WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg-based company awarded $10.3M Farmers to Families Food Box contract
By WDAM Staff
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $10.3 million contract to Hattiesburg-based Merchants Foodservice for the Farmers to Families Food Box Program...
Insurance News Net
EPA Selects Four Projects in Mississippi to Receive $1.4 Million for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment
Targeted News Service
JACKSON, Mississippi, May 9 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 7:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin
Delta Health Center Gets More Funding For COVID-19 Testing
By BRyan Davis
Mound Bayou-based Delta Health Center has received more funding to increase COVID-19 testing capacity.
According to a release from U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith this week, the health center...
Vicksburg Post
Port Gibson health facility to receive federal money to expand COVID-19 testing
By Staff Reports
For weeks, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Claiborne County remained in the single digits. It then crept higher, before spiking in the past week to now 33 confirmed cases.
Th...
WTOK-TV Meridian
National Nurses Day: Celebrating nurses as superheroes
Posted: Wed 4:34 PM, May 06, 2020
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - Anderson Regional Health System adopted a superhero theme for its observance of National Nurses Day.
Nurses were also treated to breakfast as a way of saying thanks...
WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
SBA loans now available for Miss. agribusinesses affected by COVID-19 pandemic
By WDAM Staff
WASHINGTON (WDAM) - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect the economy, including Mississippi’s agriculture and agribusiness industry.
Assistance through the Small...
Seafood Source
USDA to spend USD 70 million in COVID-19 relief funds on domestic seafood
By Steve Bittenbender
May 5, 2020
The U.S Department of Agriculture announced on Monday, 4 May, it had purchased USD 470 million (EUR 433.4 million) worth of agricultural products as part of its COVID-19...
Buckhannon (W.Va.) Record Delta
Capito, GOP colleagues send letter to FBI and ATF on Firearms Background Check System during Coronavirus Pandemic
Posted May 5, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) sent a letter today to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director...
Feedstuffs
USDA announces $470m in food purchases
Purchases included $120 million in dairy products, $30 million each in pork products, chicken, and catfish products and $50 million in turkey products.
By Jacqui Fatka
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Monday details of $470...
The Associated Press
U.S. officials award $5.5M for Gulf Coast train service
The Associated Press
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Plans to restore passenger train service along the Gulf Coast are getting a big boost.
Members of Congress from Mississippi announced Friday that the Federal Railroad...
