Stories from Friday, December 11, 2009

The Mississippi County Hospital System was in "an awful state" last spring when Ameris Health Systems abandoned its management contract with the county and QHR health systems came on board, John Alan Nelson, chairman of the Quorum Court's Financial Committee said...

Missco Football league may have to wait

The public is invited to give the gift of life this season at the Emergency/Employees Public Services Blood Drive, according to a press release from the Blytheville Police Department. The blood drive will be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday in front of the Mississippi County Court House in Blytheville, across from the Blytheville Police Department...

A $1 million appropriation made by the Quorum Court from the county to the hospital system last month may not be reimbursed to county general. In the court's meeting on Nov. 24, Justice John Alan Nelson, the Court's Finance Committee chairman, told justices that the appropriation was a loan to the hospital system until a $1 million payment called an "inter-governmental transfer" was received...

A $1 million appropriation made by the Quorum Court from the county to the hospital system last month may not be reimbursed to county general. In the court's meeting on Nov. 24, Justice John Alan Nelson, the Court's Finance Committee chairman, told justices that the appropriation was a loan to the hospital system until a $1 million payment called an "inter-governmental transfer" was received...

Authors Alan Lange and Tom Dawson will be at the Kress Building from noon-2 p.m. Saturday during the "Christmas at the Kress" event to promote their book, "Kings of Tort." "Kings of Tort" chronicles the sordid tale of judicial bribery and political intrigue in Mississippi, birthplace of the tobacco litigation and long known as one of the most tort-friendly jurisdictions in the nation...