All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2010 // Most experts believe it’s just a matter of time before another big earthquake strikes along the New Madrid fault line, and Gov. Jay Nixon says Missouri and neighboring states need to be ready.Nixon on Feb. 19...
Feb 21 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums.Consumers who...
Feb 19 2010 // A general contractor’s hiring of a subcontractor does not necessarily preclude coverage under its commercial general liability (CGL) policy for shoddy work performed by the subcontractor, Mississippi’s highest...
Feb 12 2010 // Cigarette lighters that look like toys would be banned, under a proposal that’s advancing in the Mississippi Legislature.The House passed a bill, 94-25, this week to prohibit the sale of novelty lighters. Mississippi...
Feb 10 2010 // Mississippi officials have charged a Vicksburg man with arson involving 10 buildings and two vehicles.A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Vicksburg Fire Department and the...
Feb 8 2010 // Crime prevention takes more than the work of law enforcement officers. Mississippi citizens are also doing their part through a program called Crime Stoppers.The Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers has been in existence since...
Feb 5 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums.Consumers who...
Jan 29 2010 // Outside Mississippi’s 3rd Judicial District, Henry Lackey is best known as the judge whose integrity and intrepidness led to the downfall of famed trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs and several colleagues.In his hometown of...
Jan 28 2010 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that Mary Reed Evans is entitled to present evidence in an effort to disprove prosecutors’ contention that her blood alcohol level was over the legal limit at the time she was...
Jan 22 2010 // Nationwide Insurance has proposed a 11.7 percent increase in homeowner insurance premiums statewide.The rate request will take effect April 15 unless Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney denies it or has questions....
Jan 14 2010 // A program to buy oft-flooded properties in Jackson County, Mississippi may be moving forward after years of delays.After Hurricanes Georges in 1998 and Katrina in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and...
Jan 12 2010 // On a bitterly cold morning in Anchorage, Alaska, the Hurricane Hunters lift off to scout a weather track that may bring snow to the Northeast or flooding rains in California in the next five days.The winter mission of the...
Jan 11 2010 // The nine fire deaths in Starkville on Dec. 28, including six children ages 6 and under, at the Academy Crossing apartment complex is the worst fatal fire to strike Mississippi in modern history and could cause the state to...
Jan 10 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he’s taking steps to discourage companies from seeking higher rates for the Gulf Coast or other specific areas of Mississippi.Chaney said he will require that...
Jan 10 2010 // Before Mississippi lawmakers passed tort reform that limited damages in civil litigation, Ronnie Lee Lymas’ lawsuit against the store where he was shot wouldn’t have gotten much attention.That’s anything...
Jan 8 2010 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator, as he earlier indicated he would do, has denied a request from Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. for a statewide home insurance price hike of about 60 percent.The...
Dec 28 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he’s taking steps aimed at discouraging companies from seeking higher rates for the Gulf Coast or other specific areas of Mississippi.Chaney said he will require...
Dec 28 2009 // Property owners insured in the Mississippi wind pool may soon find some relief from rising premium costs with the transfer of $19 million from the Mississippi Insurance Department to the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting...
Dec 21 2009 // Before Mississippi lawmakers passed tort reform that limited damages in civil litigation, Ronnie Lee Lymas’ lawsuit against the store where he was shot wouldn’t have gotten much attention.That’s anything...
Dec 11 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he was not happy about granting a 19.5 percent homeowners rate increase to State Farm, but he had little choice.“Would you want me to have 26,000 policies canceled...