All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2017 // Alabama and Mississippi are completely free from drought for the first time in more than a year.A federal assessment released at the end of June showed rains eliminated a dry spell that began in April 2016, the last time...
Jul 18 2017 // South Carolina is one of the Southeast’s most dangerous states for motorcyclists, but bikers put the blame on a range of problems from bad roads, inattentive motorists and inexperienced riders.The Post and Courier...
Jul 12 2017 // Alabama and Mississippi are completely free from drought for the first time in more than a year.A federal assessment released at the end of June showed rains eliminated a dry spell that began in April 2016, the last time...
Jul 10 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. Starting Saturday, Mississippi is joining...
Jul 7 2017 // Authorities say a prescription drug ring at an outpatient psychiatric center has led to the arrest of three health care workers.News outlets report 34-year-old Andrea Reene Opoku, 29-year-old Nikita Marie Piernas and...
Jun 29 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 Tuesday that the city...
Jun 28 2017 // MS Amlin, the specialist global re/insurer, plans to re-domicile its European business, Amlin Insurance Societas Europaea (AISE), to Belgium in response to Brexit.MS Amlin said it will keep its global headquarters in...
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
Jun 26 2017 // Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Cindy covered timberland and fields across the rural Deep South on Saturday, but the sun peeked out enough to offer hope that the worst was over.Swollen by heavy rains and flowing quickly,...
Jun 21 2017 // The National Hurricane Center reports that a tropical storm warning is in effect from San Luis Pass Texas to the mouth of the Mississippi River as Tropical Storm Cindy moves closer to the central Gulf Coast.The storm...
Jun 21 2017 // Drug overdose deaths have reached a record high in Mississippi. The Clarion-Ledger reported that the at least 211 deaths in 2016 were the most in Mississippi’s history. Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics director John...
Jun 19 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...
Jun 16 2017 // Authorities believe a father and son who died while working on a sewer lift station in Mississippi were overcome by odorless methane gas. News outlets report that 45-year-old Terry West and his 20-year-old son Gage West...
May 22 2017 // Petplan Australasia announced that MS Amlin Syndicate 2001 of Lloyd’s will become the new underwriter of its pet insurance plans in Australia – a move that is designed to enhance policyholder benefits with broader...
May 18 2017 // FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI), a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance, has promoted Tiffany Hawkins to regional vice president, and Trey Stone to assistant vice president in the Gulf Coast Regional office...
May 16 2017 // Residents of Holmes and Montgomery counties in Mississippi could get federal help following April 30 tornadoes, if Gov. Phil Bryant gets his way.Bryant on Thursday officially asked that President Donald Trump declare a...
May 15 2017 // A Mississippi-based business is recalling about 130,000 pounds of meat and poultry frozen entree products due to bacterial contamination.Listeriosis, the infection caused by the listeria bacteria, can cause fever and...
May 10 2017 // Neon has completed the build-out of its claims team with the recent appointments of Gavin Coley as technical head of claims and James Sterling as claims manager for professional indemnity & financial...
May 10 2017 // Authorities in north Mississippi say 67 guns were stolen from a tractor-trailer that was waiting to deliver the firearms to a sporting goods store. The Commercial Appeal reports that 61 handguns six other firearms were...
May 5 2017 // River levels fell on May 4 after record and near-record flooding in parts of the Midwest, but the crisis is far from over. Officials have not said when hundreds of residents displaced from flooded properties in suburban...