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March 6, 2009
Governor Barbour announces progress in fighting fraud in Medicaid and SCHIP
Governor Haley Barbour announced today the Division of Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance program were among the best in the nation at keeping fraudulent payments low. In Fiscal Year 2008, the statewide Medicaid Eligibility Error Rate was 0.0095 percent and the SCHIP Error Rate was 0.0333 percent, according to the U.S. Centers for…
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March 6, 2009
CL – Dems to Decide New Director, Ike Brown’s Possible Return
CL – Dems to Decide New Director, Ike Brown’s Possible Return Mississippi Democrats meet this weekend to consider hiring a new executive director and restoring power to Ike Brown, a former executive committee member with legal troubles over the way he’s handled elections in Noxubee County. Fireworks are expected over his possible return. Also, members…
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March 5, 2009
Henderson agrees to four-year deal
Henderson agrees to four-year deal While the Saints have yet to sign a free agent from another team this offseason, they brought back another of their own as wide receiver Devery Henderson agreed to a four-year contract Wednesday afternoon. sunherald.com 3/4/09
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March 5, 2009
New federal trial date set for Jackson Mayor Frank Melton
New federal trial date set for Jackson mayor Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his former bodyguard Michael Recio will be retried May 11 for damage caused to a Ridgeway Street duplex in August 2006. Melton and Recio’s federal civil rights trial ended last week in a mistrial when jurors were unable to reach a verdict…
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March 5, 2009
PERRY – Ike Brown’s election shenanigans
US 5th Circuit upholds ruling against Noxubee party boss Imagine a majority white county in Mississippi where the local party boss flagrantly suppresses black voter activity. He issues statements listing the names of local black activists who he will challenge if they attempt to vote. When blacks vote by absentee, he flags their ballots the…
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March 5, 2009
NCAA bracket expert says forget Auburn, UAB
NCAA bracket expert says forget Auburn, UAB The Southeastern Conference basketball season finally got here, on Tuesday night when the second-largest crowd of the season showed up in Tuscaloosa to watch Alabama and Auburn. Of course, the cynic would argue that the majority of the 13,265 on hand were there for the presentation of the…
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March 5, 2009
MSU athlete suspended after arrest
MSU athlete suspended after arrest Maurice Langston, a junior college transfer defensive back from East Central Community College, has been suspended indefinitely from Mississippi State’s football team following his Saturday arrest. Langston, 20, was arrested in Hattiesburg Saturday night and charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Forrest County Jail records…
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March 5, 2009
Senate rebuffs funding on Till; Holder vows to find way
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/5/9 The U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated an amendment to appropriate funding for the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act in the omnibus spending bill. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., proposed a $10 million amendment to help bring justice to unsolved civil rights cases. He said the funding would come from the…
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March 5, 2009
State’s jobless rate climbs as economy slumps
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/5/9 The state’s unemployment rate jumped to 9.2 percent in January, rising from 7.6 percent in December as laid-off holiday workers returned to the state’s jobless list. The national unemployment rate was 8.5 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release state-by-state data next week that will reflect how Mississippi stacks up among…
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March 5, 2009
Nissan moves ahead with Canton expansion
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/5/9 Despite the failing national economy, Nissan on Wednesday affirmed plans to move forward with a $118 million plant expansion to prepare its Canton factory to build light commercial vehicles next year. The company originally announced the initiative last year, but auto sales have dipped dramatically for Nissan and other auto manufacturers in…
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March 5, 2009
Bill has $80 million in Miss. earmarks
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/5/9 While congressional earmarks have sizzled as a political issue recently, Mississippi’s two Republican U.S. senators continue to be ardent participants and defenders of the process. A probable Senate vote Friday on a $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill could determine the fate of nearly $80 million in funds earmarked by…
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March 5, 2009
Melton denies claims in officer’s lawsuit
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/5/9 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton denied Wednesday he had anything to do with the transfer of a police officer who cooperated with federal agents investigating him. “I had no knowledge of him being moved. I don’t even know his name,” Melton said. Jackson police officer Robert Watts, who has been on the force…
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September 23, 2026
Mississippi police make 2nd arrest in death of black woman found hanging from tree, seek 3rd suspect
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Frank Corder
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September 23, 2026
After losing her bid for U.S. Senate in the Democratic Primary, Priscilla Till to run for Mississippi Governor
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Cass Rutledge
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September 23, 2026
Raybern Foods expansion in Shannon bringing 70 new jobs to area
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Cass Rutledge
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September 18, 2026
Industrial Timber expanding its Ripley operations with $2.6 million investment
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Frank Corder
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September 15, 2026
Hitachi Energy brings largest U.S. investment to date to Mississippi
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September 10, 2026
General Atomics announced second expansion this year, bringing 125 more jobs to Shannon
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September 23, 2026
No. 21 Florida counting on Swamp to help slow down No. 4 Ole Miss star QB Trinidad Chambliss
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Marilyn Tinnin
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September 23, 2026
Jim Abbott: Paper man chasing the truth in the Mississippi Delta
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Alistair Begg
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September 23, 2026
Discord and division
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Sid Salter
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September 23, 2026
Midterm elections in Mississippi shaping up as a familiar exercise in black-and-white
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Bill Cork
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September 22, 2026
The states winning investment are the states ready to deliver
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Lesley Davis
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September 21, 2026
The war on women’s spaces has reached the sorority house
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