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City taking mental health clinic fight to high court

Associated Press — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:29:57 +0000

OCEAN SPRINGS — The city of Ocean Springs is taking a fight over a location for a mental health clinic to the Mississippi Supreme Court. Jackson County Circuit Judge Robert Krebs ruled Dec. 21 that the city erred in denying a use permit to the Psycamore mental health clinic. The Mississippi Press reports the board [...]

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Report: City dumping billions of gallons of sewage into river

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:44:45 +0000

JACKSON — The city of Jackson released more than 2.8 billion gallons of minimally treated sewage — enough to fill four NFL stadiums — into the Pearl River system over the last four years, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Analysis of reports filed with the state Department of Environmental Quality indicate that Jackson bypassed treatment [...]

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Pickering revises amount owed by Davis on credit card charges

Associated Press — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:05:49 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — The office of Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering is revising the amount that Southaven Mayor Greg Davis must repay to taxpayers after aldermen determined that about $6,000 in charges to the mayor’s city-issued credit card were not city-related expenses. “We didn’t have enough documentation to justify approximately $6,000 as city expenses,” Aldermen Ronnie Hale [...]

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Embattled mayor surrenders to authorities, charged with passing school bus

Associated Press — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:39:47 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — Southaven Mayor Greg Davis has surrendered to authorities after he was charged with passing a school bus in a private vehicle that displayed blue police-type lights. The Commercial Appeal reports the misdemeanor charge, stemming from an incident last week. The embattled mayor was already the target of state auditors and the FBI investigating [...]

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Aldermen quiet on outcome of closed-door meeting about Davis’ credit card

Associated Press — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:23:53 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — The Southaven Board of Aldermen unanimously voted to take action on the state auditor’s request that they review Mayor Greg Davis’ city-issued credit card. But only the dozen or so people in a two-hour closed-door meeting know exactly what that action was because city officials refused to release any information on the matter. [...]

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Report: Davis used campaign funds for car, treatment, credit card payments

Associated Press — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:33:08 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — Southaven Mayor Greg Davis used campaign money for a $30,000 car, treatment at an Arizona stress clinic and $75,000 in personal credit card payments. The spending, legal in Mississippi, showed up in campaign finance reports, The Commercial Appeal said. Nothing in Mississippi law forbids personal use of campaign money — a loophole that [...]

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After nearly seven years, wastewater treatment plant opens

Associated Press — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:37:49 +0000

POPLARVILLE — After six and a half years of work, Pearl River County now has two state-of-the-art computerized wastewater treatment facilities up and running. The Picayune Item reports plants were opened late last week with members of the county Utility Authority board and officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality in attendance. Both sewage [...]

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