Mississippi Business Journal » probe http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 BP exec: Management, cost-cutting not explored in oil spill probe http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/bp-exec-management-cost-cutting-not-explored-in-oil-spill-probe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bp-exec-management-cost-cutting-not-explored-in-oil-spill-probe http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/bp-exec-management-cost-cutting-not-explored-in-oil-spill-probe/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:39:37 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=70583 NEW ORLEANS — An internal BP probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t explore whether decisions by upper-level management or cost cuts had a role in causing the disaster because investigators didn’t have access to its partners’ employees and records, a BP executive testified yesterday at a trial designed to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/05/developers-guilty-plea-prompts-commission-probe/feed/ 0 Commission sides with newspaper in school test-cheating probe http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/13/commission-sides-with-newspaper-in-school-test-cheating-probe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=commission-sides-with-newspaper-in-school-test-cheating-probe http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/13/commission-sides-with-newspaper-in-school-test-cheating-probe/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:16:00 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62570 GREENWOOD — The Mississippi Ethics Commission has sided with the Greenwood Commonwealth newspaper and says the state Department of Education should hand over documents from any probe of possible cheating on achievement tests in Leflore County. In a non-binding opinion issued last Friday, the Ethics Commission agreed with the newspaper that such documents are public [...]

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