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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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February 12, 2009
Jackson mayor owes $14K in property tax
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/11/9 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, who is currently on trial for alleged civil rights violations, has not paid his 2008 property taxes, which were due 10 days ago. The mayor owes $13,098.43 on his property at 2 Carter’s Grove and $1,340 on several other parcels he owns, according to the Hinds County Tax…
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February 12, 2009
You gotta admire the date pick
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 2/12/9 Federal court usually is a pretty dignified place. When you’re an attorney, a heightened sense of decorum seems inherent. When you’re the defendant, it’s the Big Time of trouble. Security is high and these folks, however friendly, aren’t messing around. But somewhere in this sometimes austere place of…
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February 12, 2009
DeLaughter in court on criminal charges
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 The former prosecutor who made a worldwide name for himself for putting Klansman Byron De La Beckwith behind bars will be in court today, accused of ruling in favor of the former lawyer once called Mississippi’s “king of torts.” Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter is slated to appear in federal court…
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February 12, 2009
House passes photo ID to vote
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/12/9 The state House, in contentious debate spanning nearly five hours Wednesday, passed legislation requiring people to display a photo identification to vote. The bill, which passed 77-44, in many ways was a stinging defeat for the Democratic House leaders who had tried to craft a compromise that would allow…
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June 16, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: June 16, 2025
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Frank Corder
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June 13, 2025
Nearly 280 from Mississippi National Guard deployed to D.C. in support of Saturday’s military parade
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Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press
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June 13, 2025
Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
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Lynne Jeter
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June 15, 2025
Will Bradham expands business his father needed
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Hiring in the US slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May
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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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Parrish Alford
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June 16, 2025
Does House settlement mean stability or more change for college athletics?
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Robert St. John
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June 16, 2025
A long thank you note
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 16, 2025
Slow to speak
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David Rives
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June 16, 2025
The designer of fatherhood: How God’s character shapes earthly Dads
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Russ Latino
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June 15, 2025
A house divided against itself cannot stand
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Lesley Davis
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June 12, 2025
A victory for sorority sisters: The DOE affirmed what every 18-year-old pledge already knew
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