OCEAN SPRINGS -- City leaders cut the ribbon Friday afternoon on the long-awaited, $4 million city police department, jail and courts building on U.S. 90.

What: Krewe of Little Rascals children’s parade, sponsored by the city of Pascagoula

Most Americans are familiar with heart disease, but applying that knowledge to daily life and health is another matter.

MOBILE -- Authorities said a Mobile police officer was killed while taking to jail a robbery suspect, who escaped and later was fatally shot by officers.

What: The Ocean Springs Elks

What: The Orange Grove Carnival Association

GULFPORT -- Sixty-three students graduated from the Gulfport Job Corps Center at its winter commencement ceremony on Friday.

PASCAGOULA -- The 10 kids in Lori Warren’s preschool class at First United Methodist Church have been “Reading up a Storm” this year and are celebrating with books, books, and more books.

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- George Esper, the tenacious Associated Press correspondent who refused to leave his post in the last days of the Vietnam War, remaining behind to cover the fall of Saigon, has died. He was 79.

BILOXI -- Manuel Doria knew soccer better than most, wrote two books using a typewriter because he didn’t like computers and considered steaks at Cheryl’s Open Pit some of the best he’d ever tasted.

More troops headed in and out of Camp Shelby

Judge rules in woman’s case against utility panel

Prisoner escapes after dad’s wake

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge will allow a Halliburton cement specialist at the heart of decisions that led to the blowout of a BP-owned well in 2010 to testify -- against the wishes of BP.