Ray Price
Reporter
Biloxi, MS
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Ray Price is a New Orleans native and news has always been a big part of his life. While other two-year-olds were reading Dr. Seuss and watching Saturday morning cartoons, Ray was reading the Times-Picayune and watching early morning news shows.
He joined the WLOX News Team after graduating from Loyola University New Orleans. He is also a proud alumnus of Brother Martin High School.
Before coming to South Mississippi, Ray worked for the New Orleans Pelicans, and Crimestoppers of New Orleans. Ray also spent two years polishing his journalism skills as an intern at WDSU where he helped cover the Lafayette theatre shooting, high profile trials, and Mardi Gras.
Some fun facts about Ray: He is fluent in French, is a published fashion model and actor, has a twin sister, and loves to watch Jeopardy.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2019 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Some Biloxi business owners quickly learned that rolling out the welcome mat for Cruisin' the Coast cost them a citation from the city’s Department of Community Development.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2019 at 8:25 PM CDT
|By Ray Price and Tristan Ruppert
Sunday was the first day of the 23rd Annual Cruisin’ the Coast.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2019 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The Commission on Marine Resources voted recently to officially shut down any oyster harvesting for the rest of the 2019-2020 season due to oyster mortality rates reaching nearly 100%.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2019 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The Pascagoula River Tribe is trying to find ways to rediscover their native roots. The Live Oak Historical Festival featured stories, traditional songs, and ended things with a hoop prayer dance that people had the chance to learn on their own.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2019 at 8:00 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
How do you get young people interested in maybe pursuing a career in the aviation or automotive industry? Put them right behind the cockpit of a plane if they want to be pilots or have them look under the hood of a flashy sports car.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2019 at 5:38 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Ocean Springs not too long ago passed an ordinance allowing the use of carts. Similar ordinances exist to allow golf carts to be driven in Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach and Pascagoula.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2019 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The point of Ocean Spring's Rally for Recovery was to give those suffering from addiction or other struggles a way to access help and additional resources on their road to recovery.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2019 at 7:35 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Before Cruisin the Coast can get started, other events around South Mississippi are giving people a chance to show off their prized vehicles.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2019 at 5:50 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Hundreds of people lined up on Saturday hoping to snag a job at Ingalls Shipbuilding.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2019 at 7:15 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
Operation Barbecue Relief is on standby to feed people if they get deployed as Hurricane Dorian prepares to hit the Atlantic coast.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2019 at 6:21 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The group wants to see Mississippi state prisons cleaned up from the top to the bottom, inside and out and see that correctional facilities strive to be corrective rather than totally punitive.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2019 at 6:07 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Mississippi National Guard’s largest unit, the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, changed commanders Sunday.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2019 at 7:31 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
The Head Start program in Harrison County has 92 jobs available. Applicants from all backgrounds will be considered.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2019 at 6:26 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The Wounded Warrior Project took veterans out on the Pascagoula River to catch some red snapper Saturday. It was the first time the Mississippi coast group had a fishing tournament.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2019 at 3:36 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The Women’s Resource Center in Gulfport received a donation from the children of Handsboro Baptist Church on Sunday.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2019 at 6:53 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
On Saturday, the American Martial Art and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy opened its doors for a Parent & Child Anti-Bullying Workshop, teaching them how to protect themselves against common attacks like punches and rear tackles.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2019 at 12:47 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The drum still works and the sculptor left the mallet on the drum hoping it could serve as a victory call for the people who are completing their rounds of chemotherapy.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2019 at 9:54 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
One of the most important lessons being taught is goal setting. The women running the workshop are business owners or professionals who set goals to get them where they are now.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2019 at 4:58 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Col. Joe Reid relinquished command and took group command in Meridian over the 186th Air Refueling Wing. He called it “going back to his home roots.”
Updated: Aug. 2, 2019 at 5:51 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The National Bikers Roundup is the largest camping motorcycle rally in the United States. It draws in about 30,000 people and spectators.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2019 at 7:12 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
For students at Pascagoula High School, that means some big changes and new improvements when they head back in the classroom this fall.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2019 at 9:50 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Kim Fields is probably best remembered for her role as Tootie on the “Facts of Life,” but she is currently a big supporter of the Mississippi Centers for Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2019 at 6:33 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
French Hermit Oyster company is celebrating the release of their oysters back into Mississippi waters.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2019 at 7:15 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
Residents at Bluff Creek Campground in Vancleave say the landlord owes $13,000 to the electric company and hasn’t paid the bill, leaving them with no power.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2019 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
As of Saturday, 50 years have passed since a man, Neil Armstrong to be exact, first stepped foot on the moon. Many people remember that iconic day.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2019 at 6:34 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
More than half a billion people watched those never-before-seen events playing on their television screens in the summer of 1969, a man was really walking on the moon.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2019 at 9:05 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The city council voted to approve sending an application for a grant and committed to match it by using a portion of the port money the city receives from the county.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2019 at 8:27 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
Youth at St. Clare Catholic Church saved up their money for nearly a year to donate to AMBUCS.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2019 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Roads in Bay St Louis and Waveland remain soaked and flooded in some areas.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2019 at 9:59 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
With the announcement that the spillway will be closed soon, some hope for a better future. But the affected business will not get a rain check for lost revenue.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2019 at 6:46 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
From people coming out to bet at casino sports books, to the packed watch parties in people’s houses, soccer frenzy was sweeping South Mississippi Sunday.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2019 at 7:38 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
In Pascagoula, one event that you can always count on running into during the Fourth of July weekend is the Carver High School reunion.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2019 at 8:06 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
As a dangerous situation was unfolding about a mile away from Neco’s Family Market in Pass Christian, the employees inside of the store were making sure the police officers working the scene were fed and hydrated after spending hours in the sun.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2019 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Jackson County is planning a full replacement of its current 911 dispatch system.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2019 at 8:02 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Two churches, alike in the sense that they worship the same God, but different in the racial makeup of the congregation, joined in fellowship Sunday.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2019 at 6:23 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The beaches in Hancock and Harrison counties remain closed due to the toxic blue-green algae bloom, but some people could be seen casting their lines out into the Mississippi Sound on Saturday morning.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2019 at 6:47 AM CDT
|By Lindsay Knowles and Ray Price
A task force appointed by the governor released an updated report Tuesday detailing its efforts to monitor conditions in the Mississippi Sound.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2019 at 7:25 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
Loco got 100-125 stitches after being stabbed in the abdomen last week while pursuing a suspect in the woods, said his handler.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2019 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
According to the American Radio Relay League, Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the U.S. and Canada. The point of the radio field day is to make contact with as many other radio operators in the span of 24 hours.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2019 at 6:12 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Before the National Guard 859th Engineer Company ships out for a year-long deployment to Kuwait, the City of Pascagoula sent them off in style.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2019 at 9:41 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
As a young fireman, Skellie thought about becoming a lieutenant and then battalion chief. But some changes happened where he ended up being on the administrative side of the department as an inspector.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2019 at 6:22 AM CDT
|By Ray Price
An effort is underway to keep the oldest golf course in Mississippi running.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2019 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Apprentice linemen with Mississippi Power need to be able to do the best job out there.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2019 at 5:06 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
A piece of space-age history got some TLC this weekend. Volunteers spent time painting the cradle underneath the Saturn V rocket at the Infinity Science Center Saturday.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2019 at 5:29 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
At most aquariums, the only interaction people have with stingrays is in a touch pool, but a group of teenagers got up close and personal with them in the big pool at Ocean Adventures Marine Park Friday.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2019 at 3:28 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
People in East Biloxi say that for a long time they have felt forgotten about. There’s is no grocery store in the area, which has some people labeling that part of the city a "food desert.”
Updated: Jun. 11, 2019 at 10:15 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
Harris describes the show as “MTV for local unsigned artists,” and they're always looking to discover the next undiscovered group.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2019 at 4:46 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
If you or your children haven't taken swimming lessons, now is a good time to start. The American Academy of Pediatrics claims drowning as the single leading cause of injury-related death in children ages 1 to 4.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2019 at 5:09 PM CDT
|By Ray Price
The Department of Public Safety’s Jumpstart program allowed most of the people who came to take driving tests for licenses and permits to be fast-tracked.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2019 at 7:07 PM CDT
|By Ray Price and Renee Johnson
Governor Phil Bryant is asking for a federal fisheries disaster declaration for Mississippi due to the Bonnet Carré Spillway opening. Such a declaration could help all those negatively impacted by the freshwater intrusion, including fishermen and related businesses, obtain financial assistance.
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