Harrison County

According to Regional Vice President Porter Taylor, several crew members live in George County, including Lucedale native and paramedic Field Supervisor Connor Brown, who recently received Acadian Ambulance's President's Performance Award.

Damon Wilson, a native of Harrison County, serves as Operations Manager for George County.

He's been with Acadian Ambulance for 23 years.

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The Harrison County Sheriff's Office arrested three individuals on felony charges for trafficking fentanyl after a pursuit in Pass Christian October 1st.

William Harris, Petrance Fields and Marcus Price were all from Gulfport, each charged with trafficking a controlled substance.

The Harrison County Narcotics Task Force investigators conducted an operation where they identified the individuals as mid-level fentanyl distributors along the Gulf Coast.

According to investigators, the amount of fentanyl recovered during the operation could have resulted in thousands of deaths.

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Over 20 pounds of cocaine were found in Gulfport following a traffic stop on Tuesday.

Around 1.30 p.m., a deputy with the Harrison County Sheriff's Office conducted a traffic stop near the 33-mile marker on I-10 in Gulfport.

Inside the gray Kia Sportage were Chloe Rankin and Jason Acevedo.

The two were supposedly driving from Houston, Texas to Clearwater, Florida.

The man who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Lauren Johansson, pled guilty to two additional felony charges on Wednesday.

Bryson Rivers admitted to desecration of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence in Harrison County Circuit Court.

He was sentenced to the maximum on both counts, with the sentences to run consecutively to the life sentence he's already serving.

Rivers kidnapped Johansen from her home in Hattiesburg in July of 2024, then beat her to death at a nearby park.

He had dumped her body near Wolf River Cemetery in Harrison County and was captured by deputies as he fled into the woods.

With the plea on Wednesday, Bryson Rivers' criminal case is now fully resolved in both counties.

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So I didn't come back willingly, but I now have no regrets 'cause I'm so happy here, happy with my kids.

And for career, I am the Director of Marketing for Harrison County Development Commission.

Um, and we, um, do economic development, industry, so it's really great to be a part of something that can really grow our coast.

Yeah.

What, what do you think that looks like? I know you do marketing, and so messaging, recruitment, and, and you do as well.

What- What would be effective? Um-

So something I'm currently working on, so I'm Harrison County, which is, you know, the second biggest county in the state.

Um, something that I'm working on actively, they're actually coming to film in a couple of weeks, uh, is to really try and tell not only Harrison County's story better, and not only Mississippi's, but our tri-coastal counties are really fabulous-

And I'm sitting here going, "What am I doing with my life?" You know? "This looks awesome, these helicopters.

This is all great." And when I started the channel, about a year into it, one of the pilots for Harrison County reaches out to me.

He's like, "Hey, man, did you, um, do you wanna come out and do a video with us?" I'm like, "Okay." Well, you know, he's in Gulfport.

It's about an hour away.

So I, you know, pull off the little tab and, and call.

I'm like, "Hey, uh, I think I wanna learn how to fly helicopters." He's like, "Well, come on over and, and do it." And man, he, I hovered the first try, and he's like, "Are you punking me?" Like, "Are you...

Is this, are you serious?" You know? But I didn't tell him I'd, I'd hovered with the, you know, Harrison County, and I didn't tell him that I had tried it in DCS, which is the video game, you know?

Yeah.

Sure.

We're in Harrison County, 60 acres.

And there's about 25 acres of pasture.

And when we bought this property in 2012, the first thing I did was start planting trees.

Flowers and balloons now line the entrance to the AT&T store at Crossroads Mall in Gulfport, the site of a double murder on Labor Day.

Samuel Jerome Andrews of Harrison County pulled up to the curb Monday, armed when he got out.

According to witnesses, Shane Baskwell, who was an employee at the store, tried to lock Andrews out, but he shot through the door.

Mary Ann Oberlies of Gulfport, who was a customer, was also killed.