All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2011 // Federal workplace safety officials said this week that they are again citing a Mississippi electrical and lighting maker for for unsafe practices.The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration accused Laurel-based...
Dec 14 2011 // A lack of proper insurance proof may force Metcalfe, Mississippi to cut ties with its long-time trash collection provider.Griffin Waste Services has serviced the town since 1998, but Mayor Corey Holmes says during that...
Dec 2 2011 // A federal judge has put on hold portions of a Mississippi lawsuit against Obama administration’s health care law.U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Nov. 23, stayed consideration of parts of the...
Nov 28 2011 // Five property owners whose homes were inundated by the spring flood could have their homes bought out by the city of Vicksburg next year.The Board of Mayor and Aldermen has authorized Mayor Paul Winfield to apply for a...
Nov 21 2011 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney won re-election in voting on Nov. 8 in Mississippi.Chaney, a Republican from Vicksburg, defeated Democrat Louis Fondren of Gautier and Reform Party candidate Barbara Dale Washer of...
Nov 10 2011 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney won re-election in Tuesday’s voting in Mississippi.Chaney, a Republican from Vicksburg, defeated Democrat Louis Fondren of Gautier and Reform Party candidate Barbara Dale Washer of...
Nov 8 2011 // The death last month of a bicycle rider in a traffic accident has led city leaders in Oxford, Mississippi, to take a stronger look at bicycle safety.City Planner Tim Akers told the Oxford Board of Aldermen that police will...
Nov 7 2011 // Two U.S. senators are pressing to remove a federal requirement that homeowners and businesses near levees and dams purchase flood insurance.Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) have launched an effort to...
Nov 7 2011 // Louis Fondren, a Democrat from Gautier, and Barbara Dale Washer, the Reform Party candidate from Hattiesburg, are seeking to dislodge incumbent Mike Chaney as Mississippi insurance commissioner.Chaney, a Republican from...
Oct 28 2011 // Louis Fondren, a Democrat from Gautier, and Barbara Dale Washer, the Reform Party candidate from Hattiesburg, seek to dislodge incumbent Mike Chaney as Mississippi insurance commissioner.Chaney, 67, a Republican from...
Oct 18 2011 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked attorneys for more information as it considers whether the state’s limitation on damages in civil cases is constitutional.In an order last month, the court asked attorneys for...
Oct 14 2011 // European insurers AXA SA, Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Japan’s Tokio Marine and MS&AD Insurance Group are among suitors to submit first round bids for HSBC’s non-life insurance business, sources with...
Oct 12 2011 // A decision is pending from the Mississippi Supreme Court in another wind vs. water case, this one involving a Pascagoula home subjected to 6.3 feet of storm surge.The National Flood Insurance Program paid Jackson County...
Oct 7 2011 // Eighteen north Vicksburg homeowners who suffered damage from the Mississippi River flooding this spring have signed up for the city’s buyout program.The Vicksburg Post reported the voluntary buyout will be conducted...
Oct 7 2011 // A lawsuit and the state’s dram shop law have led to a $15 million judgment in Mississippi against Slippery Nick’s Saloon and Grill. However those who brought the suit do not expect to collect since the bar had...
Oct 3 2011 // U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are hopeful that Congress will approve legislation to direct a significant portion of federal fines paid by BP for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to...
Sep 21 2011 // U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss) say they are hopeful that a key Senate committee will this week approve legislation to direct a significant portion of federal fines paid by BP for the...
Sep 19 2011 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates it will cost more than $2 billion to repair the damage to the nation’s levees, dams and riverbanks caused by this year’s excessive flooding, a sum that dwarfs $150...
Sep 14 2011 // A Hinds County judge says he will rule soon on a motion by the University of Mississippi to move a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a former Ole Miss football player to Lafayette County.Arguments were heard...
Sep 13 2011 // The Columbus, Mississippi Police Department is launching the Columbus Business Alert initiative, an effort to inform local businesses of crime information as it is happening.Police department spokeswoman Terrie Songer said...