Local News

• Boil ban lifted

  Center Water Association has lifted a boil water notice for members living on Caesar Road, from the intersections of Caesar Rd. and Beaver Creek Rd., or any member losing pressure in that area.

  May 17, 2012

• ALLIANCE RISING QUICKLY

  Construction crews are at work quickly erecting the Alliance sand plant between Picayune and Nicholson along the Norfolk-Southern tracks.

  May 17, 2012 1 Photo

• Councilwoman Bumpers quizzes chief on what to do if you are “blue-lighted”

  Two murders in North Mississippi, believed perpetrated by a killer posing as a police officer, prompted councilwoman Lynn Bogan Bumpers to quiz Picayune Police Chief Bryan Dawsey at Tuesday’s Picayune City Council meeting about what residents should do if they see a blue flickering light in their mirror and a policeman wants them to pull over.

  May 17, 2012

• Pinero endorses one cent sales tax

  In Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Picayune Mayor Ed Pinero, Jr., publicly endorsed Supervisor Anthony Hales Sr.’s proposal for a one cent countywide sales tax, which would also be applied in the county’s two municipalities, Picayune and Poplarville.

  May 17, 2012

• PRCC GRADUATION

  Pearl River Community College held its 2012 graduation commencement exercise on Tuesday.

  May 16, 2012 1 Photo

Sports

• Gaudin returns to Hancock

  Rocky Gaudin is back as the head football coach at Hancock High school.
  He replaces David King, who left his alma mater after four years to become the offensive line coach at Biloxi High.

  May 16, 2012

• Blue Devils fall to Pascagoula
• Itawamba bombs River 14-3 in five to wrap Lady Wildcats’ season
• Union files grievance in bounty case
• NFL suspends 4 players for Saints’ bounties

Lifestyles

• South Miss. Branch Experiment Station in All-America Selections Design Contest

  South Miss. Branch Experiment Station, located in Poplarville, is one of 22 select All-America Selections (AAS) Display Gardens competing in the 2012 AAS Landscape Display Contest.

  May 16, 2012 1 Photo

• OES Carriere Chapter #105 installs officers
• ARBORETUM PATHS: Sweetbay magnolia and our glorious native orchids
• Bill Roberts speaks on N.O. Cotton Expo
• PRC Sheriff’s Department Chief Investigator Donnie Saucier

State News

• Ladners to stand trial in July

  A federal judge has ordered the government to identify alleged co-conspirators in a case involving a Hancock County couple accused of being involved in a kickback scheme related to storm cleanup contracts.

  May 17, 2012

• Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer
• 2 Miss. road deaths raise worry about fake officer
• Miss. gov signs bills he calls business-friendly
• Gov. Bryant names new economic development chief

International

• Australian billionaire: Titanic II to sail in 2016

  An Australian billionaire said Monday he’ll build a high-tech replica of the Titanic at a Chinese shipyard and its maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York, just like its namesake planned.

  May 1, 2012

• Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship
• Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem
• Theory of relativity called into question
• Syrian protesters attack US embassy

Opinion

• ‘Finding Your Roots’ good show

  By Cal Thomas/Syndicated Columnist
  “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is another of the Harvard professor’s wonderful television series for PBS. This is “must-see TV” and a more than worthy sequel to three previous projects Gates has hosted about how some of us came to be what and who we are.

  May 17, 2012

• Moral duties in a muddied world
• Colleges, development intertwined
• Prolific circuit judge relieved of duty
• Romney braces for ‘conspiracy’

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