Local News

• Ex-Picayune bank teller gets prison time for fraud

  Former Picayune bank teller Vonetta Jordan has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for bank fraud and ordered to repay over $117,000.
  On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden also ordered two years of probation after her release from prison.

  May 25, 2013

• Hurricane preparedness necessary down here

  Hurricane season begins June 1, and the forecast provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts an active season for storms to originate in the Atlantic basin, with a 70 percent chance of having 13 to 20 named storms.

  May 25, 2013

• Who’s ready for The Big One on New Madrid fault?

  It’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee. A quarter of a million people are homeless. The Memphis airport — the country’s biggest air terminal for packages — goes off-line. Major oil and gas pipelines across Tennessee rupture, causing shortages in the Northeast. In Missouri, another 15,000 people are hurt or dead. Cities and towns throughout the central United States lose power and water for months. Losses stack up to hundreds of billions of dollars.

  May 25, 2013 1 Photo

• PICAYUNE VALEDICTORIAN, SALUTATORIAN

  Chad Porter, the valedictorian for Picayune Memorial High School, and Tiffany DeVore, the salutatorian, addressed their fellow graduates at Thursday’s graduation exercises.

  May 24, 2013 2 Photos

• POPLARVILLE VALEDICTORIAN, SALUTATORIAN

  Valedictorian Samantha Gentry  and salutatorian Brent Breland agave the Poplarville High School class of 2013s final farewells before the class of 139 graduating Seniors received their diplomas Friday evening. (Photos by Butch Weir)

  May 24, 2013 2 Photos

Sports

• Ryan: Hurt feelings bringing him, Saints together

  Rob Ryan figures his firing in Dallas will only help him relate to a Saints defense humbled by a historically bad season.
  “I don’t like getting fired,” Ryan said Thursday during his first meeting with reporters since Sean Payton hired him in February to revamp New Orleans’ last-ranked defense.

  May 25, 2013

• Saints ready to practice with Payton again
• Wildcats honored for efforts
• Season ends for Maroon Tide
• Season ends for Maroon Tide

Lifestyles

• St. Paul’s hosts Third Annual Choral Festival

  There was standing room only at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on May 5 for the third annual Spring Choral Festival featuring singers from the four Picayune elementary schools. It was an opportunity to recognize and celebrate contributions to the vocal arts by the singers and their directors.

  May 25, 2013

• St. Barnabas Anglican Church dedicates Memorial Garden
• Troop return eminent
• Wreaths laid for Memorial Day
• Arboretum Paths

State News

• Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil war siege

  Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg — so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4.

  May 25, 2013

• Hurricane forecast: Another busy Atlantic season
• Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma
• Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
• Man wants pay for snakes seized in Miss. porn case

International

• Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis

  Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday and chose the name Francis, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
  Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals needed to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of Rome.

  March 14, 2013 1 Photo

• Pope Benedict VXI resigning
• Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
• EU summit ends without budget deal
• Govt to let Cubans travel freely

Opinion

• A hard rain is gonna fall...

  By Kathryn Jean Lopez/Syndicated columnist

  After disappearing during his term in office and bringing scandal to his family and state, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford is going to Washington, having won election to Congress. And that’s far from the worst story reflecting the current character of our nation.

  May 25, 2013

• Not your mother’s Ladies’ Home Journal
• Health care market needs oversight
• VA’s appalling failures not recent
• Dolley Madison politically savvy

News Distribution Network

• Boy Scouts: Yes to gay youths, no to adults

  The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its ban on openly gay youths but maintained a prohibition on gay adult leaders, a decision framed as a compromise but one that could lead to litigation and thousands of defections from one of America's largest youth organizations.

  May 24, 2013

• Okla. officials vow not to quit looking until everyone is found
• The Big One: Preparing for mid-America earthquake
• 5 takeaways from the IRS report
• Warning Signs: Technology speeds disaster alerts, response

CNHI Special Projects

A man check his car on Interstate 35 after a tornado ripped through Moore Monday afternoon.

• Audio: How can we better prepare for tornadoes?

  An NPR broadcast examines the question of how communities can better prepare for tornadoes like the one that struck Moore, Okla. on Monday. The broadcast features commentary from Michael Fitzgerald, who reported a five-part disaster series for the CNHI News Service.

  May 22, 2013 1 Photo

• The Big One: Preparing for mid-America earthquake
• Technology speeds disaster alerts, response
• Warning Signs: Technology speeds disaster alerts, response
• Tips for tornado readiness

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