http://www.picayuneitem.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:33:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324103424.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324103424.html The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:23:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102436.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102436.html Clifton Whitley III has been named president and chief executive officer of the Mississippi Action for Community Education, an organization that works on minority economic developing programs in the Delta. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:21:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102306.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102306.html A new facility in Hattiesburg will bottle 350,000 cases of Pepsi and Dr Pepper products a week. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:20:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102127.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102127.html Authorities in the central Mississippi city of Pearl say they’ve arrested an Arizona woman after allegedly discovering grenades and several assault rifles in a vehicle she was driving. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:18:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102024.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324102024.html A solar design and installation company says it has put in service the largest solar electric system of its kind in the state. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:16:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324101803.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324101803.html James Arnold Flowers isn’t sure how he survived the hellish trek through the Philippines, passing the corpses of fallen comrades and beset by atrocities so extreme that it became known as the Bataan Death March. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:15:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324101631.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324101631.html Most of the attention in Gov. Haley Barbour’s budget proposal has been focused on his plans to merge universities, consolidate school districts and close mental health centers. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:13:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324101451.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_324101451.html NASCAR fans are helping the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion get a small facelift. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:48:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323094834.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323094834.html Mississippi’s mental hospital isn’t properly equipped to handle a death row inmate whose execution was blocked by a federal judge, who ruled the inmate was insane, state authorities argued in court records. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:34:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323094322.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323094322.html Alliant Techsystems says it’s landed its largest commercial contract ever and will make Airbus airplane parts in a deal worth about $1 billion. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:33:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323093359.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323093359.html Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee due to crop losses from a combination of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:29:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323093024.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323093024.html Helen Gable was taking pictures on the railroad tracks in Tupelo in 2006 when a train cut her leg nearly off as she tried to get out of the way. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:26:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323092745.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323092745.html Members of a tiny church in the rural Mississippi Delta are mourning the loss of their pastor who was found stabbed to death in his own home this past weekend. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:24:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323092455.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323092455.html The head of the American Gaming Association says U.S. commercial casinos made $7.94 billion in revenue in the third quarter, 5.5 percent less than a year earlier. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:21:00 +0000 http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323092319.html http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_323092319.html Cory Maye has won a new trial in the slaying of a Prentiss police officer because a judge denied Maye his constitutional right to be tried in south Mississippi’s Jefferson Davis County.