All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 30 2019 // Fire officials in a Mississippi city say three recent fires in the same neighborhood were intentionally set. Vicksburg Fire Chief Craig Danczyk tells WLBT a vacant apartment building went up in flames on Saturday. The...
May 29 2019 // I was on site in 2011 when the Army freed the Mississippi from a man-made barrier and unleashed it into a large swath of rural Louisiana — a harrowing trade off that flooded homes and farms to avoid catastrophe in New...
May 28 2019 // A floodgate in the Mississippi Delta has been reopened as large stretches of rural land remain underwater.The Mississippi Levee Board says the Steele Bayou floodgate was opened Thursday. The structure north of Vicksburg...
May 23 2019 // A major barrier that keeps the Mississippi River in its current path may be opened for just the third time in its history, potentially flooding a large part of rural Louisiana.Concern is growing that heavy rains will cause...
May 23 2019 // Floodwaters overwhelmed a miles-long sandbag barrier over the weekend, drenching another community in the southern end of the Mississippi Delta.Volunteers, prisoners and others had stacked 100,000 sandbags and more than...
May 23 2019 // The Mississippi Fire Marshal’s office is giving away smoke alarms to try to reduce fire deaths.Mike Chaney is the state insurance commissioner and fire marshal. He says having a smoke alarm can cut the risk of fire...
May 21 2019 // MS Amlin announced the purchase of a strategic stake in Envelop Risk, a global specialist reinsurance managing general agent (MGA), which combines insurance expertise with artificial intelligence-driven cyber risk...
May 20 2019 // A Mississippi jury has awarded a total of more than $3 million to five African American strippers after a federal judge found the women worked under worse conditions than their white colleagues.U.S. District Judge Henry T....
May 16 2019 // Mississippi homeowners could see premiums rise up to 25 percent thanks to Hurricane Katrina-related subrogation litigation being brought by the Mississippi attorney general, according to a recent report by Milliman.The...
May 14 2019 // Some of April’s natural catastrophes included an elevated number of tornadoes in the United States, the strongest cyclone to hit Mozambique on record and costly seasonal flooding Eastern Canada that inundated nearly...
May 13 2019 // Floodwaters in southern Mississippi may have contributed to the derailment of a freight train near Lumberton.Norfolk Southern spokeswoman Rachel McDonnell Bradshaw says the derailment happened about 7:15 a.m. Saturday as...
May 9 2019 // President Donald Trump has expanded limited disaster aid to 13 more Mississippi counties following storms and flooding in February and March.Governments and certain nonprofit groups are eligible to be repaid for...
May 6 2019 // The latest round of Midwestern flooding claimed at least four lives, closed hundreds of roads and forced residents of river towns to shore up threatened levees with sandbags as waters rose to and near record levels in some...
May 2 2019 // Communities in several states along the Mississippi River are watching the skies this week as rainfall will likely determine whether the river reaches record crests and how much it will raise floodwaters.The National...
May 2 2019 // MS Amlin announced an upgrade of of a digital trading solution to upgrade its “Countrywise insurance” service, which provides agricultural motor insurance for brokers and their clients in Great Britain and...
May 2 2019 // The National Weather Service is now confirming 44 tornadoes in Mississippi from the April 18 outbreak, tying the record for a single event.Forecasters say they also confirmed that many tornadoes in Mississippi during...
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Apr 29 2019 // MS Amlin, the global re/insurer, announced the appointment of Iain Pearce to the role of chief financial officer. Pearce will join the business on June 3, 2019, forming part of the executive team and reporting to Simon...
Apr 29 2019 // With three more tornadoes confirmed Friday from an April 18 outbreak, the National Weather Service now says 43 tornadoes hit Mississippi that day, and 75 for the year.The one-day amount alone equals Mississippi’s...
Apr 23 2019 // Strong storms roared across the Southeast last week, killing at least two in Mississippi and a woman in Alabama while leaving more than 100,000 people without power across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. A girl...