Andrés Fuentes is a New Orleans native and a 2020 graduate of Loyola University. He joined the WLOX News Team in July 2020 as a Multimedia Journalist.
Andrés is a proud member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and comes to WLOX having already won awards for his work as a college journalist.
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Like most career paths during the current pandemic, photographers weren’t immune to the pains of COVID-19. The photography industry had to change in order to keep up with the health crisis.
New regulations are now in place for golf carts in Pascagoula, and the police department held a drive-thru inspection event to make sure citizens were up to code.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic canceling most of the typical Carnival activities, it hasn’t derailed bakeries across South Mississippi from creating their traditional cakes.
A pesar de que la pandemia de COVID-19 canceló la mayoría de las actividades típicas del Carnaval, no ha impedido que las panaderías de todo el sur de Mississippi creen sus pasteles tradicionales.
Museums typically document history instead of living through it, but that wasn’t the case for the Gulfport Museum of History while facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carnival 2021 won’t look like the celebrations in years past. Cancellations over COVID-19 safety concerns have left some cities without any parades or other typical festivities.
It’s hard to describe a year that started off with Australian wildfires and a fatal U.S. airstrike in Iraq and ended with socially distant holiday celebrations, but a handful of South Mississippi beach goers try and reflect on the most memorable moments of 2020.
With soaring highs, come plummeting lows as South Mississippi families break away from the excitement of Christmas to clean up what’s left over. And this year, there’s a lot left over.
With every religious holiday comes more people heading to places of worship, but South Mississippi faith leaders worry that a surge in crowds could lead to more cases of COVID-19 throughout the community.
Gaston Point community leaders organized a drive-thru toy giveaway outside the Family Enrichment Center, handing out everything from toy cars, Barbie dolls to even bikes.
Jackson County sheriffs and other law enforcement agencies along the Gulf Coast now hope that new kiosks from the Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers will help solve cases in the region.
Hospitals across Mississippi are making sure they are ready to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when its been approved by the FDA, including Ocean Springs Hospital.
The project will connect Gulfport’s transit center, the Mississippi Aquarium, and Jones Park with an electric tram, pedestrian walkway, and bicycle path.
