All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court will not revive a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a black man shot to death by a white police officer in Mississippi.Antwun “Ronnie” Shumpert was killed in June 2016 in...
Feb 14 2019 // The state of Mississippi on Monday sued the federal government, claiming a dam complex in Louisiana that keeps the Mississippi River from changing course is harming state land.The suit seeks at least $25 million in damages...
Feb 14 2019 // MS Amlin, the specialist global re/insurer, has launched a comprehensive all-risks policy designed for the technology sector in the UK, which is called Technology Combined.The product provides companies with cover against...
Feb 14 2019 // Gaps in safety management led to a 2016 explosion that idled an Enterprise Products natural gas processing plant in Pascagoula, Mississippi, for six months, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a report on Wednesday.The...
Feb 12 2019 // Mississippi senators are advancing a bill that would limit people’s ability to sue property owners for injuries or other problems.Senate Bill 2901 passed Thursday by a 32-17 vote. It was held for the possibility of...
Feb 8 2019 // Hub International Limited has acquired a book of business from Fortenberry McNamara, LLC of Jackson, Miss. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Fortenberry McNamara, an affiliate of Executive Planning Group, P.A.,...
Feb 4 2019 // Hours of Service, Other Safety Exemptions for Livestock Haulers Raise ConcernsMidwest Center for Investigative Reporting It was sometime around 4 a.m. on a cool, spring morning when James McGilvray lost control of his...
Jan 14 2019 // An explosion at a Mississippi ammunition plant caused minor injuries to seven workers.Winchester Ammunition says the explosion happened in a production area at its Oxford plant last Tuesday. The company says it’s...
Jan 10 2019 // For the second time in three years, the lower Mississippi River is flooding in January.High water is moving downriver from the junction with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio crested over the weekend. The...
Jan 8 2019 // Mississippi saw a big jump in fire deaths in 2018.The state Fire Marshal’s Office says 79 people died in blazes last year, up from 56 statewide in 2017. State Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Ricky Davis says he’s...
Jan 7 2019 // Parts of Mississippi continue to deal with river flooding as rains continue to fall.The National Weather Service had a flood warning through Sunday night for Tallahala Creek at Laurel in Jones County. A warning was also in...
Jan 4 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Southaven, Miss.-based Pointer Insurance Agency, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Pointer Insurance Agency offers a broad range of property/casualty coverages to...
Jan 4 2019 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol says at least five people died on the state’s roads during the New Year’s holiday.Capt. Johnny Poulos said in a news release Tuesday that 27 other people were hurt in wrecks from...
Dec 21 2018 // Japanese insurance group MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings (MS&AD) has agreed to increase its minority stake in ReAssure, Swiss Re’s UK closed life book consolidator, by making an additional cash investment of...
Dec 19 2018 // Mississippi is suing three opioid distributors, saying it failed to prevent the diversion of those drugs into the state and contributed to the opioid crisis.The complaint was filed in Hinds County Circuit Court against...
Nov 29 2018 // Five people have died in wrecks on Mississippi highways during the Thanksgiving holiday period. Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos says that on Saturday, 61-year-old George Henyard Jr. of Morgan City,...
Nov 16 2018 // A tour bus overturned on an icy highway ramp south of Memphis on Wednesday, leaving two people dead and several others injured as a pre-winter storm blasted parts of the South with an early shot of sleet, light snow and...
Nov 14 2018 // The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes hit northeast Mississippi last week.A preliminary survey Nov. 6 showed a twister with top winds of 115 mph (185 kph) struck in Pontotoc County. The tornado, rated...
Nov 5 2018 // Victims of a flash flood that damaged more than 150 structures in central Mississippi are unlikely to qualify for federal disaster aid.WLBT-TV reports the Mississippi Emergency Management completed its assessment Oct. 1...
Nov 5 2018 // A southwest Mississippi county is suing an electrical utility and its own insurer, seeking more than $500,000 for damage to voting machines caused by a 2016 power outage.The Enterprise-Journal reports Pike County in Sept....