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December 16, 2008
Dick Butkus: The Punisher
Dick Butkus: The Punisher He wore No. 51 for the Bears, but nobody ever needed a number to identify him on the field. He had a primal, predatory gait, and he closed on opposing ball carriers like a runaway locomotive. No one was better at finishing a tackle. He would slam a running back to…
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December 16, 2008
Pre-K program to start with at least $4.6M in donations
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/16/8 A planned pilot early childhood education initiative, designed to provide a roadmap for a statewide program, got a big boost Monday with $4.6 million in donations from the private sector. Officials hope to kick off the Mississippi Building Blocks program, at a cost of $10.5 million, in August 2009…
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December 16, 2008
Langston faces sentencing today in judicial corruption
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/8 Disbarred Booneville lawyer Joey Langston is scheduled to appear in federal court at 10 a.m. today to be sentenced in a judicial corruption case. Langston pleaded guilty nearly a year ago to conspiring to influence Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter in a legal fee dispute case involving Dickie Scruggs. Scruggs, who…
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December 16, 2008
Ex-guards’ legal fees vote set
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/8 It is unlikely again that Mayor Frank Melton’s two former bodyguards will get financial help from the Jackson City Council to pay attorney fees from their 2007 state trial. The request on behalf of Michael Recio and Marcus Wright was not approved in October when the vote ended in a tie .…
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December 16, 2008
Lawyers asked to help judge clear debt
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/8 Mississippi lawyers have been asked to help incoming state Supreme Court Justice Jim Kitchens wipe out a campaign debt of about $300,000. Kitchens spent more than a half-million dollars on his campaign to unseat Chief Justice Jim Smith in the November general election. An e-mail letter sent out to lawyers by the…
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December 16, 2008
Charles Barkley says race was No. 1 factor in Turner Gill not getting Auburn job
Charles Barkley says race was No. 1 factor in Turner Gill not getting Auburn job AUBURN – Former Auburn and NBA star Charles Barkley said Monday he believes race was the biggest reason the school’s new football coach is Gene Chizik rather than Turner Gill, who is black. “I think race was the No. 1…
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December 16, 2008
Auburn’s ‘best fit’ defense of Chizik looks lame
Auburn’s ‘best fit’ defense of Chizik looks lame Auburn’s best defense against charges of racism in hiring a football coach is its administration’s track record of color-blind incompetence. Tommy Tuberville is extremely white and extremely successful, but the school inexplicably paid $5.1 million to buy him out and replace him with Gene Chizik. At Iowa…
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December 16, 2008
Miss. marine agency gets $7.3M tidelands check
The Sun Herald, 12/16/8 Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has presented the Commission on Marine Resources a check for $7.3 million from tidelands leases and assessments on the Mississippi coast. The revenue was collected on tidelands leases in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2008. The tidelands assessment revenue stems from 2005 legislation that…
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December 16, 2008
State, Toyota talk about what the delay will cost
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/16/8 Toyota and state officials are discussing how the automaker might cover any extra costs associated with the delay of the Blue Springs plant, Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday. Barbour said the state has spent about $200 million on infrastructure needs for the plant and local governments have kicked in…
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December 16, 2008
Toyota plant on hold indefinitely
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/16/8 Slumping automobile sales in the U.S. has forced Toyota again to delay – this time indefinitely – the opening of its $1.3 billion assembly plant in Blue Springs. It’s the second delay the company has announced for the plant that will create more than 2,000 jobs and produce the Prius hybrid. The…
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December 16, 2008
Cigarette tax increase will require legislative compromise
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 12/16/8 Gov. Haley Barbour already has had to trim the budget for the current fiscal year because revenue is not coming in as predicted, and more cuts are possible. Yet some Republican legislators and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant are talking about possible tax cuts. True, on the national level…
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December 16, 2008
From the sideline to the boardroom (Hugh Nall)
From the sideline to the boardroom (Hugh Nall) Hugh Nall was in Albany less than six months ago, preparing for another major college football season as Auburn’s offensive line coach for what seemed a year full of promise. At the annual preseason meeting of the Southwest Georgia Auburn Club in June, he tried to get…
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Frank Corder
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December 23, 2025
Coast Guard returning full operations to its Pascagoula station
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Jeremy Pittari
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December 23, 2025
Mississippi Dept. of Education launches AI pilot program in 15 school districts
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Fatima Hussein, Associated Press
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December 23, 2025
Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
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Frank Corder
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December 19, 2025
Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility
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Frank Corder
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December 18, 2025
Steel industry supplier P.C. Campana moving manufacturing line to Vicksburg
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Frank Corder
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December 15, 2025
Amick Farms announces $74.5 million expansion in Jones County
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Meredith Biesinger
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December 23, 2025
The Singing Christmas Tree: A Belhaven tradition and a Mississippi legacy
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Alistair Begg
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December 23, 2025
Delighting in God’s will
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Chris Burrows, Associated Press
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December 22, 2025
Ole Miss embraces upcoming rematch with Georgia in a CFP quarterfinal at the Sugar Bowl
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Donna Akers
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December 23, 2025
The joy of learning has been lost. It’s time to bring it back
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Kimberly Ross
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December 22, 2025
Don’t say anything at all: Rob Reiner, Donald Trump, textbook narcissism and double standards
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Kelley Williams
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December 19, 2025
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