Tag: Mississippi

The Marine Corps said Friday that all its aircraft units are required to halt flights for 24 hours and have a refresher course on safe operations following two deadly crashes this summer. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

National Security

Marines to ground all aircraft for 24 hours after deadly crashes

Travis J. Tritten · August 11, 2017 7:01 pm

Utility giant Southern Co. is being sued by a company engineer who says the company misled shareholders and may have violated federal law about the safety and timeline for opening an advanced clean coal power plant in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Energy and Environment

Clean coal utility giant sued over claims it misled investors

John Siciliano · August 9, 2017 4:26 pm

In a closely watched vote, Nissan workers at a Canton, Miss., plant rejected the United Auto Workers by a 2-to-1 margin in an organizing vote concluded late Friday, dealing a major blow to the union's hopes to make inroads in the south. The vote was 2,244 to 1,307. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Nissan workers reject union by nearly a 2-1 margin

Sean Higgins · August 5, 2017 1:23 pm

Rocketdyne claims the move to Huntsville is motivated by the lesser regulatory and tax burden in Mississippi and Alabama vs. California. But it's also a fact that the move will benefit the constituencies of Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama (pictured) and Thad Cochran of Mississippi.

Rocketdyne moves to the South, and ‘pull’ is its reason

Eric Peters · August 4, 2017 4:01 am

"This could go down as one of the most vicious, and illegal, anti-union crusades in decades," Vermont independent says. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Bernie Sanders attacks Nissan over union campaign

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2017 9:20 pm

In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, a UAW member holds up a flyer to be given to Nissan workers as they leave the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Miss. Union members met most shifts arriving and leaving waving posters, flyers and singing union chants at each of the plant's employee entrances. In voting that begins early Thursday, Aug. 3, some 3,700 direct employees at Nissan Motor Co.'s car and truck assembly plant in Canton will decide whether they want a union. The polls close at 7 p.m., local time on Friday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Nissan plant vote a crucial test for unions

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2017 4:01 am

Workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., are set to vote on unionization this week, beginning Aug. 3. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The French are sold on the UAW; Mississippi auto workers maybe not so much

Steven Allen · August 2, 2017 4:01 am

Fifteen Marines and a Navy sailor killed in the plane crash earlier this week in Mississippi. (Elijah Baylis/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

Marines release tribute video for 16 killed in KC-130 crash: WATCH

Sean Langille · July 14, 2017 7:24 pm

UAW demands union vote at Mississippi Nissan plant

Sean Higgins · July 10, 2017 10:53 pm

Southern Company has spent seven years and nearly $8 billion to build the coal gasification plant, which had initially been projected to cost just $3 billion in 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Energy and Environment

Clean coal power plant ordered to run on natural gas

John Siciliano · June 22, 2017 4:42 pm

Strain said charges have not yet been filed against the suspect, who was arrested in Brookhaven, and that it would be "premature" to discuss a motive. (Therese Ape/The Clarion-Ledger)

Police say 8 dead in 3 Mississippi shootings

Associated Press · May 28, 2017 3:32 pm

Two other states list the gas as an executive method, but it's never been used on an inmate. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Alabama Senate advances bill to use nitrogen gas in executions

Anna Giaritelli · April 19, 2017 12:16 am