We had to have something different. Our own niche to compete along the gulf coast and in Jackson County.” – Gautier Mayor Casey VaughanThe typically quiet coastal city of Gautier has recently been ...

At 17, Keontae Colbert had big dreams. The Gautier High School senior planned to attend college and later work as a machinist at Ingalls Shipbuilding. A gunshot wound shattered those dreams.

His mother, Martina Pratt, said her son thought he was with friends. She said she tried to stop him before he left the home after school Monday, because she didn’t want him to take a gun he had bought ...