Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Home Explosion Caused by Propane Leak Kills 2
Oct 25 2016 // Officials say two people were killed in a house explosion in Newton County. Coroner Danny Shoemaker tells The Clarion-Ledger that an 81-year-old man and 78-year-old woman died in the explosion Saturday night. Irven...
Disaster Loans Available to Mississippi Businesses Affected by Drought
Oct 19 2016 // The U.S. Small Business Administration says federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available in Mississippi as a result of a drought that began Aug. 9. The SBA said in a news release the loans would be available to...
MS Amlin’s Rayner Joins Pioneer Underwriters as Group Director of Underwriting
Oct 18 2016 // Pioneer Underwriters announces that Graeme Rayner has commenced his role as group director of underwriting, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Darren Doherty. Rayner, whose appointment was first announced in August 2016,...
FEMA Questions Mississippi City’s Spending of 2014 Tornado Recovery Grant
Oct 17 2016 // A division of the federal government says the city of Louisville, Miss., should repay a $25.4 million grant awarded for recovery from a 2014 tornado. However, state Auditor Stacey Pickering said he is working with federal...
LCTA Now Writing Workers’ Comp in Mississippi
Oct 12 2016 // LCTA Workers’ Comp (LCTA), a Louisiana’s workers’ compensation provider, has expanded its geographic reach to include Mississippi. The company has also secured a license to write insurance in Arkansas. On...
LCTA Workers’ Comp Expands to Mississippi and Arkansas
Oct 11 2016 // LCTA Workers’ Comp announced that it will be expanding its geographic reach to include Mississippi and Arkansas. LCTA at the start of the month began writing lines of workers’ comp coverage to...
Feds Accuse Mississippi Strip Club of Mistreating African-American Dancers
Oct 6 2016 // Clothed in the power of the law, the federal government is again suing a Mississippi strip club, saying black strippers should be treated equally when they take it all off. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Mississippi Insurance Agent Charged in Prison Bribery Case
Sep 14 2016 // An insurance agent from Jackson, Miss., is the latest person indicted in a corruption case tied to the former head of the Mississippi prison system. Guy E. “Butch” Evans, 61, appeared Aug. 24 in U.S. District...
Coastal American Insurance Rolls Out Private Flood Endorsement in Mississippi
Sep 8 2016 // Coastal American Insurance Co. has introduced a combined wind and flood insurance policy for policyholders in Mississippi. The new private flood endorsement is designed to eliminate disputes over concurrent causation,...
Mississippi Physician Accused of Trading Prescription Drugs For Escorts
Sep 6 2016 // Federal officials say a Mississippi physician offered to illegally trade prescriptions for escort services and later sold prescriptions for money to the escort and an undercover agent. Dr. Michael Loebenberg of Ocean...
Mississippi Issues Cease and Desist Order to Agency Accused of Misappropriating Premiums
Sep 1 2016 // Investigators from the Mississippi Insurance Department have issued a Cease and Desist Order to LaDonna Carlisle Lightsey and the Carlisle Agency, LLC operating in Waynesboro, Miss. Lightsey is a nonresident insurance...
2 Mississippi Communities Declared Ineligible for Federal Flood Aid
Aug 26 2016 // As thousands of south Louisiana flood victims apply for disaster assistance, residents of two Mississippi communities have been told they are not eligible for assistance. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokes...
FEMA Claims Mississippi Misused $30M in Funds to Retrofit Homes After Katrina
Aug 23 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it won’t repay Mississippi for nearly $30 million spent to retrofit homes after Hurricane Katrina unless the state can prove the money was well spent. The state failed to...
Families of 3 Exonerated Men Settle for $16.5M with Mississippi Counties, Insurers
Aug 22 2016 // A $16.5 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that claims three Mississippi men were imprisoned for decades for a crime they did not commit, lawyers said. According to The Hattiesburg American, a settlement...
Texas Lawyer Accused of Fraud in BP Oil Spill Case Acquitted in Mississippi
Aug 19 2016 // A prominent Texas lawyer was acquitted on Thursday of charges he made up thousands of fake clients to sue BP Plc for damages that the oil company caused in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill, court records show. Mikal Watts was...
Mississippi Counties, Insurers Settle for $16.5M with Families of 3 Exonerated Men
Aug 9 2016 // A $16.5 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that claims three men were imprisoned for decades because they were forced to confess to a crime they did not commit, lawyers said. The Hattiesburg American reports...
Louisiana Politicians Join Suits Blaming Big Oil for Coastal Ruin
Aug 9 2016 // The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-sized stretch of Louisiana has disappeared. But few politicians would blame Big Oil for ecosystem abuse in a state where the industry employs...
Golf Cart Thefts Reported in 3 Mississippi Counties
Aug 4 2016 // A man in Kiln, Miss., is accused of possessing a golf cart stolen from a state park there, and Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam says police in at least two neighboring counties also report recent golf cart thefts. Adam...
University of Mississippi Medical Center Pays $2.75M Penalty for Lost Laptop
Jul 28 2016 // Officials at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said they have paid a $2.75 million penalty to the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of an agreement to resolve...
Mississippi Nissan Plant Fined for Safety Violations
Jul 26 2016 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, for two violations. WLBT-TV reports a complaint inspection in March had one serious violation and one repeat...
