Attorney pleads in Scruggs case
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A Mississippi attorney was arraigned Tuesday in federal court on charges he conspired with high-profile tort lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and three others to bribe a state judge.
A Mississippi attorney was arraigned Tuesday in federal court on charges he conspired with high-profile tort lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and three others to bribe a state judge.
Flood insurance rates on homes damaged more than 50 percent during Hurricane Katrina could skyrocket, or the homes will have to be elevated, once the new flood elevations are adopted by the Biloxi City Council.
Comment on this story Photo Gallery AvailableState Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a landmark $1 million punitive damages award to a Mississippi couple who sued the insurer for refusing to cover Hurricane Katrina damage to their home.
The federal housing agency is encountering issues it hadn't expected in the transfer of a rental assistance program for hurricane victims from FEMA.
A Dec. 15 fundraiser at the Oxford home of attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, featuring former President Clinton, has been canceled, a campaign official said Thursday.
Herbert Saffir visited the Mississippi Coast after Hurricane Katrina at the invitation of Gulfport attorney Joe Sam Owen, who represents policyholders in their lawsuits against insurance companies.
Although $126 billion in federal aid is projected to reach the Gulf Coast following the 2005 hurricanes, about 40 percent - $51 billion - is going toward rebuilding, a new report states, suggesting the need for continued aid in the slowly recovering region.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has asked companies to re-submit bids to oversee the Katrina cottages pilot program.
Lawyers for a group of hurricane victims living in government-issued trailers are asking a federal judge to order FEMA to test the housing units for hazardous fumes.
What will $229,000 cover in the Mississippi real estate market?
Groundbreaking on a long-delayed project that will erect the first of more than 530 alternative residential units for hurricane victims likely won't meet the Nov. 30 deadline set by Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Orleans Parish Civil District Court alleges New Orleans and a landfill operator dumped a huge amount of debris on land neither owns.
Federal requirements have prevented some pre-Katrina homeowners from receiving government grants to help rebuild, but a major hurdle has been partially cleared for at least 186 residents previously denied the money.
Susan Anderson watched her recovery money dwindle as she tried to keep herself and her son, Tyler, afloat after Hurricane Katrina.
Before Hurricane Katrina, Susan Anderson and her 10-year-old son, Tyler, evacuated from Arbor View Apartment Homes with their most treasured possessions, including photographs of Tyler from infancy to boyhood.
Property insurance for commercial buildings is once again available and more affordable through the private market, said Coast businessmen who hope to see development pick up as a result.
Pascagoula physician Bob Donald is the first Mississippian to begin building a home that conforms to a new program's specifications, and qualifies for new insurance discounts.
Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, became an emergency meeting point one cold winter day last December after an explosion at the nearby Falk Corp. factory.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he did not threaten to indict the chairman of State Farm Insurance Cos. if the insurer didn't settle lawsuits over thousands of Hurricane Katrina claims, contradicting the testimony of Lee Harrell, the state's deputy commissioner of insurance.
Alan Goodyear and Glen Ridgeway sat under the tattered shelter outside Goodyear's FEMA trailer earlier this week, waiting.
FEMA is barring employees from entering thousands of stored travel trailers over concerns about hazardous fumes, even as more than 48,000 other trailers are being lived in by hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping plan Thursday to create a federal natural-disaster program, responding to a clamor from Florida lawmakers over the skyrocketing cost of homeowner insurance.
Based on appeals court rulings, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said Tuesday insurance companies have paid millions they did not owe for Hurricane Katrina damage.
Numerous recent national and regional media reports and opinions stop just short of saying Mississippi has stolen federal Katrina-recovery dollars from Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS - It's more carpentry, painting and house-gutting - along with more cerebral work - for college students hitting the Gulf Coast for another spring break amid the devastation from the 2005 hurricanes, Katrina and Rita.
An Illinois woman mourns her two young daughters, swept to their deaths in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. It's a tragic and terrifying story. It's also a lie. An Alabama woman applies for disaster aid for hurricane damage. She files 28 claims for addresses in four states. It's all a sham. Two California men help stage Internet auctions designed to help Katrina relief organizations. Those, too, are bogus.
Last weekend I wrote about a volunteer organization that restores photos damaged in natural disasters.
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