Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Zeta Leaves Southeast Louisiana Reeling Before Heading Northeast
Oct 30 2020 // A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it barreled northeast on Oct. 29 after ripping through Louisiana and Mississippi where storm-weary residents were advised to stay indoors overnight while officials...
Hurricane Zeta Slams Louisiana With High Winds, Storm Surge
Oct 28 2020 // Oct 28 06:10 PM. Hurricane Zeta smashed into Louisiana on Wednesday with 110-mile-per-hour (175 kph) winds and what government trackers called “a life-threatening storm surge,” the third hurricane to hit the...
Louisiana Hunkers Down as Zeta Takes Aim at State
Oct 28 2020 // Louisiana prepared for the sixth lashing this year from a Gulf Coast system as Tropical Storm Zeta sped off the Yucatan Peninsula bringing high winds and rain to a region still reeling from a series of storms. Zeta was...
Slabbert Succeeds Clementi as Chief Executive Officer of MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd.
Oct 28 2020 // MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd. (MS AUL), the Lloyd’s re/insurer, announced the appointment of Johan Slabbert as chief executive officer. Slabbert will take up the role on Nov. 1, 2020, subject to regulatory...
Mississippi Receives $23M in Federal Funds for Flood Relief
Sep 28 2020 // Mississippi has received nearly $23 million in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to repair federal roadways that were damaged by severe flooding. U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith announced the...
Hurricane Sally Makes Landfall on Alabama’s Gulf Coast
Sep 16 2020 // Hurricane Sally made landfall on Alabama’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning as a Category Two hurricane, spreading strong winds inland across southeastern Alabama and western Florida. Upon landfall, winds were clocked...
Historic Flooding from Hurricane Sally Could Hit Gulf Coast
Sep 15 2020 // Hurricane Sally drew closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday morning, threatening historic floods, the National Hurricane Center said, with more than two feet (61 cm)of rain expected in some areas. The second strong storm...
Update: Hurricane Sally Threatens U.S. Gulf Coast as ‘Rainmaker’
Sep 14 2020 // Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the U.S. National...
NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane
Sep 14 2020 // Update 4:00 pm EST: Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the...
NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane
Sep 14 2020 // Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as former Tropical Storm Sally strengthened to a hurricane status and churned across the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center...
Mississippi City Hit by April Tornado Awaiting Repayment for $1.45M Cleanup Costs
Sep 2 2020 // A southwest Mississippi city has paid $1.45 million to clean up from an April 23 tornado and now awaits reimbursement from federal and state disaster agency. The Enterprise-Journal reports McComb made its final payment to...
MS Amlin Names Everest Re’s Carrier as Chief Underwriting Officer as 3 Step Down
Aug 26 2020 // MS Amlin Underwriting Limited, the Lloyd’s (re)insurer, has appointed Andrew Carrier to the new position of chief underwriting officer. Carrier will be responsible for managing all of MS AUL’s underwriting...
Hurricane Laura’s Timing, Direction Bring Harvey, Katrina, Rita to Mind
Aug 25 2020 // Tropical Storm Laura morphed into a hurricane on Aug. 25, 2020 — three years to the day after Hurricane Harvey swept ashore on the Texas Gulf Coast — and is expected to make landfall just days before the 15-year...
Louisiana to Get $205M in BP Spill Money for Coastal Restoration
Aug 17 2020 // Louisiana is getting another $205 million in BP oil spill money to restore its coast. Most of that — $176 million — will use sediment dredged from the Mississippi River to build 1,200 acres (485 hectares) of marsh in...
2 Workers Die from Burn Injuries After Mississippi Recycling Plant Explosion
Aug 17 2020 // Two workers severely injured in an explosion at a Mississippi processing plant have died, authorities confirmed. The explosion happened Aug. 10 at the DAR PRO Solutions plant at the Greater Jackson Industrial Park near...
Federal Judge in Mississippi Calls On Supreme Court to Examine Qualified Immunity
Aug 12 2020 // A federal judge in Mississippi has issued a sharply worded ruling that calls on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the principle of qualified immunity, which protects law enforcement officers from being sued for some of...
Climate Risk Analytics Firm Gets Capital Injections from Liberty and MS&AD
Jul 30 2020 // Jupiter, a Silicon Valley startup provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk, announced it has raised additional capital from insurers Liberty Mutual and MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, and SYSTEMIQ, a...
Mississippi Governor Adds 10 Counties to Mask Mandate
Jul 22 2020 // Starting Monday, people are required to wear masks in public in 23 out of 82 counties in Mississippi, per a new executive order by Gov. Tate Reeves. “COVID-19 is spreading and killing in our state. It’s not a...
Mississippi Gov Looks to Expand COVID Restrictions to More Counties
Jul 21 2020 // Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he is likely to extend the time for restrictions in counties with rapidly expanding cases of the new coronavirus, and he could add several other counties to the list. The current...
Former Mississippi Priest Accused of Wire Fraud, Stealing $18K from Parishioners
Jul 20 2020 // A former priest in Mississippi has been indicted for wire fraud after federal investigators said he took more than $18,000 from parishioners for personal expenses. Father Lenin Vargas, who led St. Joseph Catholic Church in...
