HUD Debars Sunset Village Landlords Long After Deaths In Mississippi Delta
The federal government has debarred the landlord of a Cleveland, Miss., apartment complex where two residents died in a gas leak.
The federal government has debarred the landlord of a Cleveland, Miss., apartment complex where two residents died in a gas leak.
The 2023 Mississippi Invitational’s theme, “Gulfs among Us,” threads through the show, resonating on multiple levels: in artwork centered in this region, and as a response to rifts of all types—social, political, cultural, environmental and internal.
In 2020, David “Dingo Dave” Williams finally decided to make lawn care a full-time profession and opened Dingo Dave’s Lawn Care & Home Repair in Boyle, Miss. He provides lawn-care services to around 40 homes and counting in Bolivar County.
Future rape victims in Mississippi can have more confidence that the State will process their rape test kits in a timely manner after Gov. Tate Reeves signed House Bill 485 into law on April 17, but much work remains to be done, Ilse Knecht told the Mississippi Free Press.
A Bolivar County judge has ordered an independent inspection of the Sunset Village apartments just outside Cleveland, Miss., to ensure no threat of gas or carbon monoxide poisoning remains after two people died there in August. Residents continue to live in nearby motels and many warn that living conditions remain unsafe at their units.
Bobby Rush, Central Transportation Commissioner Willie Simmons, Carla Thomas and Eddie Lloyd break ground at a press conference for the site of the National R&B Hall of Fame, which took place in Marks, Miss., on Sept. 30, 2022.
Bolivar County Chancery Court Judge Catherine Farris-Carter issued a 10-day temporary restraining order yesterday afternoon against the management of Sunset Village Apartments just outside Cleveland, Miss. The order requires that residents of the ailing complex be provided alternative housing and adequate meals until proper repairs and inspections are completed on their units.
Lawyers from the University of Mississippi’s Low-Income Housing Clinic have alleged a litany of egregious violations of housing law against complex owner Sunset Moore MS TC, LP, and manager The Millennia Companies, which is based in Ohio.
Li Ann Sanchez, a Mexican and Indigenous trans woman, was the guest of honor at the Immigrants Alliance for Justice and Equity “Queerceañera,” an LGBTQ reclamation of a traditional Latin quinceañera.
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