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LNG facility hoping to begin exporting natural gas

Associated Press — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:02:57 +0000

PASCAGOULA — Big changes may be coming for Gulf LNG, the liquefied natural gas terminal that has two huge storage tanks on the horizon south of Pascagoula. The owners want to begin exporting natural gas. It would be quite the turnaround for the $1.1-billion terminal built more than two years ago to import the super-chilled [...]

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Tire executives say plant needed to meet global demand

Associated Press — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:04:40 +0000

WEST POINT — Executives with Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. say they will build a new tire plant in Mississippi because they see a global supply shortage for tires. State and company officials gathered Monday at the Ritz Theater & Conference Center in West Point to celebrate the company’s plans to build a factory. Later, Gov. [...]

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State’s cotton to make more room for corn in 2013

MBJ Staff — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:25:41 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Corn is the anticipated biggest winner and cotton the biggest loser as Mississippi producers shuffle commodity acres to take advantage of market conditions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its prospective plantings report March 28. In it, the state’s corn acreage is predicted to reach 1.05 million acres, a 28 percent increase [...]

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Index: Property values continued their rebound into 2013

MBJ Staff — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:25:07 +0000

OXFORD – The latest FNC Residential Price Index (RPI) indicates that U.S. property values continued to recover through January — the 11th consecutive month of rising prices. Despite the uneven pace of price gains across different geographical markets, there are clear signs that the housing recovery is increasingly widespread, according to the Oxford-based mortgage technology [...]

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State producers bullish on future of peanut crop

MBJ Staff — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:16:06 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi producers expect peanuts to remain a strong commodity in years to come with a steady global demand and new marketing opportunities. “The demand for peanuts will stay in place because of global economics and population,” said Mike Phillips, plant and soil sciences department head at Mississippi State University. “International markets rely [...]

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FNC index shows continuing rise in U.S. home prices

MBJ Staff — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:36:42 +0000

OXFORD — The latest FNC Residential Price Index (RPI) shows that the recovery of U.S. property values has continued through November — the ninth consecutive month of price gains driven largely by rising homes sales and moderate economic growth. An imbalance between rising demand and limited supply continues to be an important factor for sustained [...]

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State’s pecan growers smiling over price, demand

MBJ Staff — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:23:36 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — With prices and demand for the state’s pecans high, this year’s predicted average to above-average yield is good news for growers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates the 2012 crop will yield 2.5 million pounds of pecans. While this yield is down significantly from the 5 million pounds harvested in 2011, it [...]

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Hood files suit, Pickering issues demand against supervisor

Associated Press — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:19:34 +0000

JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood has filed suit against Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham, demanding he repay money state auditors say he earned double-dipping while on the clock at his former city job. Auditor Stacey Pickering’s office contends Graham, between 2004 and 2007 as a Jackson police spokesman and 911 dispatch supervisor, earned almost [...]

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Mayor pleads guilty to witness tampering; Pickering issues demand

Associated Press — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:04:33 +0000

WALNUT GROVE — A Mississippi mayor who also worked as a jail warden pleaded guilty yesterday to witness tampering and resigned from office after facing charges that he took a female inmate to a hotel to have sex. Grady Sims was mayor of Walnut Grove for 30 years before pleading guilty in U.S. District Court. [...]

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UMMC letting go 115 workers, cites weak demand

MBJ Staff — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:50:15 +0000

JACKSON — The University of Mississippi Medical Center is reducing the size of its workforce by approximately 115 employees. Coupled with a decision to not fill 90 vacant positions, the UMMC workforce will be about 2 percent smaller than it was at the end of 2011, according to Dr. James E. Keeton, vice chancellor for [...]

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