by Associated Press Published: November 8,2012
Tags: accident, bench, class action, court, death, decision, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fairness, fatality, fuel, gasoline, hearing, hospitality, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, ruling, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a fairness hearing for a proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims spawned by BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During today’s hearing, the London-based oil giant and a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys will urge U.S. District [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 6,2012
Tags: ail, ailment, death, disease, epidemic, fatality, health, health care, ill, illness, mosquito, public health, sick, sickness, virus
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting three new human cases of West Nile virus, the lowest weekly total in months. The new cases were reported in Jones, Lincoln and Simpson counties, bringing the state total to 236 cases and five deaths. This is the highest number of WNV cases ever [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 30,2012
Tags: accident, bench, contamination, court, death, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, explosion, fatal, fatality, gasoline, justice, law, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, processor, seafood, shrimp, trade association, trial
GULF OF MEXICO — With looming legal deadlines related to the 2010 BP oil spill, dozens of shrimp processors along the Gulf Coast face a difficult dilemma, with either decision having the potential to jeopardize the future of their businesses and the region’s seafood industry, according to a leading trade association. All pending claims for [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 26,2012
Tags: complex, death, explode, explosion, facility, fatality, hurt, injury, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, plant, workplace safety
REDWOOD — A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by a man who was injured in a deadly explosion at an International Paper Co. mill in Mississippi in 2008. Jeb D. Slade settled his lawsuit after a hearing yesterday in U.S. District Court in Natchez. The terms of the deal were not [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 25,2012
Tags: accident, death, disaster, dusaster recovery, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drillinmg, Oil, oil sheen, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — BP says it has capped and plugged an abandoned piece of equipment that is believed to be the source of a sheen spotted near the site of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London-based oil giant said today that it successfully placed a 750-pound cap over an [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: agriculture, agriculture commissioner, candidate, car accident, city government, death, election, farm, farmer, farming, fatality, lawmaker, mayor, municipal, municipality, obituary, politican, poll, state agency, state government, vote, voter, Voting
PICKENS — Mayor Joel Gill, who was a past candidate for Mississippi agriculture commissioner and U.S. Congress, has died in a car accident. He was 61. His wife Ann Gill said he died yesterday afternoon in the accident. Gill, a Democrat, was elected mayor in 2009 and had served as an alderman before then in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: accident, death, disaster, disaster recovery, disaster response, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — A sheen on the Gulf of Mexico likely came from oil seeping out of a piece of discarded equipment that failed to contain BP PLC’s massive 2010 oil spill, the company and the Coast Guard said. A statement from BP said a three-day inspection confirmed that its Macondo well, which blew [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 16,2012
Tags: death, epidemic, fatality, health, health care, illness, medical, medicine, mosquito, public health, record, sickness, state agency, virus
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) reports 12 new human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) for 2012. The new cases were reported in Coahoma (1), Forrest (1), Hancock (1), Lauderdale (1), Lowndes (1), Madison (1), Pearl River (1), Rankin (3), Walthall (1) and Wayne (1) counties, bringing the state total [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 12,2012
Tags: accident, blowout, death, drill, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, gasoline, hospitaslity, natural gas, offshore drilling, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, sheen energy, spill, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wrechage
GULF OF MEXICO — Federal scientists and BP say oil appears to have leaked last month from the drilling wreckage lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico near where a BP well blew out in 2010, causing the nation’s worst offshore spill. A probe started after a sheen was discovered Sept. 16 in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 9,2012
Tags: death, disease, epidemic, fatality, health, health care, illness, medical, medicine, mosquito, public health, sickness, state agency, virus
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The state Department of Health is reporting 13 new human cases of West Nile virus. The new cases were reported in DeSoto (1), Forrest (1), Hancock (1), Hinds (2), Holmes (1), Lauderdale (1), Pike (1), Panola (1), Rankin (1), Scott (1), Walthall (1) and Winston (1) counties, bringing the state total to [...] [...]
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