Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi High Court Allows Negligence Suit Against State DOT to Proceed
Jun 7 2016 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has decided not to throw out a negligence lawsuit against the Mississippi Department of Transportation over the death of a Gulfport Bandidos Chapter officer when he crashed his motorcycle in a...
Search Ongoing For 2 Mississippi Workers Trapped In Gravel Pit Landslide
Jun 7 2016 // A search for two workers who went missing after a landslide at a gravel pit in southern Mississippi is underway, according to a spokeswoman for the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Amy Louviere said Monday the search...
Mississippi Business Owner Sentenced to 5 Years for Arson
Jun 3 2016 // The owner of a construction company in Pascagoula has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to set fire to his business. The Sun Herald reports a judge also fined 53-year-old Michael Eugene Slater and...
Mississippi Stepping Up Police Patrols, Checkpoints Through June 5
Jun 2 2016 // Wherever you travel in South Mississippi throughout this week, chances are you will see safety checkpoints or officers pulling over motorists. Police, deputies and state troopers across the Coast are making a unified...
Mississippi Passes Law to Speed up Physician Licensing Across State Lines
May 24 2016 // Out-of-state physicians could get licensed to practice in Mississippi more quickly, under a new law. Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 41 on May 16, and it became law right away. It adds Mississippi to an agreement among...
Too Much Rain Hampers Mississippi Farmers
May 11 2016 // Northeast Mississippi farmers have had to replant some of their corn and soybeans more than once because of spring downpours. It’s the third year in a row that farmers have had to fight excess water, Charlie Stokes,...
U.S. Justice Dept. to North Carolina: LGBT Law Violates Federal Civil Rights Act
May 6 2016 // A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws and can’t be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday, putting the state on notice that it is in danger of being...
FEMA Extends Deadline for Mississippi Flood Victims to File Proof of Loss Form
May 6 2016 // Mississippi victims of March flooding now have more time to file their required Proof of Loss form, according to a statement from the Mississippi Insurance Department. Mississippi’s Commissioner of Insurance Mike...
Gulf States Fighting Metal Thefts from Ag Operations
May 4 2016 // A new group trying to reduce metal theft from agriculture operations in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said his office is creating a Mississippi Delta Agricultural...
MS Amlin Now Operating at Lloyd’s Under One Brand: MS Amlin Underwriting
May 3 2016 // MS Amlin announced it is now operating as one brand in the Lloyd’s market, as a single managing agency, MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd. Operating from 22 locations across three continents, the MS Amlin business will...
Homes on Mississippi Coast Hit by Flooding
May 2 2016 // The mayor of Gulfport, Mississippi, has declared a state of emergency because of heavy rain and widespread flooding in the largest city on the state’s Gulf Coast. Gulfport emergency managers say 5 to 12 inches of...
A.M. Best Revises Outlook for Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance
Apr 18 2016 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Mississippi Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co. in...
Mississippi Granted $13.3M for Storm Recovery, More Counties Eligible for Aid
Apr 18 2016 // Mississippi’s disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms has been extended to 13 additional counties. Gov. Phil Bryant said at the beginning of April that 11 counties were added, followed by two...
New Sheriff in Mississippi County to Crackdown on Texting While Driving
Apr 15 2016 // Tickets for texting while driving may start to rise in Harrison County. Since Troy Peterson became sheriff in January, deputies have written a total of 22 tickets — 13 citations filed in Justice Court and nine...
33 Tornadoes Hit Mississippi in First 3 Months of 2016
Apr 13 2016 // The first three months of 2016 were more active than usual in terms of severe weather in Mississippi. Ed Tarver, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, tells The Hattiesburg American the cause is...
Mississippi AG Hood Wins Right to Continue Google Probe
Apr 11 2016 // Google can’t duck an investigation by the Mississippi attorney general into objectionable search engine content that the company calls a threat to Internet freedom. A U.S. appeals court said Friday that a judge was...
Mississippi and West Virginia Governors Both Sign Ridesharing Laws
Apr 7 2016 // Mississippi and West Virginia have become the 30th and 31st states to pass legislation to create a statewide regulatory framework for ridesharing services offered by transportation network companies like Uber and...
Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Regulating Ridesharing Services
Apr 7 2016 // Mississippi will regulate Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services on a statewide basis. Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1381 Monday, which puts the state Insurance Department in charge of overseeing the services....
Tornadoes Leave Damage Behind in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
Apr 4 2016 // Strong storms plowed through Georgia on their way to the Carolinas Friday, spawning at least one confirmed tornado, after setting off tornadoes that swirled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The National Weather...
Mississippi Granted $13.3M for Storm Recovery, 11 More Counties Eligible for Aid
Apr 4 2016 // Gov. Phil Bryant says 11 additional counties have been added to Mississippi’s most recent disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms. In a news release, Bryant said Clarke, Forrest, Greene,...
