It really wasn’t that long ago that children didn’t have TikTok or video games, Connie Lee Cushman lamented. They used to play outside and be imaginative. In the early ‘70s, Cushman played outdoors all day under the Mississippi sun with siblings, cousins and neighborhood friends. They pretended they were police officers, bank robbers, cowboys, outlaws […]
A shark attack off Florida’s east coast left a man aboard a boat with a “severe bite to his right arm” on Friday, according to authorities. The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit found the victim with a critical injury when they responded to the shark attack at about 11:15 a.m. local time, the sheriff’s […]
Unless the case settles in the next few weeks, a jury will decide whether Beau Rivage Casino & Resort security officers used unreasonable force on a VIP guest who appeared drunk and didn’t leave when security asked him to. Florida resident Brent Nettles, who was visiting the Biloxi resort with family, filed a federal lawsuit […]
Capt. Freddy Gamboa is on a roll, thanks in part to a big sunfish. The Andreas’ Toy Charters captain has tracked down the cobia on two successful trips this week. The first one, a 45-pounder, was landed Saturday. He was back out on their trail three days later and got the second one, a 38-pounder, […]
As the City of Memphis worked to pass its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Memphis Police Department interim Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis took about a 12% cut to her salary. As the city passed its budget, including Davis’ pay cut, one of Memphis’ own lt. colonels was on the West Coast to speak with […]
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday night for a man last seen leaving Key Biscayne days earlier on his paddleboard to go spearfishing. Luciano Mercenari, 29, departed from his family’s home in Key Biscayne around 5:15 p.m. Monday and was reported overdue to the Coast Guard about about four hours later, according to […]
A “tension crack” sliced a portion of Highway 154 open this week — and the road will remain closed until Caltrans repairs it, the agency said in a news release Thursday. Construction crews found the crack over the weekend while repairing a slip-out in the highway. Highway 154 was closed in both directions from San […]
A Seabee stationed on the Mississippi Coast died Wednesday morning in a crash in Harrison County, coroner Brian Switzer said. Chandler Bean, 27, was killed when a commercial tanker truck turned and collided with his motorcycle, Switzer said. Bean was from Michigan but lived in Gulfport and was stationed at the United States’ Naval Construction […]
Tuesday marked the conclusion of a hearing into the capsizing of the Golden Ray in September 2019. (Photo: St. Simons Sound Response) A federal lawsuit filed in 2022 over the sinking of the Golden Ray cargo ship, which was carrying some $142 million worth of cargo when it capsized off the coast of Georgia, has […]
A boater found the paddleboard and some gear offshore between Miami-Dade County and Fort Lauderdale that belongs to a man last seen leaving Key Biscayne Monday evening to go spearfishing, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The boater found the items in the ocean about 7 to 10 nautical miles from shore, said Petty Officer […]
The slurs shouted through traffic were almost too hurtful for Neco Eley to believe. The hatred – hurled in racial epithets and threats this month from a white man in a silver Mercedes-Benz behind her – was so frightening, Eley said, that now she struggles to fall asleep. “This man,” she wondered, “really hates Black […]
The U.S. Coast Guard and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue are searching for a man last seen Monday evening leaving Key Biscayne on a paddleboard to go spearfishing. The 29-year-old man, identified by the Coast Guard only by his first name, Luciano, embarked on his aqua and orange-colored paddleboard around 5:15 p.m. Monday in Pines Canal, the […]