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January 7, 2009
OVERLAWYERED – Break in “Scruggs II” Mississippi scandal?
Break in “Scruggs II” Mississippi scandal? Ed Peters, the former Hinds County (Jackson) prosecutor who’s been a central figure in the still up-in-the-air Peters-DeLaughter branch of the Scruggs scandals, has turned in his law license (via) amid much Mississippi speculation that he is cooperating with prosecutors and that other developments are imminent. NMC at Folo…
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January 7, 2009
Electricity prices go down despite Jim Hood lawsuit
Lower Fuel Costs Shrink Entergy Mississippi Bills Nearly 14 Percent Reduction effective through first quarter of 2009 Jackson, Miss. – Thanks to a continued decline in natural gas prices, customers of Entergy Mississippi, Inc. will ring in the new year with lower electric bills. From January through March, the typical residential bill will drop another…
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January 7, 2009
LOA – Scruggs II: Ed Peters Surrenders Law License, Forfeits Alleged Bribe Proceeds
Scruggs II: Ed Peters Surrenders Law License, Forfeits Alleged Bribe Proceeds The Daily Journal has more here on the underlying complaint. Nothing has been announced yet, but it’s apparent that Peters has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. This means that the hammer is about to drop on Judge Bobby DeLaughter and (again) on…
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January 7, 2009
More Funding Proposed For Crime Lab
More Funding Proposed For Crime Lab “Both the defense bar and prosecutors agree that we have to do something to fix our crime lab,” said Jim Hood. Hood formed a task force to study Mississippi’s crime lab and compare it to labs in neighboring states. The task force recommends the state double its funding to…
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January 7, 2009
NMC – Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts)
Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts) The drama started first thing with WLBT in Jackson reporting that Ed Peters had surrendered his law license. As we noted in an update to the post reporting the WLBT account, YallPolitics quickly put up the docket entry from the Mississippi Supreme…
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January 7, 2009
SALTER – Bryant to face growing scrutiny from within GOP right wing
Bryant to face growing scrutiny from within GOP right wing While still maintaining an extremely cordial public relationship with the Barbour administration, it’s undeniable that Bryant faces the delicate task of slowly beginning to cut Barbour loose and push his own political agenda in the Senate if he is to seize the mantle of leadership…
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January 7, 2009
Metro area has money wish list
Metro area has money wish list Here’s the breakdown of state and federal requests: Jackson The city is asking for about $560 million from the federal government for infrastructure projects but so far has a lone item on its state wish list. The city wants the option to raise the sales tax by 1 percent.…
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January 7, 2009
Councilman: Mayor has fluid in his lungs
Councilman: Mayor has fluid in his lungs Mayor Frank Melton returned to the hospital over the weekend after complaining that fluid had built up in his lungs, making it difficult to breathe, Councilman Frank Bluntson said Tuesday. Bluntson, along with Melton’s family physician, Dr. Robert Smith, drove the mayor to St. Dominic Hospital on Saturday.…
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January 7, 2009
Jerry Mitchell piece on Ed Peters and Bobby DeLaughter
Ex-DA turns in license Former longtime Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters, identified as a participant in an alleged bribery scheme, has turned in his bar license in a move legal experts say suggests he has struck a deal. Federal authorities are investigating allegations he schemed with associates of imprisoned former lawyer Dickie Scruggs to…
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January 7, 2009
YP – US moves to seize $425,000 in Ed Peters ill-gotten gains . . . on 12/31!
Only in the Dickie Scruggs world can the United States Government actually sue $425,000 in cash. But it has happened. Complaint Subsequent Order In the case styled 3:08CV137, the US Government vs. $425,000 in US Currency, the US Attorney filed on New Year’s Eve to seize it after it had been forfeited by Ed Peters,…
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January 7, 2009
DJ – U.S. wants money it claims Joey Langston transferred to Ed Peters in plot
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. wants money it claims Langston transferred to Peters in plot Former Hinds district attorney Edward J. Peters is formally accused of conspiring to corrupt a sitting Mississippi circuit judge in a U.S. District Court document filed Dec. 31, the Daily Journal has learned. The document came to light Tuesday in a records…
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January 7, 2009
DM – “Turning in his (Ed Peters’) bar card was likely part of the agreement”
Alleged Scruggs II conspiritor submitts ‘irrevocable resignation’ Peters allegedly accepted $50,000 of tax free money from Scruggs, Balducci testified last spring. When Delaughter ruled in Scruggs favor, Scruggs gave $1.5 million to Langston to split with Peters and Patterson, part of Langston’s guilty plea says. A lawyer close to the case has said Peters has…
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May 5, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: May 5, 2025
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Maxwell appointed USDA State Director by President Trump
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Senator Wicker on Trump’s budget request: President’s advisors “were apparently not listening”
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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Parrish Alford
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May 5, 2025
Selmon under pressure to protect Mississippi State’s baseball legacy with next hire
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Robert St. John
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May 5, 2025
A spring of celebrations
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 5, 2025
The storm of God’s wrath
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Sid Salter
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April 30, 2025
Is a new era in federal natural disaster relief something Mississippi can easily navigate?
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Bill Crawford
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April 27, 2025
Model Utah program considered by legislature unfairly denigrated
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Courtney Taylor
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Inside Mississippi’s workforce reset: Reduce waste, cut overhead, create results
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