ST. PAUL, Minnesota, May 8 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Paul District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $31.7 million contract to LS Marine, Inc., of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, to conduct mechanical dredging operations in support of channel maintenance within the Mississippi River, April 17. This work will facilitate long-term channel maintenance dredging and placement of dredged material, or river sand, for the Up  more

GULFPORT, Mississippi, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Bay St. Louis man was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 68.5 grams of methamphetamine. Charles Jamaal Nichols, 37, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. According to court documents, On July 13, 2023, the Hancock County Sheriff's Office initiated a traffic stop in Bay St. Louis on a vehicle d  more

GULFPORT, Mississippi, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Moss Point woman and a Grand Bay, Alabama man were sentenced in federal court for their involvement in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 991 grams of methamphetamine. Linda Renee Mizell, 41, was sentenced to 75 months in prison and Charles Oliver Trahan, II, 51, was sentenced to 155 months in prison. According to court documents, in ear  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Neshoba County man was sentenced to 34 months in federal prison for possessing over 50 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. According to court documents, Marcus Tubby, Jr., 31, possessed with intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Tubby was indicted by a federal grand ju  more