Three pilots flying together to a federal safety conference died when their single-engine plane faltered in midair and crashed into a house that went up in flames. The three men had just taken off from Hawkins Field Airport in Jackson …
The city of Jackson, Miss., has appealed a $700,000 damage award related to an accident during a police chase in 2001 in which two women were injured and a third killed. The state Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments …
A fourth fatality in less than a year at a busy Prentiss County, Miss., intersection has prompted supervisors to ask the Mississippi Department of Transportation for a traffic review. The Daily Corinthian reports that the board of supervisors wants MDOT …
Authorities say two men have been arrested on charges of stealing thousands of dollars in copper from farm irrigation pivots in Mississippi and selling it in Arkansas. Curtis Tigues and Ernest Calvin were indicted last month in U.S. District Court …
A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to three federal crimes charging him with fraudulently obtaining more than $97,000 for a house he claimed was his primary residence when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Anthony L. Bryan was in U.S. …
Federal investigators have joined the investigation into Wednesday’s fire at a Howard Johnson Inn on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The fire burned through the roof of the three-story hotel, doing an estimated $4 million in damage. The Bureau of Alcohol, …
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has partnered with Mississippi Interactive LLC to offer a driver’s practice test application for residents with the proper phones or other hand-held computing devices. The app consists of 25 randomly generated test questions that …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved $11.1 million in grants across Mississippi for damage from Hurricane Isaac. That includes more than $9.5 million for housing assistance and $1.6 million for other needs such as personal property, damaged vehicles and …
The McComb, Miss., city board is a step closer to cleaning up the decaying debris that still lines many city streets after Hurricane Isaac. The cleanup will cost about $300,000 with the cheapest option offered. The Enterprise-Journal reports Public Works …
A federal judge has set a trial date in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth, Miss. The Daily Corinthian reports that the trial is scheduled for Feb. 24 in Aberdeen before U.S. District Glen H. Davidson. …