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The apartment complex was reported, by local news sources, to have collapsed with dozens of residents inside. FOX News also reported deaths at the Quiet Water Beach apartments. [65] (A later investigation by Biloxi's WLOX could not confirm any deaths at these apartments. [72] Rebuilding in Harrison County proceeded at different paces in ...
The death toll in the Biloxi area was reported to be at least 100, ... Surge in Mississippi peaked at 8.9 feet at Biloxi, bringing heavy damage to the coast.
It didn't take long for a Harrison County jury to find a Biloxi man guilty of capital murder in the death of his 2-year-old stepson. Joseph David Heard, 41, was convicted of murdering Hayden Lee ...
Peter J. Halat Jr. (born July 27, 1942) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the twelfth mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi, [1] and was later convicted and served time for his involvement in a criminal conspiracy which led to the 1987 murders of Halat's former law partner, Mississippi judge Vincent Sherry, and Sherry's wife Margaret, a Biloxi city councilwoman. [2]
Authorities are also investigating two deaths in Austin as potentially cold-related, though the medical examiner’s office has not confirmed the causes. ... Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport ...
The official death toll was raised to 1,036, with 63 additional deaths recognized in Louisiana. This marked the first time since 1928 that a natural disaster in the U.S. had been officially acknowledged to have killed at least 1,000 people. State-by-state death tolls: Louisiana 799, Mississippi 218, Florida 14, Alabama 2, Georgia 2, Tennessee 1.
Hurricane Frederic, known in Latin America as Federico, [1] was an intense and damaging tropical cyclone that carved a path of destruction from the Lesser Antilles to Quebec, in particular devastating areas of the United States Gulf Coast.
Nine deaths were attributed to the hurricane in four states and on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and 134 people along Elena's path were hospitalized, many of them due to storm-related stress. [36] Power outages plagued the entire region, affecting about 550,000 customers. [37]