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January 9, 2009
YP – Metro One strikes again catching urban terrorists impersonating and then evading police
The Clarion Ledger covered yet another Metro One success story today. This time, the urban terrorists were tooling around with cop paraphernalia robbing people in a stolen car. One of them was even wearing a tracking anklet . . . that’s doin’ it straight up thug-style. From the article . . . Precinct Five officers…
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January 9, 2009
Jim Hood vs. Entergy . . . ALL of the story
Certainly Jim “Friends and Family” Hood was successful in grabbing some headlines yesterday, but at YP, we know that all that glitters is certainly not gold. If you need any further evidence, ask yourself why a rash of crooked lawyers have been sentenced to federal prison, yet our state justice system, headed by Hood, hasn’t…
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January 9, 2009
New state Supreme Court justice wants Crime Lab funds
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/9/9 New state Supreme Court Chief Justice William Waller Jr. says he wants the Legislature to adequately fund the state Crime Lab to provide a system for preserving DNA evidence in all felony cases. Waller was sworn in Thursday as the 35th chief justice of the high court before an overflow crowd at…
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January 9, 2009
JATRAN in trouble
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/9/9 If it weren’t for JATRAN’s Route 13, Annette Stewart would not have her independence. She catches the bus most weekdays from her home in Presidential Hills and rides it to relatives’ houses or to run errands. “I get up every morning and I catch the bus, and I do what I need…
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January 9, 2009
Beef plant conviction sends man to prison instead of college
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/9/9 A Georgia businessman who irked a federal judge by asking to be sentenced to community service with the community and junior colleges was sentenced Thursday to eight months in federal prison for making an illegal campaign contribution to former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. Nixon Cawood is one of three former executives charged…
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January 9, 2009
House to vote on cig tax hike
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/9/9 Mississippi lawmakers began trying to raise new revenue Thursday with a proposed 82-cents-a-pack cigarette tax increase as state agencies prepared for deeper budget cuts that could affect more services, including Medicaid and schools. Legislation raising the 18-cent tobacco tax to $1 per pack cleared a key House committee hours after Gov. Haley…
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January 9, 2009
Utility: Contract sales led to refund
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/9/9 Entergy Corp. has acknowledged in a letter to state regulators that it sold power to Mississippi in 2005 from a subsidiary under a fuel contract that years earlier led to a refund of $72 million to Louisiana customers. The letter is the latest development in the legal battle between Entergy and Mississippi…
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January 9, 2009
Supreme Court upholds MDOC firings in 2004
The Hattiesburg American, 1/8/9 The removal of job protections for employees of the Mississippi Department of Corrections in 2004 as a cost-cutting tool was constitutional, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by former MDOC employee Gary Hemba, who was one of 160 workers fired by MDOC in 2004.…
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January 9, 2009
Ga. man sentenced in beef plant scandal
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/8/9 Georgia businessman who irked a federal judge by asking for community service was sentenced Thursday to eight months in federal prison for making an illegal campaign contribution to former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills in north Mississippi sentenced Nixon Cawood Jr. on Thursday after telling the disgraced…
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January 9, 2009
House Dems want options for cigarette tax funds
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/8/9 Some Democrats in the Mississippi House are backing off their insistence that a cigarette tax hike be earmarked for Medicaid, citing a need for compromise as the state tries to generate new revenue. State Rep. George Flaggs, author of a bill that proposes using a tobacco tax hike for the health care…
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January 9, 2009
Tebow’s Performance a Perfect Ending (or Maybe Not)
Tebow’s Performance a Perfect Ending (or Maybe Not) If ever they should make a movie about a college career that in the northern part of this state is already the stuff of swampland legend, let me suggest Brendan Fraser for the lead and that Hollywood be allowed one courtesy fiction: Tim Tebow’s 2007 Heisman Trophy…
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January 9, 2009
House panel clears $1/pack tobacco tax-hike bill
House panel clears tobacco tax-hike bill House Bill 364 cleared a key committee today. It still needs approval from other House lawmakers before it heads to the Senate for consideration. The bill would increase the state’s 18-cent tobacco tax to $1 per pack. It would generate more than $200 million dollars for the state’s general…
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November 10, 2025
Lawmakers consider ways to address Mississippi’s high infant mortality rate
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Frank Corder
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November 10, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court to decide Mississippi’s post-election mail-in ballot case
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November 10, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: November 10, 2025
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Daniel Tyson
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October 30, 2025
Mississippi senators hear concerns from farmers as state’s agriculture industry struggles
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Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press
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October 29, 2025
Federal Reserve cuts key rate as government shutdown clouds economic outlook
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October 27, 2025
Delta Grain investing $3.76 million to expand Sidon operations
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Robert St. John
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November 10, 2025
Where are we going next?
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Alistair Begg
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November 10, 2025
I will strengthen you
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Doug Feinberg, Associated Press
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November 7, 2025
NCAA revokes eligibility of 6 more college basketball players as it continues sports betting probe
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Roger Wicker
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November 7, 2025
Every human being deserves the freedom to practice their faith as they see fit
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Philip Wegmann
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November 6, 2025
Johnson’s election postmortem: 2026 – not 2025 – will buoy GOP hopes
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Sid Salter
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November 5, 2025
Incoming ‘silver tsunami’ of seniors will strain federal and state government resources
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