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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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February 12, 2009
Mayor was routinely drunk, Wright testifies
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 Mayor Frank Melton’s former police bodyguard testified Wednesday it was not uncommon for him to see the mayor drinking. Marcus Wright said he was often sent on runs to the liquor store to pick up alcohol for Melton. And when asked by prosecutors how many times he had seen Melton under the…
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February 12, 2009
Melton, Recio knew the law, officials say
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 Mayor Frank Melton and Michael Recio, the mayor’s former police bodyguard, had been instructed on the legal ways to shut down a reported “dope house,” witnesses for the federal government testified Wednesday. Yet both men acted otherwise, according to the prosecution. The testimony came on the third day of Melton and Recio’s…
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Jeremy Pittari
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September 21, 2026
Statewide assistance program opens for families dealing with opioid abuse
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Clara Turnage
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September 21, 2026
Student-athletes report need for suicide prevention, training
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Frank Corder
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September 21, 2026
President Trump welcomes Mississippi’s Reeves, other governors to Oval Office for Medicaid announcement
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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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Frank Corder
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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 21, 2026
Sights from the Vaught: Ole Miss vs. LSU
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Pete Iacobelli, Associated Press
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September 21, 2026
Taylor’s four TDs rally Mississippi St. from 16-0 down to 41-34 win at South Carolina in SEC opener
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Chris Burrows, Associated Press
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September 21, 2026
Ole Miss’ Trinidad Chambliss says win over Lane Kiffin and LSU ‘meant more than other games’
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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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Sid Salter
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September 16, 2026
Despite many statutory protections, there is no clear constitutional right to clean water
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Russ Latino
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September 15, 2026
Sydney Sweeney Novig Ad: Body positivity’s double standard
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