by Associated Press Published: April 29,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, bankrupt, bankruptcy, board of supervisors, buy, county, county government, distribution, port, sale, sell, supervisor, warehouse
NATCHEZ — Adams County has agreed to buy a 450,000-square-foot warehouse at the Natchez-Adams County Port. County board of supervisors President Darryl Grennell says the warehouse will help economic development in the area. The warehouse on the Mississippi River houses products loaded on and unloaded off barges. The port has operated the warehouse for Valley [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 28,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, governor, health, healthcare, hospital, hospital sale, legislation, public health, sell, state government, state law
GRENADA — Legislation that would allow the University of Mississippi Medical Center to take over a hospital in Grenada has been signed into law. Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1721. It takes effect immediately. Grenada County has been shopping around the county-owned Grenada Lake Medical Center since last summer. The bill would allow the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 24,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, alternative fuel, board of supervisors, buy, county government, environment, fuel, green, industrial real estate, land, property, real estate, sale, sell, supervisor
NATCHEZ — Adams County officials are continuing talks on buying the former International Paper site from Rentech. The Natchez Democrat reports supervisors met Monday and board attorney Scott Slover said no decision has been made. The IP mill was once home to the area’s biggest employer but was shuttered in 2003. Rentech purchased the property [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 17,2013
Tags: audit, auditing, auditor, boats, foundation, ownership, sale, sell, state agency, tax, taxpayer
BILOXI — State Auditor Stacey Pickering has met with Mississippi Department of Marine Resource Foundation board members concerning boats owned by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR). The board agreed to meet within the next seven to 10 days to discuss transferring ownership of two boats that were being leased from the DMR Foundation [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 16,2013
Tags: budget, cooperative, electricity, energy, executive, federal government, lawmaker, legislative, lights, Politics, power, President, sale, sell, utility
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — In a political role reversal, Republicans are blasting President Barack Obama’s plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority, an icon of the New Deal long targeted by conservatives as an example of government overreach. Obama’s 2014 budget proposal calls for a strategic review of the TVA, the nation’s largest public utility [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 10,2013
Tags: acquisition, auction, author, buy, heirlooms, literary, novelist, papers, purchase, sale, sell, short story, writer
OXFORD — It’s a literary treasure trove. William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Legion d’Honneur medal presented to him by France in 1951. Faulkner’s Nobel handwritten acceptance speech draft. All in an estate package that includes 26 letters and postcards sent by Faulkner, 25 leather-bound columns of the author’s work and manuscripts of [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 10,2013
Tags: acquisition, attorney, bank, banker, banking, bench, class action, court, finance, financial institution, judge, justice, law, law firm, lawsuit, lawyer, legal, merger, purchase, sale, sell
KOSCIUSKO and TUPELO — Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, LLP of San Diego has started a class action, through an amended complaint filed on April 8 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of all holders of First M&F Corporation (FMFC) common stock as of Feb. 7, 2013, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2013
Tags: alternative fuel, energy, fuel, land, plant, property, real estate, REFINERY, sale, sell, site
NATCHEZ — Rentech is asking $8.5 million for the 478 acres in Adams County where it once planned to build an alternative fuels plant to convert coal into liquid. Natchez real estate broker Glenn Green, one of the three listed on the property, tells the Natchez Democrat there has been some offers on the property [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2013
Tags: auction, bankrupt, bankruptcy, casino, Commercial Real Estate, gamble, gambler, gaming, sale, sell, trustee
VICKSBURG — The trustee in the bankruptcy liquidation case of a closed Vicksburg casino boat will auction off the vessel and some its inventory on April 25. The Vicksburg Post reports a court hearing for creditors of the former Grand Station Casino will be heard again May 3. In March, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Neil P. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
Tags: ale, board of supervisors, Commercial Real Estate, county government, health, health care, hospital, inverstment, law, medical, medicine, real estate, sell, state government, supervisor
COLUMBUS — Lowndes County will have more flexibility to invest funds from the sale of a local hospital under a bill signed by Gov. Phil Bryant. The Commercial Dispatch reports the county had invested the $30 million it received from the 2001 sale of the county hospital in a certificate of deposit. The 5.2 percent [...] [...]
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