by Associated Press Published: April 10,2013
Tags: acquisition, auction, author, buy, heirlooms, literary, novelist, papers, purchase, sale, sell, short story, writer
OXFORD — It’s a literary treasure trove. William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Legion d’Honneur medal presented to him by France in 1951. Faulkner’s Nobel handwritten acceptance speech draft. All in an estate package that includes 26 letters and postcards sent by Faulkner, 25 leather-bound columns of the author’s work and manuscripts of [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 10,2013
Tags: acquisition, attorney, bank, banker, banking, bench, class action, court, finance, financial institution, judge, justice, law, law firm, lawsuit, lawyer, legal, merger, purchase, sale, sell
KOSCIUSKO and TUPELO — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, LLP of San Diego has started a class action, through an amended complaint filed on April 8 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of all holders of First M&F Corporation (FMFC) common stock as of Feb. 7, 2013, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 2,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, appliance, buy, chef, cook, cooking, culinary arts, purchase, retail, retailer, retailing, sale, sell
RIDGELAND — Cowboy Maloney’s Appliance, Electronics and Bedding Superstores is expanding its Ridgeland location by acquiring the recently closed Viking Cooking School space. The store will be known as Cowboy’s Kitchens. The cost of the acquisition was not disclosed. Since its inception of the, the Viking Store by Cowboy Maloney’s in Ridgeland has seen an [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 29,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, bank, banker, banking, branch office, buy, expand, expansion, finance, financial institution, purchase, sale, sell
OXFORD — Trustmark National Bank, a subsidiary of Trustmark Corporation, has signed a definitive branch purchase and assumption agreement pursuant to which it will acquire the two branches of SOUTHBank, F.S.B., serving the Oxford market. The agreement contemplates the assumption of selected deposit accounts of approximately $11.8 million as well as the purchase of the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 25,2013
Tags: acquisition, bid, city government, county government, purchase, sale, sell, state agency, state government, tax, tax-forfeited property
MERIDIAN — The Secretary of State’s Office recently received 183 bids to purchase 103 parcels of tax-forfeited properties in Meridian and Lauderdale County, effectively returning more than $62,000 to local property tax coffers. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said, “Tax-forfeited properties are a blight on the community. Returning these properties to private taxpaying ownership also [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 25,2013
Tags: acquisition, buy, charitable organization, charity, city government, community development, construction, home, house, land, municipal, municipality, nonprofit, property, purchase, real estate, residence, residential real estate, sale, sell
HORN LAKE — Horn Lake is planning to sell some city-owned property to Habitat for Humanity for seven homes to be built by the nonprofit agency. The Commercial Appeal reports that aldermen voted last week to declare seven lots as surplus. Three appraisals will determine their fair market value — and thus the sale price. [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 5,2013
Tags: acquisition, attorney, buy, expand, expansion, law, law firm, merger, purchase, sale, sell
JACKSON — The law firms of Adams and Reese LLP and Jacksonville, Fla.-based Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes, Rogerson & Wachs (VBWR) have merged, growing Adams and Reese to 15 offices nationwide and five offices in the state of Florida. The merger was announced jointly by Adams and Reese managing partner, Charles P. Adams Jr. and VBWR shareholder, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 4,2013
Tags: acquisition, buy, charter boat, crime, investigate, investigation, investigator, land, law, legal, misappropriation, property, purchase, real estate, sale, sell, state agency
BILOXI — About $80,000 in charter boat trips are now part of a criminal investigation of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, an official has told The Sun Herald. Invoices and letters provided by the DMR indicate the trips were to sample fish for research about artificial reefs, even though the department owns a $389,000 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 25,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, board, buy, conflict of interest, investigation, land, law, legal, loan, property, purchase, sale, sell, state agncy, sweetheart deal, trust
BILOXI — The head of the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain says a board member employed by the state Department of Marine Resources asked the trust if it would buy land from her boss’ son, if the department provided some money. The proposal came from Tina Shumate, who resigned early in February as [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 21,2013
Tags: acquisition, bank, banker, banking, buy, expansion, finance, financial institution, merger, purchase, sale, sell
BILOXI — The boards of directors of Community Bank, National Association, based in Alabama and the recently acquired Community Bank, Destin, Fla., have voted to merge with Community Bank, Coast, headquartered in Biloxi. Terms were not disclosed. According to Community Bank, the merger creates a $588-million bank consisting of 15 offices of Community Bank from [...] [...]
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