by MBJ Staff Published: April 30,2013
Tags: award, computer, high technology, information technology, media, newspaper, remote, software, support, workplace
JACKSON — Bomgar has been named one of the top companies to work for in Atlanta by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In the small business category of the AJC’s Top 100 Workplaces for 2013, Bomgar was ranked as the No. 4 company to work for in Atlanta. Any Atlanta company with more than 50 employees is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 24,2013
Tags: bench, decision, judge, judicial, juducuary, justice, media, newspaper, public records, ruling, state agency
BILOXI — Chancery Judge Jennifer Schloegel has ruled she cannot force the Mississippi Department of Resources to provide the Sun Herald records the agency no longer possesses. Schloegel ruled the newspaper would need to add the State Auditor’s Office as a defendant in a public records lawsuit it filed against the DMR. The Sun Herald [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 19,2013
Tags: baby, doctor, educator, health, health care, higher education, HIV, influential people, magazine, media, medical, medicine, pediatrician, pediatrics, physician, postsecondary education, public university, ranking, sexually trasmitted disease, university
JACKSON — Time magazine has named HIV specialist Dr. Hannah Gay, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In caring for a newborn infected with HIV in 2010, Gay followed an atypical treatment regimen and functionally cured [...] [...]
JACKSON — Mark Chinn and Chinn & Associates, PC have been designated 2013’s “Family Law Firm of the Year in Mississippi” by Corporate INTL Magazine. This is the fourth year in a row that Chinn & Associates has received this distinction. [...]
JACKSON — Accounting Today has released its annual list of Top 50 accounting firms and ranks HORNE LLP as the 49th largest firm in the nation by revenue. HORNE ranks as the fourth largest accounting and business advisory firm in the Gulf Coast region with 12 offices spread throughout the Southeast in five states. HORNE [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 15,2013
Tags: agenct, appeal, author, bench, blog, book, case, court, judicial, judoiciary, justice, law, law enforcement, lawsuit, legal, media, prosecutor, tort, trial
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated the appeal of a lawsuit against a former federal prosecutor and a political blogger over a book they co-wrote about the judicial corruption case involving former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. In 2011, FBI agent Hal Neilson sued authors Tom Dawson and Alan Lange and a publishing company. [...] [...]
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant’s staff suggested that the Department of Public Safety should delay fulfilling requests for gun permit records until a law could be enacted to shield them from public scrutiny, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. The emails, obtained under a public records request, show Bryant staff counsel Jack Wilson on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 5,2013
Tags: bill, concealed weapon, executive, governor, gun permit, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, Legislature, media, public information, state government
JACKSON — A new Mississippi law says the public no longer has access to records of state-issued permits to carry concealed weapons. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 485 yesterday, and it became law immediately. Legislators pushing the bill said they were responding to a New York newspaper’s decision earlier this year to publish [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 1,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, build, builder, construction, contractor, court, decision, defamation, justice, law, legal, media, television station
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court have declined to hear an appeal from two businessmen who said they were defamed by a Gulf Coast television station. Gerald “Heath” Hudson of Moss Point and his father, Arthur “Gerald” Hudson of Lucedale, sued WLOX-TV in 2006 in Harrison County Circuit Court. A Harrison County jury in 2009 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 1,2013
Tags: bill, concealed weapon, executive, governor, gun, handgun, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, Legislature, media, permit, public record, public safety, shooting, state government
JACKSON — The Mississippi House yesterday sent the governor a bill to block public access to information about state-issued permits for people to carry concealed weapons. The move comes even as the Department of Public Safety has delayed responding to Freedom of Information requests for the records. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant is expected to sign [...] [...]
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