A lawsuit filed this week seeks to block charter schools in Mississippi, arguing they violate the state constitution by making school districts share property taxes with schools they don’t control. The suit was filed in Hinds County Court on behalf…
A company is suing Mississippi Power, alleging the utility misled it into building a one million dollar pipeline. Treetop Midstream Services had planned to buy carbon dioxide from the Kemper County Plant, pumping it underground to push oil up from…
A federal judge has decided not to block Mississippi’s controversial Religious Accommodations Act. News 25’s Kendra Turley gives us a look at how both the ACLU and members of the LGBT community are handling the news. Nkyolas Alford and Stephan…
A federal judge has decided not to block Mississippi’s controversial Religious Accommodations Act. News 25’s Kendra Turley joins us with the details on how both the ACLU and members of the LGBT community are handling the news. The ACLU filed…
A fairness hearing on the Singing River health system pension settlement. For Singing River retirees, this is their last chance to avoid the class-action settlement many of them do not want. Before the hearing began, retirees gathered hands, praying for…
The City of Biloxi and the American Civil Liberties Union have settled a lawsuit claiming the city was operating a “debtor’s prison” to the amount of $75,000 and a few operational changes. Biloxi has agreed to adopt sweeping reforms to…
A federal judge is ordering attorneys to file arguments over whether courts have authority to decide if Mississippi should remove the Confederate Battle Emblem from the state flag. A March 21 deadline has been set for briefs by Attorney General…
"Take it down" was the rallying cry at the Mississippi state capitol in Jackson Tuesday. The state flag is now at the heart of a federal lawsuit. In the shadow of the state flag, a large crowd gathered on the…
Another motion requesting the removal of Judge Breland Hilburn from all the cases in the Singing River pension plan lawsuit has been filed. Harvey Barton and Earl Denham represent about 200 of the 3,100 retirees in the case. They filed…
Former Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd no longer has to pay $260,000 to a female deputy in a sexual harassment and emotional distress lawsuit.
A lawsuit against the city of Ocean Springs may be coming to a close.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action lawsuit against the city of Biloxi.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast still has a long way to go in recovering from the BP oil spill.
All parties involved with the Singing River Health System (S.R.H.S.) litigation are anxiously awaiting an answer from Special Master, Al Hopkins.
The decision was made during a hearing Tuesday where lawyers on both sides battled it out in court.
The attorneys for Psycamore Psychiatric Clinic are offering to drop their case and the remaining $400,000 the city owes.
The City of Ocean Springs has paid off its $500,000 settlement in the discrimination lawsuit with Psycamore Psychiatric Clinic.
Singing River Health System (S.R.H.S.) claims it could have overpaid retirement benefits of a former nurse who worked for the hospital for 17 years, and that she owes them money.
Friday was the deadline for school districts in Mississippi to sign up for a lawsuit against the state to recover education money owed under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (M.A.E.P.)
A Jackson County Sheriff’s Department employee is suing former Sheriff, Mike Byrd, for sexual harassment.
The deadline to sign up for the M.A.E.P. lawsuit is Friday, and the lawyers say it won't cost the districts anything unless they win, but at this point, no school district on the Coast has signed up.
Despite Representative Anderson’s continued pleas for the Moss Point School District to join the lawsuit against the State of Mississippi, the school board is saying ‘no way.’
Tuesday night, angry residents joined State Representative Jeramey Anderson at the Moss Point Board of Education meeting, demanding the district joins a lawsuit against the State of Mississippi.
Tuesday evening, many residents of Moss Point attended a school board meeting, demanding to know why the district has not signed on to multi-million dollar lawsuit against the state.
