesday night. Overnight lows will be...

The above video was provided to WKRG by the Mobile Police Department. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile Police Department is investigating the latest in a series of similar incidents after Halloween decorations were reportedly stolen Thursday from a front porch. According to the MPD, the latest incident happened around 10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. […]

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile Police Department is investigating after a vehicle was struck by gunfire during a Friday shooting. According to a department news release, officers responded to the 400 block of Holcombe Avenue around 5:49 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, for a report of shots fired. INCIDENT LOCATION: Officers arrived and found […]

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - As of Friday, construction has begun to make repairs to the Beachview Bridge. While improvements are necessary for both efficiency and safety, owners of both Funky Monkey and The Bayou Dockside Bar & Grill say the closure is causing a heavy decline in traffic to their establishments.

Some clouds over parts of South MS heading into the early afternoon hours but some areas are seeing sunshine as well. High temps today should reach the 80s but the clouds may keep most of our temps below 90. A cold front will arrive from the north tonight. This front will bring drier weather with cooler mornings. Tonight’s lows will be in the 60s and 50s. Tomorrow’s highs will be in the mid to lower 80s which is not as hot as today. And then tomorrow night’s lows will be chillier with 50s and even a few 40s possible inland. Rain is hard to come by in South MS over the next seven days. October is typically our driest month of the year. In the tropics, there are currently no tropical systems in the Gulf, Caribbean, and Atlantic. There’s a tropical wave, called Invest 94L, in the central tropical Atlantic being monitored for possible tropical development. 94L has a chance to become a new depression or storm as it moves westward in the Atlantic over the next seven days. The next name on the list is Nadine. Currently, there are zero credible tropical concerns to the MS Coast over the next seven days. Hurricane season officially ends on November 30.