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State agency continues to lose top executives

Associated Press — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:26:41 +0000

BILOXI — Another top official at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has announced he’s leaving. The Sun Herald reports Danny Guice, who had been interim director of the agency after DMR executive director Bill Walker was fired in January, announced to the staff last week he would be retiring, effective June 30. The agency [...]

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Ailing state lawmaker withdraws letter of resignation

Associated Press — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:55:13 +0000

WEST POINT — Mississippi House officials say ailing Democratic Rep. David Gibbs of West Point remains a member of the Legislature. A letter of resignation from Gibbs was never filed with the Secretary of State’s Office, so the resignation never took effect, said Nathan Wells, chief of staff for Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn. When [...]

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Port commissioner resigns; term ran through 2015

Associated Press — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:07:16 +0000

GULFPORT — State port commissioner Frances Turnage has resigned from the five-member board. Commission president Jim Simpson tells the Sun Herald that Turnage emailed late Friday about her resignation. Simpson says she has retired from Mississippi Power and intends to relocate to be nearer her grandchildren. She will no longer be living in Harrison County. [...]

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Daughter announces resignation of supervisor due to health

Associated Press — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:49:26 +0000

JACKSON — Hinds County Supervisor Doug Anderson is resigning after some fellow supervisors questioned if he was too ill to continue serving. Anderson, a supervisor since 1993, will step down Jan. 1. His resignation was announced by his daughter, Jackie Anderson, at a press conference that her father didn’t attend. Doug Anderson suffers from diabetes [...]

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Legislator resigns, fined for steering contracts to family

Associated Press — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:57:35 +0000

BRANDON — A five-year Mississippi House member has resigned and agreed to pay a $10,000 fine to resolve an ethics case the state brought against him over public contracts that went to his family’s printing company — a fraction of the amount he originally was ordered to pay. Republican Rep. Kevin McGee, 42, of Brandon, [...]

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Allee resigning as director of State Port as scrutiny continues

Associated Press — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:22:47 +0000

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 [...]

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City administrator resigns after ‘heated discussion’ with councilman

Associated Press — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:25:41 +0000

LAUREL — Laurel administrator Dennis Keveryn has resigned in aftermath of a verbal altercation with Ward 7 Councilman Trey Chinn during a council work session. Keveryn’s resignation was effective Friday. Keveryn told the Hattiesburg American that the “heated discussion” led to a week’s suspension without pay from Mayor Melvin Mack. Keveryn, who had spent the [...]

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Sen. Flowers to resign from Legislature to spend time with family

Associated Press — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:28:07 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — Republican Merle Flowers of Southaven says he is resigning from the Mississippi Senate to spend more time with his wife and their four children. The 43-year-old Flowers said today that he would step down as of July 11. His District 19 is entirely inside DeSoto County. Flowers has been in the Senate since [...]

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