COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - Lowndes County's leading economic development official says the Silicor Materials project is dead.
Golden Triangle Development Link CEO Joe Max Higgins tells WCBI-TV in Columbus that the company missed its deadline to put up $150,000 to secure land and incentives. Higgins says the money was refundable to ensure that they
...KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A contract worker for the Knoxville Utilities Board has died after receiving an electrical shock.
According to The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/WkfV7t ), the man worked for W&O Construction Company of Livingston. Knoxville police said the man was standing under electrical wires at a water treatment plant near
...OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A monthly economic index for nine Midwest and Plains states rose again last month but still suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months.
The Mid-America Business Conditions index hit 49.5 in December, up from November's 48.0 and October's 46.5.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the
...JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Officials say at least 10 people died and more than two dozen were injured on Mississippi roads over the extended New Year's holiday.
Among the fatalities was 29-year-old Megan L. Watkins of Raymond, whose SUV ran off Mississippi 467 in Hinds County and struck a tree before slamming into a house.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol
...HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - A Forrest County grand jury has indicted a Hattiesburg business owner on a touching of a child for lustful purposes charge.
The Hattiesburg American reports (http://hatne.ws/XhuD54) 49-year-old Curtis James Johnson was served his indictment in December after the grand jury returned it in November.
The alleged incident took
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