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Kemper County Newswire (Page 3)

Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for Kemper County, MS. (Page 3)

Results 41 - 60 of 665 in Kemper County, MS

  1. Reports: UA basketball player among 3 more arrested in connection to MS. kidnappingRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Jun 4 | WSFA-TV Montgomery

    ... to commit kidnapping. The child at the center of the case, 6-year-old Jashayla Hopson, was taken from a Kemper County, Mississippi elementary school. The child was later found after being abandoned by the suspects when she was told to get out of the ...

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  2. Alabama basketball's Devonta Pollard arrested, charged with...Read the original story

    Tuesday Jun 4 | Alabama Live

    ... -- According to WTOK-TV in Meridian, Miss. , Alabama basketball player Devonta Pollard was arrested Tuesday in Kemper County, Miss., and charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Pollard, a rising sophomore, was one of three additional people ...

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  3. Three More Charged in School Kidnapping CaseRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Jun 4 | WTOK-TV Meridian

    Three more people have been charged in connection with the kidnapping of Jashayla Hopson in Kemper County, including Univ.

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  4. U. of Alabama basketball star charged with mom in Kemper County kidnappingRead the original story

    Tuesday Jun 4 | The Clarion-Ledger

    University of Alabama basketball forward Devonta Pollard has been charged for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a Kemper County elementary-schooler that authorities say his mother orchestrated.

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  5. PSC member slams Miss. PowerRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Jun 4 | The Clarion-Ledger

    Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley on Monday blasted Mississippi Power's embattled and over-budget Kemper County coal plant, but noted the $4.3 billion project is "past the point of no return" and "too big to fail."

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  6. Lauderdale County Jail OverflowingRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Jun 3 | WTOK-TV Meridian

    Sollie told the board of supervisors Monday that over the past few weeks Kemper County Sheriff James Moore has agreed to take some of the extra inmates off his hands.

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  7. Miss. PSC monitor skeptical of May 2014 completion date for Ratcliffe IGCC projectRead the original story

    Wednesday May 29 | SNL Financial

    Based on the April report on Ratcliffe by Burns and Roe Enterprises Inc., the independent monitoring firm for the Mississippi Public Service Commission, more workers and materials are required to fabricate and install piping for the integrated gasification combined-cycle generation project in Kemper County, Miss.

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  8. Gallery: New Mississippi Power CEO faces tough questionsRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday May 29 | Sunherald.com

    ROGELIO SOLIS/ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this Nov. 13, 2012 photograph workers vehicles fill the parking lots at Mississippi Power's Kemper County energy facility near DeKalb, Miss.

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  9. New Mississippi Power CEO faces tough questionsRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday May 29 | Sunherald.com

    ROGELIO SOLIS/ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this Nov. 13, 2012 photograph workers vehicles fill the parking lots at Mississippi Power's Kemper County energy facility near DeKalb, Miss.

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  10. Gary Smith: Will ratepayers share in Kemper profits?Read the original story

    Sunday May 26 | Sunherald.com

    As your readers know, our Public Service Commission recently granted Mississippi Power a rate increase to help pay for the power plant in Kemper County.

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  11. Sun Herald | Editorial: Facts about Kemper plant should be fully disclosedRead the original story

    Saturday May 25 | Sunherald.com

    The unfolding story about Mississippi Power Company's reporting of cost overruns at the company's multibillion-dollar power plant in Kemper County to the Mississippi Public Service Commission is both sobering and serious.

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  12. PSC's Mississippi Power probe continues as regulators mull next moveRead the original story

    Friday May 24 | Mississippi Business Journal

    ... for the operations of Mississippi Power, including the overseeing the continued construction of the Kemper County energy facility," said a company press release. Day's departure came about a week after the PSC learned that he had ordered that ...

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  13. Sound Off for May 25Read the original story

    Friday May 24 | Sunherald.com

    ... of the plant. He tells of jobs, taxes paid and providing cheap electricity for decades into the future for Kemper County. Who is going to pay higher rate for electricity? "The Coast." I recently visited Israel. The Jordan boarder with Israel is ...

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  14. Southern Co. CEO defends Kemper County power project in MississippiRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday May 22 | Sunherald.com

    ... large utility. Southern Co. has absorbed the unexpected charges of building Plant Ratcliffe in Mississippi's Kemper County, a showcase facility designed to capture much of the carbon dioxide produced while burning local coal to make electricity. The ...

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  15. Southern Co. CEO defends Miss. power projectRead the original story

    Wednesday May 22 | WTVC

    ... swallow." Still, Fanning told an annual meeting of shareholders that the coal-burning plant in Mississippi's Kemper County makes business sense. It's designed to produce electricity while capturing and storing carbon dioxide, a gas blamed for global ...

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  16. Kemper overruns claim Miss. Power's presidentRead the original story

    Tuesday May 21 | Newms360.com

    JACKSON, Miss. - Ed Day said his main job as president of Mississippi Power Co. was to successfully complete the company's Kemper County power plant.

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  17. Southern Co. CEO Defends Kemper PlantRead the original story

    Wednesday May 22 | WTOK-TV Meridian

    ... Still, Fanning told an annual meeting of shareholders that the lignite coal-burning plant in Mississippi's Kemper County still makes business sense. The president of Southern Co. subsidiary Mississippi Power, Ed Day, abruptly retired this week and ...

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  18. Sierra Club, NAACP call for answers from MS PowerRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday May 22 | WLOX-TV Biloxi

    WLOX News first reported Monday that the Mississippi Public Service Commission is reviewing Mississippi Power's financial records for 2012, after learning the company withheld information about the Kemper County power plant.

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  19. Regulator: Day's departure due to his withholding Kemper informationRead the original story

    Wednesday May 22 | Mississippi Business Journal

    ... "responsible for the operations of Mississippi Power, including overseeing the continued construction of the Kemper County energy facility," said a company press release. Southern Co. gave no reason for Day's departure, but it comes about a week ...

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  20. Mississippi Power Co. withheld information, Bentz saysRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday May 20 | Sunherald.com

    ... the issues started last May when Mississippi Power acknowledged the cost of the power plant it is building in Kemper County was $366 million over estimates. "We had been asking for a timeline from Mississippi Power Co. about when they knew the cost ...

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