Contract awarded to build helicopters at Columbus plant 

WTVA-TV Tupelo

Contract awarded to build helicopters at Columbus plant 

By Melvin Carlock 

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA) -- The U. S. Army awarded a contract to purchase helicopters built in Columbus.

Sen. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith announced the $122.6 million contact for Airbus Helicopter.

Th...

Officials Outline Details of Upcoming Railroad Overpass

Pine Belt News

Officials Outline Details of Upcoming Railroad Overpass
 
By Haskel Burns

Against the backdrop of a stationary Canadian National train, Mayor Toby Barker – along with other city, county and state officials – laid out the plan for a $5.39 grant that will help build an overpass over...

Chief of Naval Operations says connection with Ingalls is solid

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Chief of Naval Operations says connection with Ingalls is solid
 
By Mike Lacy

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - Adm. Michael Gilday has had a long history with Ingalls.

Thirty-seven years ago, he first came here as a midshipman in the Naval Academy, and while in the Navy, he sailed on...

Senator John Thune rebukes lift on Brazilian beef

KFGO-Radio Fargo, N.D.

Senator John Thune rebukes lift on Brazilian beef

By Anson Mareus

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today led a bipartisan group of senators in expressing their concern with the U.S...