by Associated Press Published: April 23,2013
Tags: beach, executive, fired, marine, resign, resignation, resources, retire, retirement, senior management, state agency, terminate, termination, wetlands
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 11,2013
Tags: elected official, health, lawmaker, politician, Politics, public official, representative, resign, resignation, state government
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 19,2012
Tags: commission, commissioner, election, export, exporter, exporting, import, importer, importing, port, relocate, resign, resignation, retire, retirement, ship, shipper, shipping, transportation
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. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 14,2012
Tags: board of supervisors, county, elected official, government, health, politician, public official, resign, resignation, stroke, supervisor
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 20,2012
Tags: bill, contract, elected official, election, ethical, ethics, fine, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, penalty, Politics, public, public official, resign, resignation, unethical
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, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: director, disaster, disaster recovery, dredge, dredging, executive, port, resign, resignation, transportation
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 17,2012
Tags: election, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, Legislature, Politics, resignation, special election, vacancy, vote, voter, Voting
DESOTO COUNTY — Gov. Phil Bryant says the election to fill a state Senate seat left vacant by the resignation of Merle Flowers will be held during the Nov. 6 elections. Bryant says in a news release holding the election for Mississippi Senate District 19 in DeSoto County on that day will save the cost [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 25,2012
Tags: bills, elected officials, electiondss voting, lawmakers, laws, legislative, Legislature, Politics, public officials, resign, resignation, resigning, state government, voters
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 15,2012
Tags: education, educators, elementary education, elementary schools, high schools, junior high schools, public education, public schools, resignation, resigning, school boards, school districts, schools, secondary education, superintendent
GREENVILLE — Harvey Franklin Sr., superintendent of the Greenville Public School District, has resigned. The Delta Democrat Times reports the school board accepted the resignation during an emergency meeting today. Franklin’s resignation is effective immediately Deputy superintendent Leeson Taylor II has been named “acting interim superintendent” until June 30, the end of the district’s fiscal [...] [...]
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