by Associated Press Published: May 12,2013
Tags: agreement, health, health benefit, health care, insurance, job, layoff, low income, medical, medicine, poor, pregnancy, public health, social worker, state agency
JACKSON — Mississippi Medicaid officials will resume paying state Health Department workers to help women with high-risk pregnancies. The agreement, announced Friday, starts June 1 and runs through June 30, 2014. Medicaid has typically paid the Health Department more than $8.5 million a year for the program. The new agreement reverses last month’s decision by [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 7,2013
Tags: agreement, computer, development, expand, expansion, geospatial, license, research, sale, science, sell, software, technology
HANCOCK COUNTY — NVision Solutions Inc. has expanded its engineering services and capabilities through a strategic licensing agreement with QinetiQ North America Inc. (QNA) and the addition of personnel with expertise in underwater sensors and acoustic telemetry. Under its agreement with QNA, NVision will have the exclusive right to further develop and license to end [...] [...]
GULFPORT — Solar America Corp. has executed a memorandum of understanding with Solar Energy Labs Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., a developer of solar hot water solutions. Solar America and Solar Energy Labs will collaborate on incorporation of Solar America’s Solar Power Station technologies into Solar Energy Labs Intellement photovoltaic hot water system. “The opportunity to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 14,2013
Tags: accident, agreement, court, damages, death, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, justice, law, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, pollution, restaurant, ruling, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has approved Transocean Ltd.’s agreement with the Justice Department to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and pay $400 million in criminal penalties for its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo accepted Transocean’s plea and imposed the agreed-upon sentence during [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T’S wireline employees represented by the Communications Workers of America have voted to ratify a three-year contract for the AT&T Southeast region. The contract covers about 22,000 AT&T wireline employees in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. On Aug. 17, AT&T wireline employees represented by the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 4,2012
Tags: agreement, electric, electricity, light, lighting, organization, power, power generation, power transmission, regional, transmission, utility
JACKSON — Five Entergy utilities have taken a key step toward membership in a regional transmission organization via submission of the executed transmission owner agreement to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, or MISO. The utilities – Entergy Mississippi Inc., Entergy Texas Inc., Entergy Louisiana, LLC, Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC and Entergy New Orleans [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 5,2012
Tags: agreement, employee, employer, job, labor, management, owener, ownership, telecommunication, telephone, union, wire, wireline, work, worker
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T reports it has reached a new tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America District 3 in wireline contract negotiations for AT&T Southeast (BellSouth Telecommunications). The three-year agreement covers more than 22,000 wireline employees in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and will be submitted [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 9,2012
Tags: acquisition, agreement, bank, banker, banking, deadline, finance, finasncial institution, merger, purchase, regulator, regulatory approval, sale, sell
JACKSON — Trustmark Corporation and BancTrust Financial Group Inc. report the definitive agreement dated May 28, 2012, pursuant to which BancTrust would merge into Trustmark, has been amended to accommodate the closing of the merger in early 2013. As such, the latest possible closing date for the merger has been extended from Dec. 31, 2012, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 15,2012
Tags: agreement, appeal, bernch, courts, electricity, judge, legal, power, subsidiary, utility
WASHINGTON D.C. — A federal appeals court yesterday rejected an effort by Louisiana utility regulators to make Entergy Corp. subsidiaries in Arkansas and Mississippi pay for ending an agreement with their Entergy counterparts in Louisiana and Texas. The ruling by an appeals court in Washington deals with an agreement that has proven beneficial to customers [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 6,2012
Tags: agreement, bargain, bargaining, communication, Extension, labor, negoaition, telecommunications, telephone, union, workers
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T reports a settlement was not reached with the Communications Workers of America by the 11:59 p.m. EDT Aug. 4 expiration of the core wireline contract in the Southeast region, but the company and union have agreed to a five-day extension of contract negotiations. The contract was extended until 11:59 p.m. EDT [...] [...]
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