by Associated Press Published: June 17,2013
Tags: ballot, city government, elected official, election, mayor, mayoral candidate, municipal, municipality, politician, Politics, poll, public official, vote, voter, Voting
HATTIESBURG — Campaign workers for the candidate who came out 37 votes short of being elected mayor of Hattiesburg are going into their second week of inspecting ballots. Once Dave Ware’s campaign is done, it will be time for Mayor Johnny DuPree’s campaign workers to do the same thing. Some allegations of impropriety have come [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 17,2013
Tags: alderman, city govern, conflict of interest, elected official, election, emt, law enforcement, politician, Politics, poll, public office, public official, sheriff, vote, voter, Voting
BROOKHAVEN — Brookhaven alderman-elect Randy Belcher has decided to resign as a deputy sheriff and stay with his elected position. Belcher was elected alderman in May. He is to take office July 1. According to state law, Belcher could not simultaneously serve in two branches of government. The alderman’s post is considered legislative and the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 14,2013
Tags: city, city government, death, elected official, mayor, municipal, municipality, obituary, politician, Politics, public official, race relations
MCCOMB — Former McComb Mayor Newton H. James, a white businessman who was among community leaders who worked to end tensions during the civil rights movement in 1960s, has died at the age of 96. Officials with Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home say James died Thursday at Beacham Memorial Hospital in Magnolia. Services will be at 10 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 14,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, budget, convention, county, county government, elected official, meeting, politician, Politics, public official, supervisor, tax
BILOXI — Mississippi supervisors gather on the Gulf Coast next week to talk about roads and bridges, economic development, water resources and other issues. The core issue is money. Counties, just like municipalities, are faced with dwindling tax bases and rising costs. Something has to be done without harm to the taxpayers, says Steve A. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 14,2013
Tags: city, city government, elected official, election, mayor, municipal, municipality, poll, public official, re-election, record, vote, voter, Voting
ANGUILLA — When Anguilla Mayor Merlin Richardson takes his oath of office July 1, it will be the 10th time and he will be expanding a record no other mayor in Mississippi can touch. Richardson, 81, is the longest continuously serving mayor in the state with 36 years in office, according to the Mississippi Municipal [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 11,2013
Tags: alderman, city government, coin toss, elected official, election, political campaign, politician, Politics, poll, public official, vote, voter, Voting
RIENZI — Harold W. Palmer has won a coin toss and the election to an alderman’s post in Rienzi. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports town officials learned this past week from the Secretary of State’s Office that the tie vote between Palmer, with 45 votes, and Melissa Bearden Morgan, 45 votes, had to be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 5,2013
Tags: court, elected official, judge, justice, law, lawmaker, legal, letter, plea, poinson, Politicians, Politics, President, public official, ricin, Senator, terror, terrorism, terrorist, trial
TUPELO — A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge. James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo had been scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in U.S. District Court in Oxford. His lawyer, George Lucas, waived Dutschke’s right to appear in a court filing yesterday [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 3,2013
Tags: crime, elected official, grand jury, indict, indictment, judge, law, lawmaker, legal, letter, mail, poison, politician, Politics, post, President, public official, ricin, Senator, trial
JACKSON — A federal grand jury has indicted a Mississippi man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials. The 5-count indictment charges 41-year-old James Everett Dutschke with developing, producing and stockpiling the poison ricin, threatening the president and others and attempting to impede the investigation. If convicted on the charges, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 31,2013
Tags: elected official, fedewral agency, fgederal government, import, lawmaker, public official, seafood. food, Senator, shimper, shrimp, shrimping, subsidy
GULF OF MEXICO — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is supportive of the U.S. Department of Commerce taking the next steps to ensure that the shrimping industry on the Gulf Coast is protected from unfairly subsidized shrimp imports. Earlier this week, the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration announced preliminary affirmative countervailing duty (CVD) determinations on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 30,2013
Tags: bench, case, court, elected official, election, judge, judicial, law, lawsuit, legal, poll, public office, public official, vote, voter, Voting
HATTIESBURG — Mississippi’s Supreme Court has appointed Circuit Judge David H. Strong of McComb to preside over a lawsuit challenging the qualifications of three city council candidates and seeking to halt the June 4 election in Hattiesburg. The Hattiesburg American reports Strong was appointed after another judge removed himself from the case. Last week, Ward 1 [...] [...]
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