All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2013 // Residents of coastal Mississippi are holding events in remembrance of Hurricane Katrina, the massive storm that struck on Aug. 29, 2005.The observances began Thursday on the Biloxi Town Green on U.S. Highway 90 followed by...
Aug 30 2013 // More than two dozen body shops are asking a Mississippi court to block an insurance company’s program that would change the way they find auto parts.The Mississippi Collision Repair Association and the body shops...
Aug 26 2013 // The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it will give students free insurance against identity theft after an accidental privacy breach.Last week, UMMC mistakenly sent about 190 people an email that had a...
Aug 23 2013 // Calling pending flood insurance increases “drastic and draconian,” U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo of Gulfport met Wednesday with state and local leaders to discuss ways to stem the tide of rising insurance rates that...
Aug 20 2013 // With the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina near, homeowners along the Mississippi Coast also have to brace for possible rate increases of 20 percent for flood insurance and 3.2 percent for wind pool insurance.The...
Aug 15 2013 // Mississippi is on pace once again to have the lowest number of fire deaths on record.State Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Ricky Davis told The Clarion-Ledger 62 people died in fires last year, with 37 of those deaths occurring...
Aug 12 2013 // A federal judge Friday dismissed Kmart’s claims against the city of Corinth over flood damage to one of the chain’s stores in 2010.U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson ruled that the city is entitled to...
Aug 9 2013 // Insurance rates for the state wind pool are set to increase Dec. 1 on renewals and new policies.The Sun Herald reported that a Mississippi Insurance Department filing shows owners of homes and mobile homes will see hikes...
Aug 7 2013 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner and fire marshal Mike Chaney kicked off a new statewide fire safety program called “Operation: SAM (Smoke Alarms Mississippi).”Last week, the program distributed free...
Aug 6 2013 // Jackson County in Mississippi is getting a multimillion-dollar boost from the federal government to help erase the effects of Hurricane Isaac last year.The Sun Herald reports that the county will receive $10 million from...
Aug 5 2013 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the Diamondhead Fire Protection District can charge a fee for its services to local property owners.Hancock County Circuit Judge Roger Clark ruled last year that the...
Jul 30 2013 // A former student accused of shooting his roommate in an off-campus apartment has sued the University of Southern Mississippi, alleging that it violated his rights by expelling him and tampering with his files. According to...
Jul 30 2013 // Property insurance premiums have skyrocketed for Pine Belt school districts. Some have had problems just finding a company to insure them.Lamar County School District Superintendent Ben Burnett told the Hattiesburg...
Jul 22 2013 // A federal judge has upheld Mississippi’s cap of $500,000 on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases.The ruling came in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a woman and her unborn baby who died...
Jul 18 2013 // Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi has told the state’s second-largest hospital owner that it will end its contract with the company’s 10 Mississippi hospitals at the end of August.The insurer sent the...
Jul 16 2013 // More than two dozen Mississippi slaughterhouses and poultry meat processing plants have violated sanitation or food safety guidelines over the past decade — and most did both, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported.The...
Jul 11 2013 // The family of a Mississippi football player who died following a workout in 2010 has reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the university and the NCAA.Bennie Abram III, a 20-year-old non-scholarship...
Jul 8 2013 // A pet owner has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a central Mississippi city’s ban on pit bull dogs.The city of Richland, a Jackson suburb of about 7,000 residents, passed an ordinance in April 2006 that bans...
Jul 8 2013 // A contractor projects that a system to instantly verify whether Mississippians have auto insurance would lead to fines of more than $150 million a year being collected over the program’s first three yearsThe computer...
Jun 25 2013 // People in 36 of Mississippi’s 82 counties may not be able to buy health insurance through the new federal online marketplace when it starts enrolling customers in October.Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said two...