All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2015 // Second-term incumbent Mike Chaney of Vicksburg has won the Republican nomination for insurance commissioner.He held off a challenge Tuesday from John Mosley, a body shop owner from Clinton. Mosley campaigned, in part, by...
Aug 6 2015 // DeSoto County supervisors want the Corps of Engineers to coordinate a unified flood-prevention effort.Letters from the board seek to get the Vicksburg and Memphis districts in the same boat with DeSoto and its North...
Aug 3 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled that whistleblowers who sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. can seek more evidence of fraud against the U.S. government after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.In its decision, the New...
Jul 31 2015 // Second-term Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney is being challenged in the Republican primary by John Mosley, a body shop owner who says insurance companies have gotten away with paying for less-than-perfect...
Jul 16 2015 // Whistleblowers who sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. can seek more evidence of fraud against the U.S. government after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, a federal appeals court ruled July 13.In its decision, the New...
Jul 10 2015 // The city of Biloxi, Miss., is accepting $4.9 million from BP as part of a group settlement of local government claims for economic losses caused by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Last week, BP and five coastal...
Jul 9 2015 // Mississippi’s attorney general says the nation’s largest tobacco company will pay the state $15 million to settle claims that it was underreporting the number of cigarettes it was shipping to the state.Attorney...
Jul 2 2015 // BP Plc has agreed to a preliminary deal in which it will pay a record $18.7 billion to settle claims by five Gulf states and the U.S. government for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst oil spill in the...
Jun 25 2015 // Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes wants slabs and pilings left behind when Hurricane Katrina tore the businesses and homes removed.Hewes said the debris is “unsightly” and a “blight.” The Sun Herald...
Jun 23 2015 // Rain-swollen rivers either crested or started to fall across much of Missouri on June 22, but a National Weather Service flood expert warned that more rain is on the way over the next several days and the water could rise...
Jun 22 2015 // Mississippi’s transportation commissioners are urging U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran to help squash a proposal that would force the state to allow larger double-trailer trucks on its roads.“I don’t like Congress...
Jun 16 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill came ashore on the Texas mainland this morning near Seadrift, packing heavy rains that will drop as much as 10 inches along the coast.Bill’s winds were 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour, up from...
Jun 5 2015 // The Jackson, Miss., City Council is looking at reducing the number of vehicles required to operate a taxicab company in the city from eight to four or fewer.The council took no action on the proposal this week, opting to...
Jun 3 2015 // Google Inc. has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes may help show they conspired with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood as he investigated the Internet search...
May 31 2015 // Indiana is training 300 prisoners to kill infected chickens and banning bird shows at county fairs. Mississippi is considering road barricades and planning biosecurity measures. Iowa is trying to figure out how to deal...
May 27 2015 // Property insurers in Mississippi have until October 1, 2015 to respond to the Mississippi Insurance Department’s (MID) first call for homeowners’ insurance policy data that will be used to satisfy the...
May 27 2015 // A little more than four years after a powerful tornado destroyed most of Smithville, Miss., Monroe County residents are cleaning up from another twister.Monroe County Emergency Management Agency Director Robert...
May 18 2015 // Property insurers in Mississippi have until October 1, 2015 to respond to the Mississippi Insurance Department’s (MID) first call for homeowners’ insurance policy data that will be used to satisfy the...
May 12 2015 // A federal judge who ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take action to regulate farm runoff and other pollution blamed for the Gulf of Mexico’s annual oxygen-depleted “dead zone” must take a...
May 4 2015 // State emergency officials said no injuries or major damage were reported Saturday night as two small earthquakes briefly shook central Mississippi – a part of the state where quakes are unusual.The U.S. Geological Survey...