Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi Town Sued by Environmental Group for Sewage Overflow
Jan 8 2016 // Sewage overflows during heavy rains have fouled a poor neighborhood in Centreville, Miss., for years because the city has failed to fix its sewage system, a lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit was filed against Centreville on...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Mississippi-Based Gathings Insurance
Jan 8 2016 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Gathings Insurance Services, LLC of Ridgeland, Miss. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Gathings specializes in providing a variety of employee benefits, and...
Mississippi Floodwaters Head South; Officials Weigh Options
Jan 6 2016 // As floodwaters move south along the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is weighing steps it could take to prevent widespread flooding from southern Missouri down to the Gulf Coast. In Louisiana, the Corps...
Mississippi Granted Federal Aid for December Storms
Jan 6 2016 // Five Mississippi counties hit hard by late December storms and tornadoes are eligible for federal disaster aid. The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the state, making funds...
Cleanup Begins in Illinois, Missouri after Massive Flooding
Jan 4 2016 // The Mississippi River and many of its tributaries on Jan. 3 continued their retreat from historic and deadly winter flooding, leaving amid the silt a massive cleanup and recovery effort likely to take weeks if not...
Deadly Floods Disrupting Agriculture, Commercial Operations in U.S. Midwest
Jan 3 2016 // Deadly flooding across the U.S. Midwest is disrupting everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close. The floods have killed at least 30 people and shut hundreds of roads...
Tennessee Issues Weekend Flood Warning for Mississippi River
Dec 31 2015 // Authorities issued a flood warning Dec. 29 for the Mississippi River in Memphis due to heavy rain in the central United States. Emergency preparedness officials in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, said Tuesday that...
Buildings Damaged by Storms in Louisiana; No Injuries Reported
Dec 30 2015 // A storm system damaged buildings and cut power across Louisiana on Sunday night and Monday morning, but no injuries were reported. Strong winds blew trees onto at least eight mobile homes in Blanchard, northwest of...
Floods of Five Rivers Head from Midwest to U.S. Industrial South
Dec 30 2015 // Brace yourself, U.S. South. The Mississippi River is coming, and so are the Arkansas, the Red, the Ohio and the Missouri. The water on the Mississippi River is already so high that Missouri has closed interstate highways....
Mississippi Highway Patrol Reports 250 Accidents Over Christmas Holiday
Dec 30 2015 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol says five people died on state and federal highways during the Christmas holiday period from Wednesday through Sunday. In Lee County, 19-year-old Boonville resident Chaniqua Pierce died Dec....
Christmastime Storm Ravages Southeast States
Dec 28 2015 // Lightning illuminates a house after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Ala., damaging several houses, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. A Christmastime wave of severe weather continued Friday. (AP...
CoreLogic Buys Mississippi-Based Appraisal Software Maker for $475 million
Dec 23 2015 // Real estate information provider CoreLogic is buying Oxford, Miss.-based FNC Inc. for $475 million. CoreLogic, based in Irvine, Calif., announced the purchase Dec. 17, saying it wants to integrate FNC’s real estate...
Report: Southeast States Unprepared for Future Risks from Climate Change
Dec 11 2015 // Source: States at Risk Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme...
Mississippi Capitol Moves Closer to Regulating Ridesharing Entities
Dec 8 2015 // Jackson has taken a step toward regulating ride-hailing services such as Uber after the Rules Committee of the Jackson City Council voted to send a suggested ordinance to the full council. The suggested regulations include...
Report: Southeast States Not Prepared for Future Risks from Climate Change
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Mississippi Gas Station Sued for Violating ‘Larry the Cable Guy’ Trademark
Nov 29 2015 // The company that owns trademark and merchandising rights for Larry the Cable Guy says the Giterdone convenience store in Diamondhead, Mississippi, is violating the trademark on the catchphrase Git-R-Done. The store’s...
Tornadoes, Heavy Rain Cause Damage in 10 Mississippi Counties
Nov 20 2015 // At least two tornadoes and heavy rainstorms in Mississippi destroyed a mobile home, partially tore a roof off a house, and left a truck driver injured after he drove into a downed tree, state officials said...
States Graded ‘A’ to ‘F’ for Extreme Weather Preparedness
Nov 20 2015 // Many states across the country are unprepared to face the risks posed extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to a new report card. Only a small...
Report: Jackson, Mississippi Tops List of Windiest Cities
Nov 16 2015 // Jackson, Miss., is the windiest city in America, according to catastrophe modeling firm CoreLogic’s rankings of the windiest cities in the country, released in October. The CoreLogic Windy City Ranking report, which...
People – Southeast
Nov 16 2015 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, a Republican, was re-elected to a third term in the office on Nov. 3, according to the Associated Press. A Mississippi native, Chaney is the state’s 11th Commissioner...
