Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Unsafe Mississippi Rail Crossing Caused Fatal 2017 Bus Crash
Sep 3 2018 // A train crash into a tour bus that killed four in Mississippi last year stemmed from the railroad and the city failing to improve an unsafe rail crossing, federal safety regulators concluded last month. The March 2017...
Mississippi Ship Builder Error Causes Fuel Spill Into Pascagoula River
Aug 30 2018 // Hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel spilled into a river in Mississippi after a mechanical error at a ship builder. WLOX-TV reported the fuel spilled into the mouth of the Pascagoula River from a ship at Ingalls...
Damage Reported in Mississippi City Hit by EF1 Tornado
Aug 20 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms a tornado hit the central Mississippi city of Madison. The agency, in a Twitter post Saturday, said a survey team confirmed Friday’s damage was the result of an EF1...
Chaney to Seek Fourth Term as Mississippi Insurance Chief
Aug 20 2018 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has announced he will run for re-election for a fourth term in 2019. The 74-year-old Chaney made his announcement Aug. 1 at the Nashoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., and...
FBI: Lower Mississippi River Ports, South Louisiana Vulnerable to Cyber Threats
Aug 16 2018 // Giant cranes loading and unloading gargantuan barges. Oil tankers, supply vessels and pipelines serving a vital energy industry. Flood control structures. Chemical plants. Cruise ships. Drinking water sources. All...
Mississippi Supreme Court Allows Privacy Suit Against Google to Move Forward
Aug 16 2018 // Mississippi’s Supreme Court says a state lawsuit against Google alleging violations of student privacy should stay in a northeast Mississippi court. The court voted 6-2 Aug. 9 to deny an appeal by the unit of...
Mississippi Woman Sues Pepperidge Farm Over Contaminated Goldfish Crackers
Aug 15 2018 // A Mississippi woman is making a federal case out of a life-threatening bout with salmonella that she blames on Goldfish crackers. The Clarion Ledger reported Friday that 26-year-old Bailey Finch is accusing Pepperidge Farm...
NTSB: Failure to Fix Unsafe Mississippi Rail Crossing Caused Fatal Bus Crash
Aug 10 2018 // A train crash into a tour bus that killed four in Mississippi last year stemmed from the railroad and the city failing to improve an unsafe rail crossing, federal safety regulators concluded Tuesday. The March 2017 crash...
FEMA Awards Nearly $7.4M to Mississippi for Storm Safe Rooms in Schools
Aug 10 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved almost $7.4 million for the State of Mississippi to fund the construction of eight stand-alone safe rooms designed to withstand winds up to 200 mph at schools in...
Mississippi Insurance Producer Surrenders License After Cease & Desist Order
Aug 6 2018 // A Mississippi insurance producer has surrendered his licensed after being served a cease and desist order by the Mississippi Insurance Department. According to a statement from MID, James Michael Brand surrendered his...
Mississippi Poultry Firm Settles Discrimination Suit for $3.75M
Aug 3 2018 // A Mississippi poultry supplier will pay $3.75 million to Hispanic workers, ending an eight-year legal fight. The Clarion Ledger reports Koch Foods of Mississippi LLC agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by 11 workers at its...
Chaney to Seek Fourth Term as Mississippi Insurance Commissioner
Aug 2 2018 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has announced he will run for re-election for a fourth term in 2019. Multiple media outlets reported 74-year-old Chaney’s announcement Wednesday, made at the Nashoba...
Mississippi Police Officer Awarded $20K by Jury in Mold Complaint Suit
Jul 27 2018 // A police officer in Mississippi has been awarded $20,000 in damages after a federal jury ruled his police department retaliated against him for complaining about mold in his office. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal...
Mississippi Insurance Producer Surrenders License After Cease & Desist Order
Jul 23 2018 // A Mississippi insurance producer has surrendered his licensed after being served a cease and desist order by the Mississippi Insurance Department. According to a statement from MID, James Michael Brand surrendered his...
Mississippi County to Spend $3M on Flood Study
Jul 16 2018 // Governments in DeSoto County, Mississippi will spend more than $3 million to study flooding. WHBQ-TV reports that half the money will come from the federal government, while half will come from DeSoto County and local...
Mississippi Highway Patrol to Pay $500K in Lawsuit Over Fatal Wreck
Jul 16 2018 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol is paying $500,000 in a lawsuit over a fatal wreck that happened when a state trooper was driving fast on a dark highway without his blue lights flashing. The crash happened about 1:30 a.m....
Former Mississippi Agent Gets 6 Months for Role in Tax Evasion Scheme
Jul 12 2018 // A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former insurance broker to six months in prison for helping former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps evade taxes. In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge...
Mississippi Agent Accused of Not Forwarding Premiums to Insurers
Jul 2 2018 // A cease and desist order has been issued to a Mississippi insurance agent accused of failing to forward premiums to the respective insurance companies. The Mississippi Insurance Department said that it issued the order...
Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Crash Suit by Helicopter Pilot
Jul 2 2018 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed over a 2009 helicopter accident that left its pilot partially paralyzed. Justices ruled 6-2 that a proper complaint was not filed by Rob Hammons of...
Mississippi County Authorities Searching for Car Thieves on ATVs
Jun 29 2018 // Investigators in one north Mississippi County are looking for thieves who have been riding all-terrain vehicles to break into cars at night. WHBQ-TV reports that at least two dozen vehicles in a rural area of southern...
