GULFPORT — Harrison County supervisors have voted 3-2 to deny a Gulfport business a five-year tax exemption. Board members who voted against the resolution yesterday said because it is not a new business, the county would lose money by allowing the exemption. Bill Hessell of the Harrison County Development Commission tells The Sun Herald GCP [...] [...]
GREENWOOD — The CEO of Greenwood Leflore Hospital says the medical center made a more than $3 million profit in its latest fiscal year and continues to be in strong financial shape. Jim Jackson tells the Greenwood Commonwealth the facility reinvests that money to keep its facilities and technology up to date and attract physicians [...] [...]
PHILADELPHIA — Neshoba County General Hospital has agreed to spin off its ambulance service. The Neshoba Democrat reports the ambulance service will become a separate entity under an agreement between the hospital and the county board of supervisors. “It will no longer be an extension of the emergency room as far as hospital billing is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 12,2012
Tags: county government, courts, embezzlement, judge, judicial, judiciary, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, supervisor, suspended sentence
CORINTH — A former Alcorn County supervisor has been given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to embezzlement. The Daily Corinthian reports Danny H. Crotts entered the plea in circuit court to a criminal information. A criminal information is a formal charge made without a grand jury indictment. Circuit Judge Jim Pounds sentenced Crotts to [...] [...]
LEXINGTON — Holmes County Supervisor Norman Cobbins has been indicted by a federal grand jury for mail fraud, bribery and making a false statement. U.S. Attorney John Dowdy and others said the indictment alleges that the 61-year-old Cobbins, of Lexington, from January 2002 through January 2011, carried out a scheme to defraud the county by [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 8,2012
Tags: agriculture, county government, economic devlopment, employment, food, food processing, jobs, land, maniufacturing, manufacturer, municipal government, peanuts, plant, property, sale
GREENWOOD — The city of Greenwood has joined Leflore County in agreeing to sell 30 acres in the Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Park at $5,000 per acre to a peanut processor. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports the city council acted Tuesday on the sale of 30 acres to the Clint Williams Co. of Madill, Okla. The company has [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 7,2012
Tags: agriculture, county government, economic development, food, food processing, industrial park, industrial real estate, jobs, land, peanuts, property, real estate, sale
LEFLORE COUNTY — Leflore County has agreed to sell 30 acres in the Industrial Park at $5,000 per acre to the peanut processor Clint Williams Co. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports the board of supervisors decided to use the money to pay part of Atmos Energy’s cost of installing a pipeline to the site. The company [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 6,2012
Tags: county government, economic development, facility, incentives, industrial real estate, infrastructure, manufacturing, plant, real estate, silico, state government
LOWNDES COUNTY — The state of Mississippi is offering $60 million in incentives and Lowndes County is kicking another $16 million for infrastructure improvements to support an operation that will melt gravel into silicon for everything from cosmetics to cellphones and computer screens. In return, the company, called SiliCorr, would invest $500 million in the [...] [...]
LEFLORE COUNTY — Leflore County circuit clerk Elmus Stockstill says he and Election Commission chairman Edward Course will work to address inflated voter rolls. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports data from the secretary of state’s office shows Leflore County has 4,000 more registered voters than adults living here. Data from the 2010 census shows the county’s [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 2,2012
Tags: classes, county government, demand, education, law enforcement, lawsuit, misappropriation, state agency, state government, supervisor
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood has filed suit against Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham, demanding he repay money state auditors say he earned double-dipping while on the clock at his former city job. Auditor Stacey Pickering’s office contends Graham, between 2004 and 2007 as a Jackson police spokesman and 911 dispatch supervisor, earned almost [...] [...]
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