All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2023 // OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi jury has rejected a civil lawsuit seeking money damages from two police officers who fatally shot a man while serving a warrant at the wrong house.A federal court jury in Oxford on...
Sep 18 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are preparing to harvest crops and send tons of corn...
Sep 15 2023 // (Bloomberg) — The tiny town of Drew, Mississippi, has been left behind by the modern economy. Most businesses along its lone main street are shuttered, so it’s hard to buy a cup of coffee or groceries. Stray...
Sep 15 2023 // Orion180, one of the latest entrants into the Florida market, has also begun writing homeowners policies in noncoastal areas of Mississippi and Alabama. The policies will be written through admitted insurer Orion180 Select...
Sep 8 2023 // A workers’ compensation fund for Mississippi state agencies can take subrogation action against the driver of an all-terrain vehicle that badly injured the then-chief of staff to the state’s lieutenant...
Aug 23 2023 // A Black FedEx delivery driver who says two white men shot at and chased him in Mississippi in 2022 has now been fired from his job, he and his attorney said Monday.“I honestly feel disrespected,” the former...
Aug 22 2023 // MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) – The energy company responsible for leaking radioactive material from its nuclear plant in Monticello, Minnesota, in recent months has announced that it will build an underground metal barrier to...
Aug 22 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXA XL, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), and the cyber insurer Coalition.AXA XL Names Hopkinson as Canada Country Manager AXA XL announced...
Aug 21 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – Sweltering temperatures lingered Sunday in a large swath of the central U.S., causing misery from the Gulf of Mexico almost to the Great Lakes.Record high temperatures were recorded in Texas and other...
Aug 18 2023 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A California-based company will pay just under $5 million in fines for discharging wastewater into a publicly owned sewage treatment plant in Mississippi without obtaining a valid state permit,...
Aug 16 2023 // BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist assault. All six had recently admitted their guilt in a connected...
Aug 14 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Nearly $3 billion in settlement money from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast and killed hundreds of thousands of marine animals is now funding a massive ecosystem...
Aug 1 2023 // Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is suing a local news organization, claiming it defamed him in public comments on the misspending of $77 million of federal welfare funds intended to help some of the poorest people in...
Jul 31 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lockton and MS Amlin.A summary of these new hires follows here. Lockton Taps Swiss Re’s Wright to Lead UK Commercial Wholesale, Succeeding...
Jul 31 2023 // Rolling Fork, Mississippi (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were killed by their homes.Angela Eason had visited Brenda Odoms’ tidy mobile home before. It was a place where Odoms, who had many...
Jul 26 2023 // Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has requested financial assistance from the federal government for 16 counties hit by tornadoes and damaging storms that hammered the state over a five-day period in June, he announced...
Jul 24 2023 // Groundwater containing low levels of radioactive material may have reached the edge of the Mississippi River, the energy company responsible for the leak from its nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minnesota, announced...
Jul 19 2023 // Tokio Marine HCC today announced it has agree to acquire Gulf Guaranty Employee Benefit Services, Inc., a Jackson, Mississippi-based third-party administrator and managing general underwriter that designs, underwrites and...
Jul 19 2023 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman who says she was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed.Latasha Smith, 49, was in bed on Dec. 11 when an officer from the state-run Capitol...
Jul 17 2023 // Severe weather created when a stationary front trapped warm, humid air over Texas and the Southeast caused an estimated $5.5 billion in insured losses, Karen Clark & Co. said in a briefing in late June.KCC said there...