All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 20 2018 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has announced he will run for re-election for a fourth term in 2019.The 74-year-old Chaney made his announcement Aug. 1 at the Nashoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., and...
Aug 16 2018 // Giant cranes loading and unloading gargantuan barges. Oil tankers, supply vessels and pipelines serving a vital energy industry. Flood control structures. Chemical plants. Cruise ships. Drinking water sources. All...
Aug 16 2018 // Mississippi’s Supreme Court says a state lawsuit against Google alleging violations of student privacy should stay in a northeast Mississippi court.The court voted 6-2 Aug. 9 to deny an appeal by the unit of...
Aug 15 2018 // A Mississippi woman is making a federal case out of a life-threatening bout with salmonella that she blames on Goldfish crackers. The Clarion Ledger reported Friday that 26-year-old Bailey Finch is accusing Pepperidge Farm...
Aug 10 2018 // A train crash into a tour bus that killed four in Mississippi last year stemmed from the railroad and the city failing to improve an unsafe rail crossing, federal safety regulators concluded Tuesday.The March 2017 crash...
Aug 10 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved almost $7.4 million for the State of Mississippi to fund the construction of eight stand-alone safe rooms designed to withstand winds up to 200 mph at schools in...
Aug 6 2018 // A Mississippi insurance producer has surrendered his licensed after being served a cease and desist order by the Mississippi Insurance Department.According to a statement from MID, James Michael Brand surrendered his...
Aug 3 2018 // A Mississippi poultry supplier will pay $3.75 million to Hispanic workers, ending an eight-year legal fight.The Clarion Ledger reports Koch Foods of Mississippi LLC agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by 11 workers at its...
Aug 2 2018 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has announced he will run for re-election for a fourth term in 2019.Multiple media outlets reported 74-year-old Chaney’s announcement Wednesday, made at the Nashoba...
Jul 27 2018 // A police officer in Mississippi has been awarded $20,000 in damages after a federal jury ruled his police department retaliated against him for complaining about mold in his office.The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal...
Jul 23 2018 // A Mississippi insurance producer has surrendered his licensed after being served a cease and desist order by the Mississippi Insurance Department.According to a statement from MID, James Michael Brand surrendered his...
Jul 16 2018 // Governments in DeSoto County, Mississippi will spend more than $3 million to study flooding.WHBQ-TV reports that half the money will come from the federal government, while half will come from DeSoto County and local...
Jul 16 2018 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol is paying $500,000 in a lawsuit over a fatal wreck that happened when a state trooper was driving fast on a dark highway without his blue lights flashing.The crash happened about 1:30 a.m. on...
Jul 12 2018 // A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former insurance broker to six months in prison for helping former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps evade taxes.In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge...
Jul 2 2018 // A cease and desist order has been issued to a Mississippi insurance agent accused of failing to forward premiums to the respective insurance companies. The Mississippi Insurance Department said that it issued the order...
Jul 2 2018 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed over a 2009 helicopter accident that left its pilot partially paralyzed.Justices ruled 6-2 that a proper complaint was not filed by Rob Hammons of...
Jun 29 2018 // Investigators in one north Mississippi County are looking for thieves who have been riding all-terrain vehicles to break into cars at night.WHBQ-TV reports that at least two dozen vehicles in a rural area of southern...
Jun 28 2018 // Governments in DeSoto County, Mississippi will spend more than $3 million to study flooding.WHBQ-TV reports that half the money will come from the federal government, while half will come from DeSoto County and local...
Jun 22 2018 // Gov. Phil Bryant is naming another retired military leader to run Mississippi’s Emergency Management Agency.Bryant said on Monday said he was appointing Gregory Michel as the agency’s director. Michel was the...
Jun 19 2018 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol is paying $500,000 in a lawsuit over a fatal wreck that happened when a state trooper was driving fast on a dark highway without his blue lights flashing.The crash happened about 1:30 a.m. on...