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May 28, 2009

Governor Barbour and MDA announce new affordable housing progress in Recovery effort

With the opening of 262 new units today, the Mississippi Development Authority’s (MDA) Public Housing Grant Program – funded through Mississippi’s $5.4 billion federally provided Hurricane Katrina recovery package – has now finished more than 900 public housing units, and more are poised to become available in the coming weeks. “We said in April that…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 28, 2009

State Auditor Stacey Pickering nets embezzlement plea from Winston County official

Angie Tidwell, former bookkeeper for the Winston County Tax Collector’s Office, pled guilty to two counts of embezzlement by a public employee. State Auditor Stacey Pickering issued Tidwell a $260,228.54 demand for funds embezzled from garbage fees and motor vehicle taxes from the Winston County Tax Collector’s Office from October 2003 through March 2007. The…