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Biloxi council OKs $21 million loan to build minor league baseball stadium

Frank Brown — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:33:41 +0000

The Biloxi City Council took another giant step Tuesday in an effort to attract a minor league baseball team to the city by passing a resolution to borrow $21 million to help fund construction of a $35 million stadium. The stadium will be built on U.S. 90, on land leased from the Beau Rivage Resort [...]

FAA fiscal ’14 budget would keep threatened Mississippi air control towers open

Ted Carter — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:17:26 +0000

The Federal Aviation Administration’s budget for fiscal 2014 assumes an end to the federal fiscal sequester and proposes including money to keep open 149 contract air traffic control towers around the country, including five in Mississippi, previously targeted for loss of FAA funding. The tower funding is proposed to continue under the FAA’s fiscal 2014 [...]

Pinnacle resolves FTC complaint in purchase of Ameristar Casinos

Frank Brown — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:14:04 +0000

The sale of Ameristar Casinos to Pinnacle Entertainment is ready to move forward after Pinnacle said it has reached a tentative agreement on a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission. The sale includes Ameristar in Vicksburg, which employs 800 at its 72,210-square-foot casino and hotel. In addition to Vicksburg, Ameristar owns and operates casino facilities in St. [...]

Fail State: MSU Rebels shirt making the rounds at Omaha

Stephen McDill — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:16:25 +0000

GulfLive.com is reporting that a College World Series t-shirt for sale in Omaha reads “Mississippi State Rebels.” Apparently, a huge blunder by one T-shirt distributor has gone viral on the Internet after a photo of one of the shirts was taken. The Mississippi State mascot is the Bulldogs. The Rebels name belongs to the University of [...]

State lawmaker calls federal online-gaming legislation positive

Frank Brown — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:00:56 +0000

The introduction of federal legislation to regulate Internet gambling could bring a calm to the patchwork of state laws that appear inevitable — or it could split the gaming lobby, leaving it up to states to write their own online gaming laws. “I think that’s a positive,” said state Rep. Bobby Moak, D-Bogue Chitto, who [...]

(VIDEO) Highlights from Mississippi Day in NYC Central Park

Stephen McDill — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:23:55 +0000

In case you missed it… Reporter David Folk Thomas with Newsbeat New York has posted highlights of the always popular Mississippi Day in New York City’s Central Park. The video posted here includes plenty of sweet tea, caramel cake, and 500 pounds of deep-fried Southern-style catfish. Madison native Liz Davis, a finalist in last year’s [...]

Black bear sightings up in Mississippi, especially on coast

Frank Brown — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:16:49 +0000

JACKSON, Mississippi — Wildlife officials say coastal Mississippi is seeing higher than normal black bear activity this year and residents should remove attractants if one’s spotted in a residential area. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks says black bears mainly eat foods like berries, acorns, grasses and insects. They’re also attracted to open [...]

Ameristar-Pinnacle deal slowed by FTC issues in Missouri, Louisiana

Frank Brown — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:23:06 +0000

A complaint by the Federal Trade Commission has slowed Pinnacle Entertainment’s attempt to purchase Ameristar Casinos, which includes Vicksburg’s largest casino. The stockholders of Las Vegas-based Ameristar Casinos Inc. on April 25 approved the company’s planned acquisition by Pinnacle Entertainment, which had been disclosed in December. But Pinnacle is believed to be in talks with [...]

Casinos ban gamblers from using Google Glass

Frank Brown — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:08:34 +0000

Casinos in Mississippi, New Jersey and Nevada are among those forbidding gamblers from wearing Google Glass, the tiny eyeglasses-mounted device capable of shooting photos, filming video and surfing the Internet. Regulators say the devices could be used to cheat at card games. “Any cheating device is illegal,” said Allen Godfrey of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. [...]

New York Times gives readers a 36-hour visit to Jackson

Ted Carter — Thu, 30 May 2013 22:58:27 +0000

When movie crews descended on Jackson in 2010 to film “The Help,” based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel about the city’s maids in the 1960s, they transformed the streets of its trendiest neighborhood into a retro backdrop. Given locals’ loyalty to mom-and-pop stores like Brent’s Drugs, where you can still sit at the counter and order [...]