by Associated Press Published: May 15,2013
Tags: agriculture, bayou, berth, contract, dredge, forest, forester, forestry, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, port, ship, shipper, shipping, transportation, wood pellet
PASCAGOULA — Port of Pascagoula commissioners have approved a $1.5-million dredging project to prepare a Bayou Casotte berth for a specialized wood pellet exporting facility. The board awarded the $1.47 million contract to C. F. Bean, LLC for the dredging, testing, transporting and disposing of about 45,000 cubic yards of silts around Terminals E and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 9,2013
Tags: board of supervisorts, contract, corrections, county, county government, fine, fine collecting, jail, prison, supervisor
GREENWOOD — The Leflore County Board of Supervisors wants out of a two-year contract it signed with Judicial Corrections Services Inc. to collect justice court fines. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports supervisors believe the private company is siphoning too much off the top of its collection fees, which increase by $40 each month a payment is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 6,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, breach of contract, case, contract, court, doctor, health, health care, hearing, hospital, judicial, judiciary, justice, lawsuit, medical, medicine, physician, ruling
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments June 5 in a Jackson hospital’s appeal of a $2.27 million judgment for a doctor in a breach of contract lawsuit. Dr. Adolfo Morales, an ophthalmologist, had alleged Central Mississippi Medical Center breached a physician recruitment contract in 2004, which would have allowed him to [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 1,2013
Tags: contract, cutter, defense, federal government, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding, shipyard
PASCAGOULA — The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a $487-million, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division to build the sixth national security cutter, Munro (WMSL 755). “Our Coast Guard customer continues to be extremely pleased with the performance of the NSC, and this contract proves that,” said Jim French, Ingalls’ NSC program [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2013
Tags: contract, defense, employee, employer, employment, glove, job, layoff, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, payroll, plant, unemployment, work, worker, workforce
EUPORA — A Eupora manufacturer says the loss of a military contract will lead to layoffs. Officials with Ansell Hawkeye Inc. tell WTVA-TV in Tupelo the layoffs will begin May 9. The company, which employees 100 workers at the Webster County facility, says they expect to permanently layoff as many as 60 production workers. Production [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 29,2013
Tags: arrest, bribe, bribery, chage, city, city governmemnt, contract, court, crime, executive, federal government, judiciary, judiicial, justice, law, legal, mayor, municipal, municipality, plea
VICKSBURG — Mayor Paul Winfield pleaded not guilty yesterday to a federal bribery charge that accuses him of seeking $10,000 in cash in exchange for a city contract. Winfield, wearing a dark suit and red tie, said little during his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Jackson other than to give short answers to the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, clinic, contract, court, health, health care, hospital, judicial, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, medical, medicine, outpatient, surgery, trial
CANTON — St. Dominic Health Systems can prove during a trial that it has a binding contract to buy an outpatient surgery clinic in Canton that was improperly sold to a competitor, attorneys for the hospital system told the state Supreme Court yesterday. St. Dominic attorney Sheldon Alston told the high court that a Madison [...] [...]
GULFPORT — The Harrison County Utility Authority has voted to terminate S.H. Anthony, Inc.’s contract for operation and maintenance of its facilities. Members said company owner Sean Anthony violated board and state ethics policies when he financed a car for then-director Kamran Pahlavan in 2011. Jim Simpson, attorney for the authority, said the Utility Authority [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 25,2013
Tags: bid, build, builder, building, construction, contract, contractor, demolish, demolition, health, health care, hospital, medical, medicine, renovation
JACKSON — Brasfield & Gorrie was recently awarded a multi-phase nursing unit renovation project at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. The project will consist of the complete demolition and renovation of approximately 156,000 square feet of existing nursing units. The cost of the project was not disclosed. Birmingham, Ala.-based Brasfield & Gorrie will work with [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 25,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, bridge, construction, contract, county government, highway, infrastructure, road, roadbuilder, roadbuilding, supervisor, traffic, transportation, Weather
CHATAWA — Pike County supervisors have agreed to give the contractor more time to complete work on the replacement of a bridge in the Chatawa community. The Enterprise-Journal reports contractor T.L. Wallace will have until May 17. The original deadline was April 2 but officials said recent rains hampered work on the project. The supervisors [...] [...]
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