John Fitzhugh has documented South Mississippi for over 31 years as a photojournalist at the Sun Herald newspaper. He is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in journalism.
He is a native of Jackson, Mississippi. He is married with three daughters and two dogs. He is a big soccer fan and loves the Saints.
Residents of the Cherokee Forest subdivision in Pascagoula have been on the receiving end of industrial pollution from their neighbors at Bayou Casotte Industrial Park for years.
An A-rated school district deserves A-rated facilities. That was the message delivered by John Stryker, the new Jackson County School superintendent at this week’s board meeting.
Mississippi Coast leaders have supported the concept of a revived Amtrak line since it was first proposed in 2015. Everybody liked the idea of giving New Orleans tourists an easy route to visit Coast cities, but there has been a conflict between freight and passenger rail operators over the project.
A mural honoring those young men was dedicated Friday at The Bridge, a community engagement building across Division Street from the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Biloxi.
Breastfeeding rates in Mississippi are well below the national average, but one South Mississippi hospital is doing it’s part to increase those numbers.
Apartments, condos, retail, restaurants and maybe even some parking. All that and more is in the works in Ocean Springs, a city that just won’t stop growing.
Ocean Springs is growing and attracting more visitors every day. Those new visitors are making the already crowded roads more difficult to navigate, and then there’s parking.
Band families that weren’t able to travel gathered around their TVs Wednesday morning to watch the West Harrison High School Hurricanes march in the California sunshine.
Three drug overdoses happening in two days in just before Christmas has shocked the Pearl River County community. Preliminary investigation linked the overdoses to heroin that likely contained fentanyl.
Harrison County needs to shuffle some of its property around. In the end, they are looking for a solution to the aging county work center on Lorraine Road.
It's been 19 long years in a trailer for the firefighters of Biloxi's Station 7. Later this month, however, they will begin moving into their new $4.1 million station on Popp's Ferry Road to put an end of that journey.
