Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality:

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted a water contact advisory previously issued May 8 for the following station:

●Station 10A -- Courthouse Road Beach in Gulfport ?

HARRISON COUNTY, MS (WLOX)- Millions of your hard earned tax dollars are about to be spent paying lawyers to take on annexation fights.

Four South Mississippi cities didn't like judge's rulings denying their annexation requests. Pass Christian alone spent a half million dollars in their quest for more land and just filed an appeal yesterday.

So did all of the other cities meaning more court battles are about to ensue

BILOXI, MS (WLOX)- Mississippi is one important step closer to opening this year's shrimp season.

On Tuesday, the Commission on Marine Resources gave the DMR executive director the authority to open the season, once the shrimp reach legal size.

Legal size is 68 count per pound and the shrimp are getting close to that.

Historically, the season opens around the first week of June. And it appears that will be the case in 2012.

Traci Floyd gave commissioners an overview of last year's season and talked about the conditions for growing shrimp this year.