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May 7, 2009
YP – Frank Melton has passed away (1949-2009)
Clarion Ledger Longtime community activist and Jackson Mayor Frank Melton died at 12:10 a.m. today at St. Dominic Hospital with family at his side, city spokeswoman Goldia Revies said. A former television station owner and personality, Melton, 60, will be remembered mostly for his turbulent political career that began four years ago with his overwhelming…
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May 7, 2009
CL – Scruggs departure signs of completed grand jury testimony, Freeland linked to Blake too
CL – Scruggs departure signs of completed grand jury testimony, Freeland linked to Blake too Imprisoned former lawyer Dickie Scruggs is no longer being housed in the county jail in Oxford. Scruggs was scheduled to return to federal prison in Ashland, Ky. He had been at the Lafayette County Detention Center since pleading guilty in…
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May 7, 2009
Scruggs mystery man hires lawyers
Scruggs mystery man hires lawyers P.L. Blake, the mystery man attorney Dickie Scruggs agreed to pay $50 million from the 1998 settlement of tobacco litigation, has hired four attorneys to represent him in an ongoing judicial bribery investigation. Oxford attorney Tom Freeland is representing Blake, whose name surfaced in the investigation as the person to…
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May 7, 2009
Breaking – Blogger Tom Freeland (NMC) is representing P.L. Blake
Blogger Tom Freeland (NMC) is representing P.L. Blake I am writing to confirm that I have been retained as local counsel by P.L. Blake, along with former U.S. Attorney Buck Buchanan, and counsel in Birmingham, former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones and Kirk Wood. I was retained a few weeks ago. I am going to continue…
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May 7, 2009
NTU – Letter to MS Gov. Barbour: Stand Up for Taxpayers, Veto Cigarette Tax Hike!
Letter to MS Gov. Barbour: Stand Up for Taxpayers, Veto Cigarette Tax Hike! The Honorable Haley Barbour P.O. Box 139 Jackson, MS 39205 Dear Gov. Barbour, On behalf of the taxpayers and small business owners of Mississippi, we urge you to veto the proposed 50-cent-per-pack increase in the state cigarette tax. This proposal is the…
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May 7, 2009
CL – Melton: Tragic election night fall is sad
Melton: Tragic election night fall is sad The likelihood that controversial incumbent Mayor Frank Melton was going to lose his battle for reelection quickly became secondary to a larger battle Tuesday. As the polls closed , Melton was rushed to the hospital for a medical emergency. It was reported that he was found unresponsive at…
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May 7, 2009
LNL – Two added to settlement talks in Zyprexa cases
LNL – Two added to settlement talks in Zyprexa cases A federal judge wants two more states to get busy settling their lawsuits against Eli Lilly & Co. U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein added Idaho and Minnesota to the list of states to be watched by special master Michael Rozen, who is overseeing settlement talks…
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May 7, 2009
Senate panel backs Brown
Senate panel backs Brown A Senate committee voted today to allow Mississippi Department of Transportation executive director Butch Brown to keep his job, despite concerns about his support of a killer’s parole, accusations of excessive spending and questions over his leadership style. Thirteen members of the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee supported Brown. Four voted…
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May 7, 2009
Scruggs no longer in Oxford jail
Scruggs no longer in Oxford jail Imprisoned former lawyer Dickie Scruggs is no longer being housed in the county jail in Oxford. On Tuesday, Scruggs’ attorney John Keker, who was in Oxford, would not comment. Prosecutors have refused to comment about whom or what they are investigating, but have confirmed there is an ongoing investigation…
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May 7, 2009
Bill Minor’s non-apology to Senator Chris McDaniel
Senator’s connection corrected I would not have known about the Senate action had not a tipster from Taylorsville-whose real identity I couldn’t establish-sent me a packet of material in the mail which included a photocopy of a newspaper column written by Sen. Chris McDaniel, (R-Ellisville) extolling Senate passage of SB3270 as a legislative accomplishment, saying…
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May 7, 2009
Shrill off camera browbeating of Melton spokesperson . . . ‘So you didn’t know’
Thank God for the “media”.
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Magnolia Tribune
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May 7, 2009
Voter fraud in New Albany?
State officials looking into possible voter fraud A low turnout Democratic primary in New Albany saw the defeat of two incumbent aldermen and headed the mayor’s race toward a run-off, along with two other alderman’s contests. But what got the attention of many sitting in the courthouse listening to election results was an announcement by…
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Stan Choe, Associated Press
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June 5, 2025
Wall Street drifts ahead of Friday’s jobs report
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Frank Corder
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June 5, 2025
Democrats celebrate “major victories” in Mississippi municipal elections; Republicans say they are “still winning the war”
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Mark Sherman, Associated Press
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June 5, 2025
Supreme Court makes it easier to claim ‘reverse discrimination’ in employment, in a case from Ohio
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Frank Corder
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May 19, 2025
Modine expanding data center cooling equipment manufacturing in Grenada County
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Lynne Jeter
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May 19, 2025
Goldman Sachs honors inaugural Mississippi small business graduating class
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Frank Corder
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May 15, 2025
HH2 relocating Kentucky distribution center to Blue Mountain, Mississippi
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Ben Smith
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June 5, 2025
Love God, love family, and shoot ducks
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Susan Marquez
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June 5, 2025
Southern food served in a roadside relic
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 5, 2025
Heard in His trial
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Sid Salter
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June 4, 2025
Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90
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Kimberly Ross
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June 3, 2025
The American epidemic of loneliness
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Frank Corder
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June 2, 2025
Municipal elections matter. Go vote!
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