Tag: Mississippi

08 OCT

Hurricane Nate makes landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River as a Category 1 storm

Reuters/Jonathan Bachman NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Nate came ashore at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Saturday and pelted the central Gulf Coast with wind and rain as the fast-moving storm steamed toward the Mississippi coast, where it was expected to make another landfall and threatened to inundate homes and businesses in vulnerable […]

10 SEP

Never-ending fumble leaves Louisiana Tech with third-down-and-93 to go against Mississippi State

@HailStateFB/Twitter Louisiana Tech had a tough Saturday. Down 57-14 to Mississippi State in the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs were in the red zone looking to make the final box score a bit less of a blowout. Then, a wild snap on second and goal sent the ball over quarterback J’Mar Smith’s head, leading to a fumble that […]

05 AUG

Nissan Mississippi workers vote heavily against unionization

Workers at Nissan Motor Co Ltd’s plant in Canton, Mississippi, voted nearly two to one against union representation, the company and the United Auto Workers said late on Friday. The vote at the end of a bitterly contested campaign extended a decades-long record of failure by the union to organize a major automaker’s plant in […]

05 AUG

In Another Setback For The Left, Mississippi Auto Workers Have Voted Against Unionizing

In a closely-watched organizing drive in the South, blue-collar auto workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, voted against unionizing this week, with more than 60% of the factory’s roughly 3,500 workers casting ‘no’ ballots. The vote is the latest in a series of losses for the United Auto Workers, one of the country’s […]

27 JUL

Mississippi cop shoots & kills man while serving warrant at wrong house

The family of a man fatally shot by a Southaven police officer dispute the police claim that the man was pointing a gun at law enforcement. Officers had been attempting to serve an arrest warrant at the wrong house. Ismael Lopez, 41, and his wife, Claudia Linares, were asleep when they were woken by Southaven […]

11 JUL

16 killed in military C-130 plane crash in Mississippi

Published time: 11 Jul, 2017 02:51 Edited time: 11 Jul, 2017 03:17 At least 16 people have died after a military flight crashed along Mississippi’s Sunflower-LeFlore County line, according to LeFlore County EMA Director Fred Randal. Details of the cause of the C-130 plane crash are being investigated. The US Marine Corps tweeted Monday that […]

08 MAR

Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?

Angus Deaton studies the grand questions not just of economics but of life. What makes people happy? How should we measure well-being? Should countries give foreign aid? What can and should experiments do? Is inequality increasing or decreasing? Is the world getting better or worse? Better, he believes, truly better. But not everywhere or for […]