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21-07-2025
- Business
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Job hunting? These are the 3 best MS companies to work for, says US News & World Report
Job hunting in Mississippi? Great news! The Magnolia State has some of the best employers in the country. Recently, U.S. News & World Report released its list of the best companies to work for, which included three headquartered in Mississippi. This was determined by looking at 5,000 large publicly traded companies, analyzing metrics like pay and comfort, and giving each a score. Categories were given a 1-5 ranking, with 5 being the best. KLLM KLLM is a Richland-based transportation company that's one of the biggest temperature-controlled trucking carriers in the country. It was founded in 1963 and now has an annual revenue between $500 million and $1 billion and it employees between 5,000 and 10,000 people. Quality of pay: 5 Work-life balance: 3 Stability: 4 Comfort: 5 Belongingness: 4 Professional development: 3 The First The First is based in Hattiesburg. Founded in 1996, this finance and insurance firm achieved perfect scores in work-life balance, comfort, and belonging. U.S. News ranked it as one of the best companies to work in the South. In April, the bank merged with Renasant Corporation in Tupelo. According to a news release, The First's operations are expected to be fully integrated with Renasant by August. Quality of pay: 3 Work-life balance: 5 Stability: 4 Comfort: 5 Belongingness: 5 Professional development: 3 More: South Mississippi home to state's three top employers. Can you guess which ones? Yates Construction Yates Construction is based in Philadelphia, MS. The engineering and construction firm was founded in 1963. Today, it has an annual revenue between $1 billion and $10 billion. Quality of pay: 5 Work-life balance: 4 Stability: 3 Comfort: 4 Belongingness: 3 Professional development: 1 Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for Gannett/USA Today. Find him on Instagram @miguelegoas and email at mlegoas@ Bonnie Bolden is the Deep South Connect reporter for Mississippi with Gannett/USA Today. Email her at bbolden@ This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: US News & World Report names best companies to work for in MS 2025 Solve the daily Crossword
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07-03-2025
- General
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Groff Elem. to be closed remainder of school year
Mar. 7—MOSES LAKE — Groff Elementary will be closed for the remainder of the school year, according to Moses Lake School District Superintendent Carol Lewis at the March 6 regular school board meeting. "What has been done is lots of testing, lots of repairs," Lewis said. "We first have to figure out exactly what the problem is and then make the proper repairs to the building." Groff students have been attending classes from home all week after an electrical problem caused an unidentified person to be shocked on campus. The school was originally planned to be closed March 3 through March 7. "The staff at Groff was amazing. Robbie (Mason, executive director of secondary education) has been supporting them a ton, along with a lot of other people who are not in this room and in this room, and our kids at Groff have been learning from home," Lewis said. "The teachers have gotten materials for them, and that's going as well as could be expected." Students will continue to work from home until a plan is finalized to shift them into other MLSD campuses. Students will be kept in the same grade level and class as that plan is developed, according to Lewis. "Currently, the teachers are working to do remote learning with the kids," Lewis said. "Then plans are being made to relocate classrooms of teachers and students, intact, to other locations around the buildings." The district released a statement saying the details are being finalized with an eye toward transportation, staffing, classroom placements, support services and overall student well-being in mind. The district will have more details in coming days, staff said. Last April, a similar situation happened. MLSD Communications Director Ryan Shannon said the electrical problems are related to contractual issues the district has been working on with the Groff general contractor, Richland-based Fowler General Construction. The nearly $27 million school was paid for by a voter approved bond in 2017. The school opened in September 2021. "We have had some challenges at Groff elementary with an electrical issue, and people probably recall that we had a similar challenge last year, and some fixes were put in place, and it was believed that those were enough to prevent the issues from reoccurring," Lewis said during the meeting. "Well, recently, we had some electrical issues reoccur, and we needed to, for the safety of staff and students, close the building to try to do some more tests to try to figure out what's going on," Lewis said the announcement may be sudden and jarring; however, she thinks it's the most stable option for the students. "It's what we need to do in order to not go through a chaotic cycle that where we would say we'll open it and then we'll need to close it again, and potentially, if issues come about, we're just not certain enough about the safety of that building to have kids in there," Lewis said. "We need to get the construction folks in there to figure out what's going on and to be able to fix it adequately so that we can use the building as intended."
