Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee Deal with Major Flooding
Sep 28 2018 // Flash floods trapped people in homes and vehicles in north Alabama on Wednesday, as heavy rain in Mississippi caused flash flooding that inundated about 100 homes and 25 businesses and one person died and emergency...
Mississippi Urges Drivers to Watch for Road Workers After Multiple Incidents
Sep 24 2018 // State transportation officials are urging drivers to be more careful in work zones after six road workers were hit on job sites last week. WLBT-TV reports three workers were treated for injuries after a produce truck...
Heavy Rains from Gordon Cause Dam Breach in Mississippi
Sep 10 2018 // Officials said that a dam is breaching on the edge of Mississippi’s Delta region after heavy rains during Tropical Storm Gordon. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for parts of Carroll County...
Mississippi Woman Awarded $2M in Lawsuit Against OB-GYN Over Ruptured Uterus
Sep 7 2018 // A Mississippi woman whose uterus ruptured during childbirth has been awarded more than $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against an OB-GYN. The Columbus Dispatch reports a jury awarded Talanda Blevins the funds...
Florida Insurance Chief Warns of AOB Scams as Storm Gordon Lingers Over Gulf Coast
Sep 5 2018 // Florida’s top insurance regulator has issued a warning to residents facing damage from Tropical Storm Gordon, the first major storm to impact the state in the 2018 Hurricane Season. Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Update: Tropical Storm Gordon Weakens as It Makes Landfall
Sep 4 2018 // Tropical Storm Gordon weakened after making landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border and lashing the U.S. Gulf Coast with high winds and heavy rain early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC)...
Tropical Storm Gordon to Become Hurricane, Strike Gulf Coast Tuesday; Flood Damage Expected
Sep 3 2018 // Tropical Storm Gordon will grow into a hurricane as it grazes offshore natural gas and oil fields, where it has already sparked evacuations, before coming ashore over the lower Mississippi Valley later on Tuesday or early...
Mississippi Supreme Court Says Privacy Suit Against Google Can Continue
Sep 3 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...
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...
