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Southern Co.'s latest 8k filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission contains news about former Mississippi Power Co.

The Southern Company has long been a staple in conservatively managed dividend and retirement portfolios.

ATLANTA &#8212 Southern Co. announced a number of key management changes Thursday as it prepares for the retirement of its chief operating officer, a 42-year veteran at the energy holding company.

Prior, Wood was chairman, president and CEO of SunTrust Bank Central Group, having responsibility for Georgia and Tennessee.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law.

U.S. utilities led by Southern Co. are burning a record amount of natural gas for generating electricity without triggering a forecasted boost to the fuel's price from near 10-year lows.

We Told You So: Major Cost Overruns Latest Sign of Vogtle Woes, Including Construction Errors and Raft of Amendments to Federal License Washington, DC, May 11, 2012 - Even though the Vogtle reactor project got its federal license just three months ago, the controversial nuclear reactors are already in trouble.

President and CEO of Southern Company Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, Susan Story, will be a featured panelist at DNV KEMA's fifth annual Utility of the Future Leadership Forum, "Pathway to excellence." Story will participate in the first half of the CEO panel "View from the Top: Managing in a Slow or Flat Economy," ... (more)

Southern Co. executives say the schedule to build a new nuclear plant in Georgia has slipped seven months and that costs could rise.

U.S. utilities led by Southern Co. are burning a record amount of natural gas for generating electricity without triggering a forecasted boost to the fuel's price from near 10-year lows.

If this scenario sounds familiar to you, it's because it's the plot of the 2011 film "Contagion." While the story is fiction, the threat is real.

Southern Company is a high-quality regulated utility that also participates in competitive markets across the southeastern United States.

Vulcan Materials Co . has sent a letter to its shareholders urging them not to vote for board candidates advanced by Martin Marietta Materials , which has launched a hostile takeover bid for the Birmingham company.