Mike Lacy was a print journalist for 37 years before joining the WLOX team. Most of his career he spent as a writer, editor and page designer at the Sun Herald newspaper. His work has been published regionally and nationally in such newspapers as the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald.
Mike has a master's degree in mass communications and also teaches journalism at Tulane University's Mississippi Coast campus.
In addition, Mike has been working in performing arts for 30 years and has been an acting teacher/coach for nearly a decade. He is also a writer, director and performer with several murder mystery dinner theater companies.
He is married to Carol Lacy, and they have a son, Blake.
The U.S. Air Force has declared 2019 as the Year of the Defender, and what better way to showcase the tenets of the 81st Security Forces at Keesler Air Force Base than a challenge - both physical and mental.
Bayou View Elementary in Gulfport shined in the spotlight as the No. 1 individual school in the state for students performing at advanced levels in both English and math.
Carlos Moore, an attorney and municipal court judge in Clarksdale, traveled to Moss Point after learning his relative, Toussaint Diamon Sims, was fatally shot.
Thursday presents a sad moment for an institution of higher learning that has been on the Gulf Coast for 18 years, as it was the last day of classes for the Tulane University campus in Biloxi.
In the last weekend before election day, the two Republican candidates, Biloxi councilwoman Dixie Newman and former state representative Scott DeLano, are getting off the computer and walking down the neighborhoods.
The tragic drownings of three teenagers on Thursday are weighing heavily on the minds of many, including those who love Dedeaux Park, but it hasn’t stopped them from coming back.
Unmanned, autonomous surface vehicle company Saildrone joined the University of Southern Mississippi and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as co-test pilots of a first-of-its-kind study that could change the world’s oceans as we know it.
While the departure of Rouses left a big retail hole at its former location in Handsboro Square in Gulfport, it’s nothing the plaza hasn’t had to recover from.
In addition to emergency response and crisis training, the Harrison County School District is making technological and structural changes to help keep children and staff safer this year.
Hancock County has had an ongoing problem with illegal tire dumping. While signage has helped with the issue, the county has now installed security cameras to help keep the dumping under control.
The Pebble Creek neighborhood in Gulfport looked like a disaster area in October 2017. Frightened neighbors had to be saved by swift water rescue first responders.
The rebuilding of East Biloxi’s roads and sewer lines just hit another snag. And this snag pits the city against the federal agency paying for the $355 million project.
A loan deal fell through at the last minute, and the course was set for foreclosure on July 8. But the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week has kept the grounds open for now.
Ridgecrest, California, was hit hard by two powerful earthquakes on Thursday and Friday, the second - a magnitude 7.1 - being felt throughout the region.
The $100,000 feasibility study, which is by the company CSL and paid for by the city’s development partner BBR Biloxi, is for a convention center, hotel and amphitheater.
