An Ocean Springs High School physics teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with a student said he didn’t know what he was doing was a “a felony-type crime.” James Donald Hawkins II, 38, made the ...

Carmel Middle School eighth-grader Angel Hernandez last week was experimenting on how mass, distance and gravity are related. He had spread out a large piece of paper that represented the universe and ...

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James Hawkins, a former Ocean Springs physics teacher, appears in Jackson County Circuit Court in Pascagoula on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Hawkins was charged with one count of sexual battery after ...