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Supervisors want massive, multi-facility renovation project

Associated Press — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:28:50 +0000

HERNANDO — The DeSoto Board of Supervisors plans a massive facilities overhaul affecting dozens of buildings and offices and costing an estimated $14.4 million. The Commercial Appeal reports the projects include relocating juvenile justice functions from the crowded courthouse, building a 230-bed expansion at the new jail site, and purchasing buildings for Facilities Management and [...]

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Offices move to temporary site in wake of courthouse fire

MBJ Staff — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:00:40 +0000

EUPORA — Webster County government offices displaced by a recent fire that gutted the 1915-built building opened to the public with limited services at 8 a.m. today at 16 East Fox Avenue in Eupora, according to a release from Beverly Pettigrew Kraft, public information officer, Administrative Office of Courts. Offices of the Webster County Chancery [...]

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Power strip caused fire that destroyed historic court

Associated Press — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:19:27 +0000

WALTHALL — Authorities say a predawn fire that gutted the Webster County courthouse in Walthall was caused by an electrical short. Sheriff Tim Mitchell told supervisors an investigation showed yesterday’s predawn fire started when a power strip in a first-floor office on the southwest corner of the building shorted out. Mitchell says the fire marshal’s [...]

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Historic courthouse destroyed in predawn fire

Associated Press — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:16:41 +0000

WALTHALL — A predawn fire today has gutted the Webster County courthouse. The two-story courthouse was built in 1915. The town of Walthall is located just north of Eupora on Mississippi Highway 9 Eupora Fire Chief Richard Love says the call came in to the Emergency 911 Center about 2:20 a.m. He says the southwest [...]

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Courthouse noted for historic civil rights trials to close

Associated Press — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:01:37 +0000

MERIDIAN — The federal judiciary says it will close the courthouse in Meridian where trials were held for Ku Klux Klansmen on charges in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers and where James H. Meredith filed his lawsuit in 1961 to integrate the University of Mississippi. The Meridian building is among six courthouses [...]

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Watkins buys courthouse, plans arts institute

Associated Press — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:20:21 +0000

JACKSON — The James Eastland Federal Courthouse in downtown Jackson has been tentatively sold at auction to Watkins Development for $1.45 million. Owner David Watkins, also the lead developer of the Farish Street Entertainment District, tells The Clarion-Ledger he plans to transform the 115,000-square-foot space into a privately funded university-level arts institute. An online auction [...]

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