Co-owner of Biloxi Shuckers suing team president
Tim Bennett, a co-owner of the Biloxi Shuckers Minor League baseball team, is suing the president of the Shuckers organization for non-payment of money owed, citing racial discrimination as…
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SHRS retirees given go-ahead in pension lawsuits
Circuit Court Judge Forest Johnson cleared the way for retirees to head to court over the Singing River pension plan. The lawsuits began when Singing River Hospital announced in…
Mississippi sues Favre, wrestlers, over welfare misspending
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Human Services on Monday sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and three former pro wrestlers along with several other people and businesses to try to recover millions of…
MS Aquarium sued by former employee claiming wrongful termination
The Mississippi Aquarium is being sued by a former employee who claims wrongful termination after reporting sexual misconduct. According to our media partner the Sun Herald, Kegan…
Mississippi Attorney General files suit against vaccine mandate
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has joined two other attorney generals in filing a lawsuit to stop President Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Governor Reeves said he…
Governor Reeves promises lawsuit fighting federal vaccine mandates
Governor Tate Reeves is speaking out against federal mandates for COVID vaccines, saying its nothing short of ‘tyranny.’ He made a post on Facebook Tuesday telling people he’s…
Lawsuits: Mississippi capital city's water harms children
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two new lawsuits claim hundreds of children have been exposed to dangerous lead levels through the drinking water in Mississippi’s capital city. Jackson has been facing water system problems for…
Lawsuit: LSU brushed off complaints against accused rapist
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana State University officials did little to address allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a French graduate student, enabling his interactions with undergraduate women and high school girls, even after learning he had been arrested…
Pier lawsuit in Biloxi rebuffed by court
A second court has rebuffed the position of Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson who had sued Biloxi and Harrison County over plans to construct a handicapped accessible public pier in West Biloxi. The pier, which would be more than…
EEOC sues Ingalls Shipbuilding, staffing company for sexual harassment, retaliation
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Staffing agency NSC Technologies, LLC assigned female employees to work at a Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. shipyard in Pascagoula, where they were subjected to a sexually hostile work environment and were retaliated against when they opposed the…
Disability advocates sue Mississippi over prison conditions
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An advocacy group for the disabled is suing Mississippi’s Department of Corrections, alleging disabled prisoners are suffering inhumane conditions at the state’s prisons. Disability Rights Mississippi filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against the department…
Mississippi Attorney General Fitch joins Google lawsuit
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined a coalition of 37 attorneys general across the U.S. to file a lawsuit against Google. The attorneys general are alleging exclusionary conduct relating…
Lawsuit filed over phrase on Mississippi license plates
Four words on Mississippi’s license plates have sparked a federal lawsuit. American Atheists, the Mississippi Humanist Association, and three non-religious state residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the…
Atheists, humanists sue over Mississippi’s license plates
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four words on Mississippi’s license plates have sparked a federal lawsuit. American Atheists, the Mississippi Humanist Association and three nonreligious state residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state over its “In God We Trust” license…
Update on lawsuit against Bonnet Carre Spillway opening
At the Biloxi Town Hall meeting today, the Mississippi Sound Coalition updated Biloxi city leaders on the litigation against the Army Corps of Engineers. After the 2019 Bonnet Carre Spillway was open twice, causing severe damage to…
Mississippi House leaders sue governor over partial vetoes
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The two top leaders of the Mississippi House are suing Gov. Tate Reeves over his partial veto of some state budget bills. This sets up a new conflict among some…
Two New Orleans universities, Roman Catholic Archdiocese named in lawsuit alleging fraud involving Katrina aid
By Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two New Orleans universities, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and a government contractor are defendants in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging fraud involving more than $100 million in Hurricane Katrina aid. The…
Lawsuit filed against two MS prisons for inadequate practices to prevent COVID-19
Today, the Mississippi Center for Justice along with the Hogan Lovells Law Firm, Attorney Mark Whitburn of Austin, Texas, and the ACLU of Mississippi filed a class action lawsuit against Mississippi’s two largest prisons for taking inadequate steps to prevent…
City of Moss Point is moving forward with water meter lawsuit
Moss Point is moving forward with its lawsuit against a water company. At the direction of Mayor Mario King, at the end of April the city filed suit against McNeil Rhoads, Chris McNeil, Mueller System, and Mueller Water Products. The…
City of Moss Point files lawsuit against water meter company
The City of Moss Point is heading back to court. This time it’s suing water meter company McNeil Rhoads, Chris McNeil, Mueller Systems, and Mueller Water Products. The city paid defendants $8.5 million to install a system that would pay…
Mississippi Attorney General prepares to sue China over COVID-19 outbreak
Today, Mississippi General Attorney Lynn Fitch announced that she is preparing to file a lawsuit against China as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak, citing malicious and dangerous acts that caused death, health injuries, and serious economic loss. The case…
Former Biloxi superintendent under lawsuit
The former superintendent of a Mississippi school district is accused in a federal lawsuit of using district funds and resources for his daughter’s wedding. Whistleblower Victoria Conway says former Biloxi Superintendent Arthur McMillan misused district money and employees. She says…
Lawsuit says Mississippi prisons are 'plagued by violence'
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than two dozen Mississippi inmates are suing the state. The lawsuit filed Tuesday says the state's understaffed prisons are “plagued by violence.” In a separate development, federal authorities on…
A look at the horizon for Biloxi in 2020
With 2019 almost under wraps, there is a lot on the horizon for the year 2020, especially in the City of Biloxi. Biloxi Mayor Andrew ‘FoFo’ Gilich stopped by the station this morning for our ‘Mayoral Monday’ segment to give…