All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 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 11 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 Friday that it had issued...
Apr 19 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms six tornadoes hit Mississippi on Saturday.Tornadoes were reported in Lafayette, Lamar, Lauderdale, Rankin and Winston counties. Surveyors say damage in Lowndes County was caused by a...
Apr 17 2018 // Mississippi may be thought of as conservative small-government state, but the state’s consumers pay higher taxes on their insurance products than in all but two other states. Unfortunately, under a bill just signed...
Apr 13 2018 // Over a year after a tornado tore through an east Mississippi county without warning, the county is installing weather sirens that will extend warning coverage by over 300 miles. The Meridian Star reports that Lauderdale...
Apr 11 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms eight tornadoes hit Mississippi last week.Nobody was injured by the twisters, which damaged trees, power lines and some buildings on Friday. Tornadoes were reported in Rankin, Warren,...
Apr 10 2018 // A lawsuit against U.S. Senate appointee Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi has been permanently dismissed.The Daily Leader reports Mississippi Circuit Judge David Strong dismissed the case with prejudice April 3. That means...
Apr 6 2018 // Flood control engineering on the Mississippi River and its tributaries has likely made floods worse in Mississippi and Louisiana, researchers say.Using 500 years of data from tree rings and from sediment in oxbow lakes —...
Apr 6 2018 // Officials say one person has been injured after severe weather caused damage in a northern Alabama city.City of Decatur spokeswoman Emily Long said Wednesday the person was taken in for evaluation, but did not provide any...
Apr 4 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms three more tornadoes hit Mississippi last week.No one was injured in the twisters, which mainly caused tree damage on Wednesday. The longest was in Choctaw County, striking near French...
Mar 15 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms two tornadoes touched central Mississippi Sunday.No one was injured. A survey shows a twister with top winds of 90 mph (145 kph) struck Bentonia at 1:37 a.m. Sunday. The tornado, rated...
Mar 13 2018 // Some residents are threatening to sue a Mississippi Delta town following recent flooding, saying the town failed to maintain its drains. The Delta Democrat-Times reports that Ashley Harris, a lawyer, says she’s...
Mar 6 2018 // New Braunfels, Texas-based TCOR Management announced a merger with Legacy Insurors Group LLC, and MS&B Bonds and Insurance Services LLC, effective March 1. The operations of these two entities will continue under TCOR...
Mar 5 2018 // Volunteers are sandbagging homes in the Mississippi Delta, as heavy rains push a river toward a record flood.Pastor Anthony Dean tells WREG-TV that at least one home has already flooded in Quitman County, as the Coldwater...
Mar 5 2018 // A former Mississippi insurance agent will serve 10 years in prison for embezzling $117,863.74 from a customer and converting the money for his own use, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced in January.Charles...
Mar 5 2018 // A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Sunflower County Sheriff’s...
Feb 26 2018 // A former Mississippi insurance agent will serve 10 years in prison for embezzling $117,863.74 from a customer and converting the money for his own use, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced last month.Charles...
Feb 23 2018 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney wants the state Legislature to pass legislation to give him much more control over the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association and how it manages its finances.That...
Feb 12 2018 // A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Sunflower County Sheriff’s...
Feb 5 2018 // The Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) and the Mississippi Collision Repair Association have partnered to protect residents from buying cars damaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.Officials say thousands of...