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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...
Engineers Investigating Cause of Collapsed Parking Lot in Mississippi
Nov 11 2015 // Cars rest at the site of a cave-in in the parking lot of a Meridian, Miss., IHOP restaurant, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Engineers are trying to determine what caused a drainage structure to collapse beneath the parking lot of...
Mississippi Parking Lot Caves-In, Swallows 12 Cars
Nov 10 2015 // A cave-in of a restaurant parking lot in Mississippi swallowed 12 cars and now experts have begun work to determine the cause of the weekend collapse, authorities said. No one was reported injured when the pavement gave...
Surge in Auto Break-Ins Bumping up Crime Rate in Mississippi City
Nov 6 2015 // Hundreds of vehicle break-ins are a big part of the reason that major crimes are up in Hattiesburg. There were 376 vehicle break-ins during the first nine months of this year, compared to 114 a year ago, The Hattiesburg...
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Chaney Re-Elected for Third Term
Nov 5 2015 // Mike Chaney, photo courtesy of Mississippi Insurance Department Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, a Republican, was reelected to a third term in the office on Nov. 3, according to the Associated Press. A...
Federal Drought Aid Expanded in Louisiana, Mississippi
Nov 2 2015 // About 70 percent of Mississippi counties and Louisiana parishes – 57 of 82 counties and 45 of 64 parishes – are now eligible for drought disaster aid, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The department has added...
Mississippi Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $33K in Premiums
Nov 2 2015 // A former insurance agent in Jackson County, Mississippi’s St. Martin community has pleaded guilty after pocketing more than $33,000 in customers’ money. The Sun-Herald reports that 38-year-old Chad Michael...
Mississippi Governor Issues Indefinite Burn Ban for Entire State
Oct 22 2015 // The entire state of Mississippi has been put under a burn ban because of dry conditions. Gov. Phil Bryant issued the ban Tuesday at the request of the Mississippi Forestry Commission. It will last indefinitely. Much of the...
