February 12, 2021 By H. Nelson Spencer
Capt. Ronnie Paul Stevens, 51, knew at an early age he was going to be the captain one day of a towing vessel in the commercial marine industry. He loved being on the water and was raised around boats. His father worked at a shipyard in Lockport, La., where he was born and raised. Plus, his two best friends and their father worked on boats.
“Why wait?” he remembers asking himself when he was a sophomore in high school. “Why not just start my career right away, and make a good living doing what I love?”
A man who fled from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) office in Aberdeen Jan. 26 and again from the Monroe County Sheriffâs Office Monday was arrested Wednesday.
Joshua Addington, 31, of Smithville surrendered on a set of railroad tracks near Smithville to the same deputy who transported him earlier in the week, according to Sheriff Kevin Crook.
He was arrested at a residence alongside Parham Store Road Monday for absconding from the MDOC nearly two weeks prior. Deputies found him to be in possession of three firearms in the attic of the home, including a sawed-off shotgun.Â
Addington managed to escape from the patrol car nearly two blocks away from the Monroe County Detention Center in Aberdeen before he was booked.
BASF and Olin Asked to Pay for Hazardous Substance Clean-Up at Alabama Superfund Site
December 21, 2020
The United States has filed a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) action against Olin Corporation and BASF Corporation seeking between $13.4 and $21.5 million in oversight costs, among other things. The Southern District of Alabama complaint, filed late last week, contends that the -Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found contaminants in part of the superfund site for which the defendants are allegedly responsible.
The United States explained that the superfund site is located in McIntosh, Ala., where Olin has reportedly owned and operated a chemical production facility since 1952. Between 1952 and 1984, the filing states, Olin discharged wastewater containing mercury and hexachlorobenze (HCB) into a drainage line flowing into Tombigbee River.
Catfish Cabin co-founder Charles Ezell dies of COVID-19
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
Charles Ezell, who took a Choctaw County restaurant and turned it into a chain of 35 restaurants around the South, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19.
The 77-year-old had been sick for two weeks previously but had appeared to be getting better before his condition quickly deteriorated last weekend, his nephew Agnew Hall said Friday.
“He went to the ER, they gave him oxygen and sent him home, and he appeared to be doing fine,” Hall said. “Then Monday morning, things changed, and he did not make it. It was quite a shock.”