All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2017 // An early Monday morning fire in Mississippi has destroyed a 15,000-square-foot (1,394-sq. meter) auction company.Corinth Fire Department Training Officer Jerry Whirley told news outlets that five units responded to the...
Oct 25 2017 // An accident on a ride at the South Mississippi State Fair has injured two children.Fair representative Pam Holyfield told WDAM-TV that 7-year-old Jayden Busby was on a ride called “Up, Up and Away” on Friday...
Oct 18 2017 // A Mississippi woman accused of attempting to defraud an insurance company out of thousands of dollars has been arrested. News outlets report 30-year-old Kyomi M. Fulton, of Fayette, was arrested Oct. 11 and charged with...
Oct 13 2017 // A Mississippi woman has been arrested in a workers’ compensation fraud case. Attorney General Jim Hood said Wednesday, in a news release, that 35-year-old Francine Owens is accused of giving misleading statements to...
Oct 9 2017 // A Mississippi insurance agent was arrested last month for allegedly converting customers’ premium payments for his own use. Attorney General Jim Hood said Sept. 12 that a Lamar County Grand Jury indicted 30-year-old...
Oct 7 2017 // Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages.Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth...
Oct 6 2017 // Japan’s MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc said on Friday it had agreed with Swiss Re AG to invest 800 million pounds ($1.05 billion) to take a stake of up to 15 percent in UK-based ReAssure Jersey One...
Oct 3 2017 // A southwest Mississippi city is trying to get paid for $370,000 it’s spent cleaning up a building that collapsed July 23.McComb city attorney Wayne Dowdy tells the Board of Selectmen that the building’s owner...
Sep 13 2017 // A multi-car pileup on Interstate 55 in southern Mississippi has left two people dead. Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Brandon Fortenberry tells local media that seven vehicles, including an 18-wheel truck were...
Aug 23 2017 // County officials in Mississippi say a toxic cloud of chlorine was released when a stolen car crashed into a utility station and killed two passengers. WLOX-TV reports Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson says the BMW...
Aug 21 2017 // Mississippi’s top insurance regulator and its only Democratic congressman are both ready to cede some of the federal flood insurance market to private insurers.Both Republican Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney and...
Aug 17 2017 // A Mississippi city has sued the head of a school for the arts, saying he knew before the roof collapsed that it was in danger of falling in.The City of McComb alleges that Terrance Alexander, director of Jubilee Performing...
Aug 14 2017 // A truck crash has killed dozens of calves on a south Mississippi highway, with cowboys working for hours to round up roaming survivors.Trooper Master Sgt. Brent Barfield says an 18-wheel cattle truck overturned on U.S. 84...
Aug 8 2017 // Mississippi’s top insurance regulator and its only Democratic congressman are both ready to cede some of the federal flood insurance market to private insurers.Both Republican Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney and...
Aug 1 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. (BHSI), announced it has established a new office in Dublin and appointed Cormac McNamara as Property & Casualty manager, BHSI Ireland.“Cormac will build our local team...
Jul 27 2017 // Authorities say four people in Mississippi have been charged in connection with several auto burglaries that took place over a five-hour period. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell said in a press release that there were 11...
Jul 25 2017 // A 59-year-old Mississippi woman has been indicted on criminal charges, with prosecutors saying she lied when she reported falling at a Walmart store. State Attorney General Jim Hood said Friday that Dianne Bullock of...
Jul 24 2017 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of catastrophic coastal insurance, announced that it expanded its Commercial Lines business to two new states: Alabama and Mississippi.The two new states join New...
Jul 24 2017 // A new law in Mississippi requires everyone in a car, truck or SUV to buckle up. And, it will have the practical effect of banning people from riding in the beds of pickup trucks. Mississippi joins the majority of states...
Jul 24 2017 // Mississippi’s Court of Appeals says the city of Jackson can’t deny workers’ compensation benefits to a police officer injured in a wreck while he was speeding.The court ruled 10-0 that the city must pay...