Hershey Co.’s Memphis plant has struck up a deal with Northwest Mississippi Community College to provide workers through the college’s career-technical education division.
Company officials tell The Commercial Appeal the chocolate maker was seeking a partner to train workers for the company’s recent shift toward mechatronics, a field of engineering that integrates mechanics, electronics, control theory and computer science.
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The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) has announced the launching of the new Mississippi Minority Business Registry. The registry, which can be accessed online at www.mmbr.org, serves as an easy-to-use and reliable resource for public and private entities seeking the services of qualified minority- and women-owned businesses in Mississippi.
A part of MDA’s Diversity in Contracting initiative focused on increasing minority- and women-owned business participation in private and public contracting opportunities, the registry provides businesses and government agencies with greater access to minority- and women-owned companies that can meet their procurement needs.
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Two Chickasaw County residents have been arrested for a second time in a year after allegedly selling counterfeit clothing from Urban Wear located at 205 Church Street in Okolona.
Attorney General Jim Hood said Willie McMillian, 46, and Sophia Hill, 47, of Okolona, were taken into custody by investigators with the Attorney General’s Office Consumer Protection Division, Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the Okolona Police Department, and the North Mississippi Narcotics Unit following a successful undercover operation by member of the Attorney General’s Knock Out Knock-Offs Task Force at Urban Wear.
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Entergy Mississippi says it has completed its $206 million purchase of a Jackson power plant.
The unit of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. bought the plant from KGen Power Corp. of Houston Friday. It also completed the $253 million purchase of another KGen plant in Malvern, Ark. […]
) International Paper Co. is paying a $38,250 civil fine for failing to label used oil tanks and exceeding air pollution limits from a lime kiln.
The company, based in Memphis, Tenn., agreed in September to pay the fine to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).
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Officials at Ice Industries Grenada said they are adding 35 jobs and investing $500,000 in an expansion.
The unit of privately-held ICE Industries of Sylvania, Ohio, says it’s expanding engineering, testing and manufacturing at the north Mississippi metal stamping plant, The Clarion-Ledger reports. […]
Another inmate has been charged with participating in a deadly prison riot in Mississippi.
One guard was killed and 20 people were injured in the May 20 riot at the privately-run Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, which holds illegal immigrants convicted of crimes in the U.S.
Pedro Gonzalez De Los Reyes has been charged and a complaint filed by an FBI agent says he assaulted a guard.
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Ingalls Shipbuilding President Irwin F. Edenzon said the company will hire more than 5,000 workers over the next two years.
Edenzon made the announcement at a recent career fair that drew more than 1,200 students from six counties. He said Ingalls will be hiring 1,200 people through the end of the year and another 4,000 next year. Most of those are craftsman positions.
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Handy Hardware, a Texas-based hardware store cooperative, plans to close its 2-year-old Meridian warehouse on Dec. 31, laying off 109 workers.
Mississippi Development Authority spokesman Dan Turner says the state contributed a $3.6 million grant to Handy and plans to demand the money’s return. Handy CEO Ken White says he hasn’t heard from the state.
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Registration still open for second ‘free’ session
The Mississippi Link Newswire
LEXINGTON, Miss. – The Community Students Learning Center’s “free” EDGE (Empowering the Delta with a Growing Economy) Job Training Program is providing job marketing skills to interested participants.
Registration is still open for a new session which began Sept. 25. […]
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