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COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Prep work is being done in a Mississippi cemetery for a...

Allan McDonald, engineer and whistleblower in Challenger disaster, dies at 83 He tried to postpone the fateful 1986 space shuttle launch over safety concerns, but was overruled by superiors. By Emily LangerThe Washington Post Share Allan McDonald, a rocket scientist and whistleblower who refused to sign off on the space shuttle Challenger’s launch over safety concerns and, after its explosion, argued that the tragedy could have been averted had officials heeded warnings from engineers like himself, died March 6 at a hospital in Ogden, Utah. He was 83. The cause was complications from a re...

MGN Online Posted: Mar 8, 2021 9:39 AM Posted By: Associated Press COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that a former Mississippi police officer filed after he was fired. The Columbus City Council removed Reginald Adams as an investigator in March 2019. He filed a lawsuit in May 2020, claiming wrongful termination and violation of privacy. The lawsuit said three council members improperly told the Commercial Dispatch that Adams would be disciplined for driving a police vehicle to another city to apply for a job. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock dismissed Adams�...

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that a former Mississippi police officer filed after he was fired. The Commercial Dispatch reported that the Columbus City...

Former CFO of Mississippi city sentenced for embezzlement February 22, 2021 GMT COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — The former chief financial officer of a Mississippi city has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement — the maximum sentence for that crime. The Commercial Dispatch reported that Milton Rawle, 49, entered the guilty plea Monday in Lowndes County Circuit Court. Rawle worked for the city of Columbus from 2013 to 2019. Investigators said he moved $288,893 from city accounts to his personal accounts between December 2016 and December 2018. The maximum sente...