BILOXI — The Harrison County Utility Authority will move quickly to hire a new executive director. The authority’s board met yesterday for the first time since last week’s firing of longtime director Kamran Pahlavan. He was dismissed because of conflict of interest concerns involving a car purchase and financing the deal through a utility authority [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 21,2013
Tags: board, city, commission, convention, director, government, meeting, municipal, municipality, search, senior management, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor
CORINTH — The Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a search for a new tourism director after accepting the resignation of Kristy White from the position. The Daily Corinthian reports the organization’s board of directors is advertising the position and expects to take applications for about three weeks New board president Luke Doehner [...] [...]
BILOXI — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has spent more than $1.4 million in public money on two recreational fishing boats leased from a foundation managed by the agency’s director. The Sun Herald reports the Mississippi Marine Resources Foundation supplies DMR with a 36-foot Topaz open fisherman and a 42-foot Californian convertible. Paid for [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 25,2012
Tags: association, bank, banker, banking, board of directors, Chief Executive Officer, director, elected, election, finance, financial institution, senior management
GULFPORT — John Hairston, CEO of Hancock Holding Co., has been elected to the board of directors of the American Banking Association. Hancock Holding is the parent of Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank. The Sun Herald reports Hairston’s election took place at the organization’s recent meeting in San Diego. He is one of nine members [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: director, disaster, disaster recovery, dredge, dredging, executive, port, resign, resignation, transportation
GULFPORT — The longtime director of Mississippi’s state-owned port is resigning after increasing scrutiny over how the Gulf Coast facility is spending $570 million in federal money it was given after Hurricane Katrina. Gulfport Port director Don Allee will resign Nov. 2, according to a news release distributed today at a port commission meeting After [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 7,2012
Tags: authority, director, fraud, government, home, house, housing, misappropriation, real estate, residence, resident, witness tampering
GREENVILLE — The former executive director of the South Delta Regional Housing Authority wants a judge let her remain free on bond pending the appeal of her prison sentence. U.S. District Court Judge Glen H. Davidson sentenced 58-year-old Ann Jefferson to 32 months in prison on Aug. 2 for embezzlement, obstruction of justice and witness [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 13,2012
Tags: cultural heritage, cultural tourism, culture, decendant, director, historic, history, home, house, library, Museum, President, tourism, tourist, visitor
BILOXI — The great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis is now the director of Beauvoir, the last home of the president of the Confederacy. The Sun Herald reports Bertram Hayes-Davis accepted the keys to the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library Wednesday. Former acting director Richard Forte Sr. will continue as chairman of the combined boards of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 28,2012
Tags: arrest, director, drugs, fraud, health, health care, hospitals, medical, medicine, military, pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs, veterans
JACKSON — An associate director at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Mississippi has been arrested and charged with prescription fraud as part of an ongoing investigation, authorities said Thursday. Dorothy White-Taylor, 59, the associate director of patient care services at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, was arrested Tuesday and released on [...] [...]
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