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June 12, 2009
QUINN – Olive Branch man heads to prison for Bush threats
QUINN – Olive Branch man heads to prison for Bush threats A 20-year-old from Olive Branch was sentenced today to 18 months in the federal medical prison in Lexington, Ky., for sending threatening MySpace messages about President George W. Bush and other members of the government. During sentencing, Neal A. Thomas’ attorney, Kevin Payne, argued…
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June 12, 2009
Court agrees to disbar Peters
Court agrees to disbar Peters Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters, who has been linked to a high-profile judicial bribery investigation, has been granted his request to be disbarred. The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to Peters’ irrevocable resignation from the practice of law. In December, Peters petitioned for disbarment over an undisclosed…
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June 12, 2009
ROM – Bill Luckett calls Delta Independents, Republicans “racists”
ROM – Bill Luckett calls Delta Independents, Republicans “racists” Bill Luckett, an attorney and owner of of the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, has opened the “Progress for Mississippi” PAC to get ready to run for Governor. In not the best way to start a campaign, he has said anyone in the Delta who…
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June 12, 2009
War-funding deal reached, photos could be released, coast gets $500 million
War-funding deal reached, photos could be released, coast gets $500 million President Barack Obama would be allowed for the next four months to order Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States to face trial under a compromise reached Thursday by House and Senate negotiators struggling with a war-funding bill. Transferring detainees from the U.S. detention…
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June 12, 2009
Atlantic – Federalism And The Changing Politics Of Tobacco
Federalism And The Changing Politics Of Tobacco For those of us who covered the tobacco wars of the 1990s, it’s hard to believe how much has changed. Back then, tobacco companies, fearful of lawsuits, were eager to forge a national legal settlement, passed by Congress, that would give them immunity from lawsuits. Prominent trial lawyers,…
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June 12, 2009
Bill Luckett announces formation of Progress for Mississippi
Bill Luckett announces formation of Progress for Mississippi Clarksdale attorney and businessman Bill Luckett took the first step in throwing his hat in the ring for a run at the 2011 campaign for Mississippi governor. Luckett, who owns a blues club and a restaurant in Clarksdale with veteran actor Morgan Freeman, announced Thursday that he…
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June 12, 2009
Contingency fee contract info in Mississippi vs. MSFT
A few details about the case. It was filed in Hinds County Chancery Court. Local litigator Brent Hazzard signed a contingency agreement with Attorney General Jim Hood for the Microsoft case. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP & Susman Godfrey were associated by Hazzard for the case. The Boies Law Firm features David Boies, who was…
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June 12, 2009
Mississippi To Receive Millions In Settlement With Microsoft
Mississippi To Receive Millions In Settlement With Microsoft Mississippi has reached a multi-million dollar anti-trust settlement with software giant Microsoft, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today (Thursday). The settlement order, worth up to $100 million, between the State of Mississippi and Microsoft was approved by Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Denise Owens today and settles…
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June 11, 2009
PSC Commish Presley selected as a Board member by NRRI after PSC retained them in March
On June 10, 2009, MS Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley was selected to the board of the National Regulatory Research Institute. What was not cited in the release is that the Public Service Commission earlier this year recently retained NRRI for a six figure sum to evaluate Mississippi Power’s proposed clean coal plant in Kemper…
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June 11, 2009
Melick: It’s time UA president called an athletic department intervention
Melick: It’s time UA president called an athletic department intervention It’s time to admit it. The University of Alabama has a problem. It’s time for an intervention, time for somebody — university President Robert Witt, perhaps — to bring the entire athletics family into a room and say, “This has got to stop.” Once again,…
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June 11, 2009
Billon dollar set backs for Jim Hood
Billion Dollar Set Backs for Jim Hood Last week was a bad one for Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. First, Hood lost before a three judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals over a billion dollar lawsuit accusing Memphis of stealing Mississippi’s water. This case is also interesting because Public Service Commissioner Brandon…
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June 11, 2009
MS Dem Exe Dir Sam Hall calls for debate on gun control
A real debate on gun control I think Jim Craig made an excellent point on gun control in light of the DC shootings and Justice Scalia’s recent opinion on DC gun laws: “How about a movement to amend the Constitution to explicitly provide for control of non-hunting, non-pistol weapons? Let’s have an open debate with…
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Daniel Tyson
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May 6, 2026
Job training life-affirming for inmates in MAGCOR programs
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 6, 2026
State agencies team up to promote maternal mental health care
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Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press
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May 6, 2026
Takeaways from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan: Trump’s flex pays off and Democrats win special election
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2026
Mississippi companies invited to participate in 2026 Southeastern U.S.–Canadian Provinces Conference
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Frank Corder
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April 22, 2026
Corderill investing $100 million at Meridian data center campus
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Frank Corder
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April 17, 2026
Walmart announces plan to remodel 19 Mississippi stores
Culture
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Susan Marquez
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May 6, 2026
Canton Flea Market returns for 62nd year
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Alistair Begg
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May 6, 2026
A word to children
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Meredith Biesinger
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May 5, 2026
Where the Wild Things Grow: Inside Maypop Art’s garage studio
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Christy Hovanetz
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May 6, 2026
Mississippi is raising the bar, and that’s a really good thing for kids
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Russ Latino
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May 5, 2026
Mississippi faces pressure to redistrict before congressional midterms, but also real world constraints
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Susan Crabtree
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May 1, 2026
U.S. Secret Service Chief says Hilton site was ‘set up perfectly,’ critics disagree
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