A judge has scheduled a hearing Nov. 16 on whether Greenwood police can analyze medicine taken from a 41-year-old attorney’s purse after a wreck. A lawsuit says it was taken unconstitutionally without permission or a warrant, and a judge has …
Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney won re-election in Tuesday’s voting in Mississippi. Chaney, a Republican from Vicksburg, defeated Democrat Louis Fondren of Gautier and Reform Party candidate Barbara Dale Washer of Hattiesburg. Chaney, 67, was first elected commissioner in 2007. He’d …
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is developing a new multi-campus hazard mitigation plan and will be seeking public comment in the upcoming weeks. MGCCC disaster mitigation committee member John Shows tells The Sun Herald the college received a $100,000 grant …
The death last month of a bicycle rider in a traffic accident has led city leaders in Oxford, Miss., to take a stronger look at bicycle safety. City Planner Tim Akers told the Oxford Board of Aldermen last week that …
A valve malfunction in the plumbing system at the Hinds County Courthouse sent water cascading from ceilings. Desks in Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn’s office on the basement floor received the most damage in Thursday’s flood. But there was water in …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says farmers hit hard by bad weather in 2010 can begin applying for supplemental revenue assistance payments – known as SURE – on Nov. 14. All Mississippi counties and most Louisiana parishes were declared agricultural …
The city of Biloxi, Miss., starts this week to work with commercial property owners to clean up neglected buildings. Six years after Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi officials are ready to prod commercial property owners into doing something with their neglected buildings. …
Three DeSoto County school buses were stolen, but school system officials said Friday that the thief returned two of them. The Commercial Appeal reports the third bus was recovered by police at the corner of Jefferson and Stonewall in Olive …
Louis Fondren, a Democrat from Gautier, and Barbara Dale Washer, the Reform Party candidate from Hattiesburg, seek to dislodge incumbent Mike Chaney as Mississippi insurance commissioner. Chaney, 67, a Republican from Vicksburg, served in the state Legislature before being elected …
Bad Boy Buggies, an off-road utility vehicle company, is recalling 3,200 buggies because reports the steering arm assemblies broke during operation. Bad Boy Buggies announced Wednesday the recall of the Bad Boy LT, Classic, XT, XTO and XT Safari model …