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Friday May 16, 2:25 pm ET Parkway Properties partners with Teacher Retirement System of Texas to create investment fund JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Parkway Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, said Friday it is creating an investment fund with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas to...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Great Britain's Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, will be in Jackson May 22-23 to raise money for a mentoring program and to present medals to about 80 students. Edward will meet with the inaugural Mississippi class of recipients in the Duke of Edinburgh Award program. The...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour is calling lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session starting May 21. He wants them to keep the state employment agency in business and has three other items for lawmakers to take up. The issues were left unresolved when the 3½-month regular...
Morehouse Parish is scattered with temporary lagoons in the wake of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms Wednesday through early Thursday. The National Weather Service in Jackson, Miss. reports Morehouse Parish received a total 3.07 inches of rain between 12 a.m. Wednesday and 12 a.m. Thursday....
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Legislation to create new incentives to attract filmmakers and television productions to Mississippi has been signed by the governor. The bill, which took effect with Gov. Haley Barbour's signature on May 9, would provide a 20 percent rebate on a production's local spending...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A worker injured in a deadly paper mill explosion May 3 filed a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks $1 million plus an unspecified amount in punitive damages. Glen Rankin, 52, was injured in the blast at International Paper Co.'s Redwood plant when a boiler exploded, according to...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Five Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agents who died in the line of duty over the state drug enforcement agency's 37-year history are being honored. The ceremony Thursday at the MBN headquarters in Jackson will include a speech by Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant. Other program...
The Associated Press • May 15, 2008 HATTIESBURG — Former Forrest County Constable Tommy Jordan, who served for 20 years, has died at the age of 71. Jordan died Saturday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. His death came three weeks after the Navy veteran entered the...
JACKSON, Miss. , May 14 /PRNewswire/ — Global Security Systems (GSS) announced today that Broward and Miami-Dade Counties are the first two counties in the state of Florida to have access to ALERT FM, an FM radio-based emergency alert and messaging system.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An insurance company wants the Mississippi Supreme Court to rule out coverage for Hurricane Katrina damage caused by a combination of wind and water. San Antonio-based United Services Automobile Association says only damage caused by water, either alone or in combination...
