by Associated Press Published: May 16,2013
Tags: aviation, construction, contractor, death, defense, employee, fatality, military, runway, work, worker, workplace safety
COLUMBUS — A contract worker involved in an accident at Columbus Air Force Base has died from his injuries. Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant says 24-year-old James Meyers of Columbus was working on a runway project on the base when he was injured. Merchant says it appears Meyers died from blunt force trauma. Merchant says [...] [...]
COLUMBIA — Hospice Compassus of Brentwood, Tenn., has received approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a new office location in Columbia. The expansion will create additional access to comprehensive and compassionate care for the residents of Columbia and surrounding areas, and it will impact economic development in the community through the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 22,2013
Tags: contaminate, contamination, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oilrig, pil spill, pollutant, pollution, restaurant, seafood, state agency, state government, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
JACKSON — Mississippi has become the third state to sue BP PLC over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Attorney General Jim Hood announced the state had filed lawsuits in federal and state court. The move comes one day before the three-year statute of limitations expires for claims related to the April 20, 2010, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 15,2013
Tags: compose, composer, dead, death, died, entertainer, entertainment, music, obituary, song, songwriter
RIDGELAND — Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68. Jackson died yesterday morning at his home in Ridgeland, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. Jackson had been sick with cancer for about a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 14,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, cuonty government, death, died, elected offical, lawmaker, legislative, legisltor, obituary, politician, Politics, public official, state government, supervisor
JACKSON — Hinds County Supervisor Doug Anderson has died. Fellow supervisor Robert Graham announced Anderson, 74, died Saturday at St. Dominic Hospital, reports WLBT-TV. Anderson was hospitalized April 3 after reacting unfavorably to medication. He had also been hospitalized in March. In addition to 19 years as a supervisor, Anderson was a state senator for [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 12,2013
Tags: bench, case, court, death, died, employee, fatality, federal agency, fish, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, machinery, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, pet food, plant, worker
GULFPORT — The mother of a 24-year-old man who died last year during a machinery incident at Omega Protein has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The suit, filed by Cynthia Hebert, the mother of Christopher Allen Hebert, seeks unspecified damages. The suit was filed April 5 in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. [...] [...]
SHUQUALAK — A strong spring storm that socked the Midwest with ice and heavy, wet snow made its way east, raking the South with tornadoes Thursday, with three deaths blamed on the rough weather and thousands of people without power. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said Thursday one person died and several people [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
Tags: accident, bench, case, cvacation, death, disaster, ecosystem, environment, explosion, fatality, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, pollution, restaurant, seafood, testimony, tourism, tourist, trail, visitor, wildlife, witness
NEW ORLEANS — BP is scheduled to call its first witness today at a trial designed to determine causes of its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and assign fault to the companies involved in the deadly disaster. Halliburton, BP PLC’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling project, rested its case [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, contaminate, contamination, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, oil spill, oilrig, payout, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, settlement, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has rejected BP’s request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. Before a hearing today, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier already had upheld court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau’s [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2013
Tags: death, elect, election, executive, governor, lawmaker, legislative, legislator, Legislature, political campaign, politician, Politics, special election, state government, suicide, vote, voter, Voting
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Gov. Phil Bryant has pushed back the date of a special election to fill a House seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Jessica Upshaw. Bryant yesterday changed the District 95 election to May 28. If a runoff is necessary, it’ll be June 18. Candidates’ new qualifying deadline is April [...] [...]
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