20 Nov 2009 03:00pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Local News, Crime, Business
Man Pleads Guilty to Bootlegging Music CDs
Mississippi's crackdown on counterfeit products has netted a guilty plea from a Tupelo flea market vendor, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.
20 Nov 2009 09:26am | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Business, Health
Creosote Air Exposure Not Hazardous: Feds
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released the final version of its public health assessment (PHA) of air exposures to wood treatment chemicals from the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation site in Columbus.
19 Nov 2009 04:56pm | Posted by Christin Jackson | 0 comments | Local News, Business
Building Codes Keep It Safe
Training for Building Inspectors means the rest of us may not have to pick up the price tag later.
19 Nov 2009 03:55pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Local News, Business, Finance
Area Banks, Agencies Get SBA Honors
The Mississippi U.S. Small Business Administration District Office has named its 2009 top performing lenders.
19 Nov 2009 03:43pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Top Story, Business
No Bonuses for TVA Execs
The lump of coal in the Christmas stockings of Tennessee Valley Authority executives this year will be more like coal ash.
19 Nov 2009 03:38pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Local News, Political, Business, Education
Proposal to Merge Black Colleges Draws Fire
WCBI's Joey Barnes is in Jackson covering today's IHL meeting. Look for more from Joey tonight on WCBI News at 5, 6, 9 and 10 and here at WCBI.com...Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.
18 Nov 2009 01:22pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Local News, Business, Community event news, Faith & Family
Columbus Parade Deadline Nears; Jutman Is Grand Marshal
An enjoyable and successful Christmas Parade for the City of Columbus is being planned by numerous volunteers, participants and Main Street Columbus.
18 Nov 2009 07:54am | Posted by WCBI News Director | 0 comments | Local News, Business
Sunday Liquor Sales Passes in Tupelo
Council members vote 4-3.
17 Nov 2009 07:08pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Local News, Business
Counties Declared Crop Disaster Area
Congressman Travis Childers (MS-01) today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decision to designate nearly all Mississippi counties -- including all 24 counties in the First Congressional District -- as disaster areas, providing much-needed relief to farmers suffering from significant crop losses due to heavy rainfall and flooding.
17 Nov 2009 04:46pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 1 comments | Local News, Political, Business, Health
Columbus Council to Take Input on Smoking Ban
Sets hearing for next week instead of acting tonight.
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