Flanaganâs layup gives Gulf Coast late win
Flanaganâs layup gives Gulf Coast late win By Don Hammack | March 8, 2021 at 10:47 PM CST - Updated March 8 at 10:47 PM
PERKINSTON, Miss. (MGCCC Athletics) - Mississippi Gulf Coast has been on the losing end of four last-minute defeats in 2021, including a heartbreaking 3-pointer at the buzzer to lose at Southwest the first time the teams met.
Monday night, the Bulldogs (6-7, 4-7 MACCC South) made a play and finally got a break. Melvion Flanaganâs acrobatic layup in the lane with 45.7 seconds left stood up for a 69-67 win at the Weathers-Wentzell Center.
Former Mississippi tribal official, wife, plead guilty Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, February 12, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A second former official of a Mississippi Indian tribe and his wife have pleaded guilty in connection with faked travel costs.
Kevin Edwards, 48, and Sheena Edwards, 45, of Walnut Grove, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to launder money and are scheduled for sentencing May 11 in Jackson, federal prosecutors said in a news release Friday.
An indictment handed up in September also had charged the couple with defrauding the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians while Kevin Edwards was a member of the tribal council, and with misleading a bank to get loans, prosecutors said.
Coast visitors extend holiday stay just a little longer
Coast visitors extend holiday stay just a little longer By Mike Lacy | January 3, 2021 at 6:41 AM CST - Updated January 3 at 6:41 AM
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - New Yearâs Day has come and gone, but the holiday weekend continues.
That means visitors from all over are staying just a little longer to take in the sights, and that sets a nice template for tourism season in 2021.
Debra and Alexus Lewis of Canton have been to the Coast before.
âWe often come down to the Coast, especially for the summer months,â Lewis said. âMy daughter loves the water. She loves the beach. So, we just come down, enjoy the attractions, the food and just relax.â