by Associated Press Published: April 27,2012
Tags: benxch, courts, executive, governor, judges, judicial, judiciary, law, law enforcement, lawsuit, state government, state law, traffic cameras, transportation, travel
JACKSON — An Arizona company is challenging a 2009 Mississippi law that bans cameras that snap pictures of vehicles running red lights. The Clarion-Ledger reports American Traffic Solutions wants the law declared unenforceable and is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit filed in Hinds County Circuit Court against the state and Gov. Phil Bryant. The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 12,2012
Tags: coroner, county government, death, employee, fatality, federal agency, federal government, investigation, killed, law enforcement, worker, workplace safety
MOSS POINT — Officials say a maintenance worker at a Moss Point seafood plant died from blood loss. Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus tells The Sun Herald 24-year-old Christopher Hebert was caught in a conveyor at Omega Protein Monday. Broadus said he died from loss of blood related to his injuries. Moss Point police and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 11,2012
Tags: attorneys, bills, Constitution, counsel, law enforcement, lawmakers, laws, lawyhers, legislation, legislative, legislators, Legislature, state law
JACKSON — Senators still support efforts to limit Attorney General Jim Hood’s power to hire outside lawyers. The Senate amended House Bill 211 and sent it back to the House yesterday on a 35-17 vote with little debate. The Senate would limit the share of a verdict that outside lawyers could be paid as a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2012
Tags: bills, illegal immigrants, illegal workers, immigrants, immigration, law enforcement, lawmakers, laws, legislation, legislative, legislators, Legislature
JACKSON — A Mississippi House chairman today abandoned his effort to revive tougher immigration enforcement provisions that included requiring local police to report suspected illegal immigrants to federal authorities. The bill, which was killed earlier this week by a Senate chairman, now appears to be dead this legislative session. House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy [...] [...]
JACKSON — Mississippi is selling one of its two state planes for $2 million, and Gov. Phil Bryant says he wants the money to be used for 78 new Highway Patrol vehicles. Bryant’s office said yesterday he had approved the sale of the Cessna Citation V Ultra jet on Tuesday. The state still has a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 3,2012
Tags: bills, illegal immigrants, illegal workers, immigration, law, law enforcement, lawmakers, legislation, legislative, legislators, Legislature
JACKSON — An immigration-enforcement bill has died because a chairman chose not to bring it up for a vote in a Mississippi Senate committee. However, the issue might not be dead. Some House members are trying to put immigration-enforcement provisions into other bills that are still alive. It’s unclear whether those efforts will succeed. Senate [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 2,2012
Tags: executive, governor, incarceration, inmates, law enforcement, parole, parole board, prisons, sheriff, state government
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant named former Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin to lead the state Parole Board. The five-member board has discretion over which inmates are released from prison on parole. The board also investigates applicants for gubernatorial pardons and makes recommendations. However, Mississippi governors aren’t bound by the board’s recommendations. The board recommended [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 29,2012
Tags: agriculture, bill, builders, building, chambers of commerce, contractors, county government, executive, farmers, farms, foreign workers, gorwers, governor, illegal immigrants, illegal workers, immigrants, immigration, law, law enfocement, law enforcement, lawmakers, legislative, legislators, Legislature, municipal government, municipalities, police, producers, sheriff, supervisors, workers
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant said he doesn’t understand some of the opposition that’s developed to an immigration-enforcement bill, particularly from businesses that say they don’t hire illegal immigrants, anyway. “If they’re not hiring illegal immigrants I am baffled as to why they think this law would be detrimental to their work,” Bryant told reporters [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — Southaven Mayor Greg Davis will be DeSoto County Justice Court on May 2 for allegedly passing a stopped school bus. Davis went to the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department after misdemeanor warrants were issued for his arrest Tuesday. The Commercial Appeals reports Davis was freed on $1,100 bond. Steve Farese, Davis’ attorney, says a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2012
Tags: audit, auditing, auditors, clinic, credit card, entertainment, investigation, law enforcement, mayor, misappropriations, misdemeanor, municipal government, scam, SCANDAL, school bus, sex shop, taxes, taxpayers, traffic violation, treatment
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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