by Associated Press Published: February 2,2012
Tags: appeal, bench, courts, damages, death, health, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, product liability, sandblasting, silica, tort, worker
JACKSON — Mississippi Valley Silica Co. has argued that a trial judge’s rulings prevented it from presenting an adequate defense of a damage lawsuit.
The company yesterday asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to throw out the $7.6 million award to the family of Robert Eastman. Eastman claimed he sustained irreparable lung damage from silicosis caused by [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — A 66-year-old Pascagoula man died in an industrial accident at VT Halter Marine.
Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus tells The Mississippi Press Lee Thibodeaux died yesterday of blunt force trauma to the upper body.
At about 11 a.m., Pascagoula police responded to the accident at the shipyard. Authorities say the accident involved sandblasting equipment.
Bill Skinner, [...] [...]
JACKSON — U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr., appointed to the bench in 1999 by President Bill Clinton, died yesterday.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Pepper died about 3:45 p.m. after a heart attack at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Jackson. He was 70 years old. A spokeswoman for the Northern District of Mississippi’s federal [...] [...]
JACKSON — U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr., appointed to the bench in 1999 by President Bill Clinton, died yesterday.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Pepper died about 3:45 p.m. after a heart attack at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Jackson. He was 70 years old. A spokeswoman for the Northern District of Mississippi’s federal [...] [...]
JACKSON — Authorities said a prominent Jackson businessman took his own life yesterday, days after his wife was released from prison by then-Gov. Haley Barbour.
Jackson Police spokeswoman Colendula Green told The Associated Press that emergency officials were called to Stuart M. Irby’s home shortly after 8 p.m. and he was pronounced dead at 9:04 p.m.
She [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 11,2012
Tags: colleges, death, education, health, healthcare, higher education, hospitals, medicine, obituary, universities
JACKSON — Dr. A. Wallace Conerly, vice chancellor emeritus for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and dean emeritus of the School of Medicine, died yesterday in the UMMC hospital that bears his name. He was 76.
Conerly, who served as vice chancellor from 1994-2003, had been hospitalized early yesterday at the Wallace [...] [...]
RIPLEY — The body of Ripley Mayor Kerry W. Hill was found yesterday at his residence. He was 75.
Police Chief Scott White says there were no signs of foul play. White says Hill’s son, Brad, had been unable to reach Hill by phone, went by his father’s apartment and found his body.
Alderman Bonnie Caviness will [...] [...]
VICKSBURG — Williams Funeral Home in Vicksburg has been notified to cease and desist from selling funeral pre-need goods and services to the public and to pay $13,000 in fines to the State of Mississippi in a final order issued by Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann.
In 2008, Williams was ordered to cease and desist from [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 13,2011
Tags: authors, coleges, death, education, higher education, jounalism, jounalists, media, newspapers, novelist, novels, obituary, sports, universities, writers
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Texas author Jay Milner, who went from being a football star to a coach to a journalist, novelist and teacher whose contemporaries included David Halberstam and Larry McMurtry, has died in Fort Worth, Taxas. He was 88.
Milner’s robust career brought him to Dallas in 1969, when Southern Methodist University hired him [...] [...]
NEW ALBANY — Former state Sen. Walter A. “Pud” Graham has died. He was 75.
Graham died at his home in New Albany Saturday after being in the hospital the previous week, undergoing a medical procedure.
Officials with United Funeral Service said services would be held today at Ingomar Baptist Church in New Albany with burial in [...] [...]
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