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February 13, 2009
Decision expected in probe of star’s death -Billy Joe Johnson
Decision expected in probe of star’s death -Billy Joe Johnson A grand jury in George County (Miss.) will announce Thursday whether there should be any criminal indictments in the death of high school football star Billey Joe Johnson. The 17-year-old Johnson, a highly recruited running back out of George County High School, died Dec. 8…
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February 13, 2009
Auburn coach Gene Chizik on success, hard work, and not backing down
Auburn coach Gene Chizik on success, hard work, and not backing down During a 30-minute speech to the Birmingham Rotary Club Wednesday, Gene Chizik didn’t accuse anyone of cheating. He didn’t brag about the assistant coaches he’d hired away from other programs. He didn’t even gloat about the recruits he’d stolen from Southeastern Conference rivals…
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February 13, 2009
Sports should go green, allow pot smoking
Sports should go green, allow pot smoking Weed, the Breakfast of Champions. I’ve been waiting a long time – 11 years to be exact – for the sports world to seize on that concept, but no one’s had the guts. Now, far later than I expected, we’ve entered pot’s perfect storm. Just as the economy…
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February 12, 2009
More from NMC in the courtroom of the Bobby DeLaughter arraignment
Judge Bobby DeLaughter has been arraigned on a five count federal indictment When prosecutor Bob Norman came in, he shook Judge DeLaughter’s hand and said, “Judge DeLaughter, I’m sorry. I’m sorry we’re here.” After he waived reading of the indictment, DeLaughter pled “not guilty to all charges.” He is charged in a five-count indictment. The…
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February 12, 2009
SH – Hinds County Judge Bobby DeLaughter pleads not guilty to five counts in judicial bribery case
DeLaughter pleads not guilty to five counts in judicial bribery case Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter has pleaded not guilty to five federal counts in a judicial bribery case. The plea was made Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford, while the indictment initially remained sealed. An April 6 trial date was set. Sun…
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February 12, 2009
Cynthia Speetjens involved for Bobby DeLaughter in Eaton vs. Frisby
Here is a piece I drug up today that I had yet to see on Eaton vs. Frisby. Letter of Apology posts a response to a subpeona on Bobby DeLaughter where he was represented by Cynthia Speetjens. Make of it what you will. I’d love everyone’s thoughts on whether this is/isn’t relevant.
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February 12, 2009
DJ – DeLaughter pleads not guilty to charges
DeLaughter pleads not guilty to charges The indictment will be opened later today. A trial date set for April 6 before Judge Glen H. Davidson. DeLaughter is out on a bond of $10,000. NE MS Daily Journal 2/12/9
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February 12, 2009
NMC connects some dots and speculates on Scruggs II
Overview of the Scruggs cases in light of U.S. v. DeLaughter Judge DeLaughter has been arraigned, and we’re about to start Scruggs II, only now one principal actor has changed sides. Anyone coming to this story now is literally coming in medias res– in a very complex way, in the middle of an arguably tragic…
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February 12, 2009
YP BREAKING – Bobby DeLaughter pleads not guilty to charges in Scruggs II
Courtesy of NMC, a shackled Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby DeLaughter has pleaded not guilty to charges in what federal prosecutors have described as “Scruggs II”. He was being represented by Jackson attorney Cynthia Speetjens.
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February 12, 2009
Senate decides against MAEP funds
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/12/9 Senate Democrats on Wednesday lost by a 25-24 margin in an effort to restore the $76 million Gov. Haley Barbour cut from the Mississippi Adequate Education Program earlier this year. Barbour made the cuts because state tax collections were not meeting projections. Adequate Education is the program that provides…
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February 12, 2009
Judge explains order to hire Diaz
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 With a standing-room-only crowd, Chancery Judge Larry Buffington on Wednesday explained to Simpson County supervisors his rationale for ordering them to hire former state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. as a Youth Court public defender. “Oliver is a friend, but there was no quid pro quo,” Buffington said at the meeting…
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February 12, 2009
Scandal edges closer to Cochran, staff
The Sun Herald, 2/11/9 The food and drinks weren’t quite what the Senate aide expected when she arrived at the lobbyist’s luxury suite for the Orioles baseball game at Baltimore’s Camden Yards. “Ackkk. Only beer and no Hebrew National hot dogs,” Ann Copland complained in a June 2003 e-mail now on file in federal court.…
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Frank Corder
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February 25, 2026
Reactions to President Trump’s State of the Union from Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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February 25, 2026
House sends Mobile Sports Wagering Act to Senate
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Daniel Tyson
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February 25, 2026
Yates continues push to hold landlords accountable for unpaid utility bills
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Frank Corder
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February 25, 2026
Carpenter Pole and Piling expanding in Wiggins
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Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
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February 23, 2026
Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits
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Frank Corder
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February 18, 2026
Firehawk Aerospace establishing manufacturing operations in Crawford
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Richelle Putnam
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February 25, 2026
The Capital River Region joins Mississippi Songwriters Alliance in historic Natchez
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Alistair Begg
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February 25, 2026
The blood that frees to serve
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Meredith Biesinger
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February 24, 2026
The Painted Lady: A Victorian Mississippi beauty made for memories
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Mike Chaney
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February 25, 2026
Insurance fraud effects everyone
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Sid Salter
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February 25, 2026
When taxpayers incentivize jobs, the state should protect workers’ privacy in union votes
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Philip Wegmann
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February 23, 2026
Trump lashes out at Supreme Court as under “foreign influence”
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