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December 11, 2008
Thompson/Taylor vote for UAW Bailout . . . Pickering & Childers vote NO
Auto Bailout Vote Democratic 205 20 11 Republican 32 150 1 15 Independent TOTALS 237 170 1 26 Thomas 12/10/8
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December 11, 2008
GOP suit alleges poll problems
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/10/8 Mississippi Republicans filed suit Tuesday against the Leflore County Election Commission and a Greenwood poll manager, alleging inappropriate and illegal activities on Election Day. Brad White, chairman of the state Republican Party, said poll watchers were not allowed to observe the Nov. 4 election there. The lawsuit also alleges voters in Leflore…
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December 11, 2008
U.S. District Court gets nearly 340 pleas for leniency for Joey Langston
U.S. District Court gets nearly 340 pleas for leniency for Joey Langston Four reporters, who asked to do so, got a look Wednesday at the nearly 340 letters to Chief Judge Michael P. Mills at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oxford. Childers, a Langston friend and business partner for many years, wrote that he was…
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December 11, 2008
Underperforming schools law discussed
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/10/8 State education officials and lawmakers are continuing to talk about potentially controversial legislation affecting the state’s underperforming schools – particularly removing school board members and superintendents. The discussion is aimed at educating legislators about the proposed Children First Act of 2009 before they come back in session in January, said House Education…
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December 11, 2008
Jackson wants $560M
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/10/8 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton has submitted dozens of “ready to go” projects that could be funded by a new stimulus package promoted by Democratic leaders in Congress and President-elect Barack Obama. About 170 projects for sewer, road and other public works proposals range from improvements to Jackson’s airport to renovations to Murrah…
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December 11, 2008
Judge says Melton, ex-bodyguard will be tried together
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/9/8 In an order filed today, U.S. District Court Judge Dan Jordan has again denied a request for a separate trial for Mayor Frank Melton’s former bodyguard. Jackson Police Detective Michael Recio, one of two long-time security guards for the mayor, last month renewed his request to be tried separately from the mayor…
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December 11, 2008
U.S. District Court gets nearly 340 pleas for leniency for Joey Langston
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/10/8 U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, doctors, Prentiss County officials and hundreds of others have written letters to the U.S. District Court, urging mercy for their friend and colleague, former Booneville attorney Joey Langston. Langston faces up to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to influence a…
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December 11, 2008
Miss. giving away one free year of college tuition
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/10/8 The cost of a college degree could be lower for a lucky Mississippi family. The state’s prepaid college tuition program is giving away one free year of senior college tuition, State Treasurer Tate Reeves said today. A drawing to determine the winner will be held on on Dec. 18. The winner will…
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December 11, 2008
NAACP, MS Center for Justice, others sue HUD over MS port recovery money
HUD sued over Katrina fund diversion A group of public interest lawyers sued the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Wednesday, seeking to stop the state of Mississippi from diverting $600 million in federal hurricane-relief funds intended for housing to a massive expansion of the state’s port facilities. Separately, msnbc.com has obtained a…
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December 11, 2008
CL – Letters for lawyer facing sentencing call him ‘generous’
Letters for lawyer facing sentencing call him ‘generous’ Childers is among those praising Langston’s generosity. “No one in my forty nine years in Prentiss County has had greater impact on so many people that I personally know than Joey Langston,” Childers wrote. “He has been a friend to all and an enemy to none. His…
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December 11, 2008
Letter blip from US Representative Travis Childers (D) in support of convicted felon Joey Langston
This was provided to YP from one of the sources who viewed the letters directly, and confirmed by another who viewed it as well. From a letter dated 1/22/08 to Judge Mills in support of Joey Langston from now US Representative Travis Childers (D – MS01) . . . . “This is not a man…
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December 11, 2008
NMC reports US Rep Travis Childers wrote he’d trade places in jail if he could with Joey Langston
Langston letters– early report from comments Lydialaw, who has seen the Langston sentencing letters, writes: Well they weren’t that exciting. I just got back. Most interesting to me was the letter from Travis Childers who said he would go to jail in Langston’s place if he could. 320 letters in all. Mostly from attorneys and…
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Jeremy Pittari
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September 9, 2025
Mississippi State Health Officer touts importance of vaccine mandates after Florida roll back
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Daniel Tyson
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September 9, 2025
NAACP alleges state withheld millions that could have helped Jackson’s water system
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September 9, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: September 9, 2025
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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September 5, 2025
Hiring stalls with US companies reluctant to expand in an uncertain economic landscape
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Lynne Jeter
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September 3, 2025
Hood Industries invests $245 million in Waynesboro expansion
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Lynne Jeter
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August 29, 2025
Tri-state partnership boosts South’s automaker bid
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September 9, 2025
Mississippi State fined $500,000 by SEC for field storming following against Arizona State
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Meredith Biesinger
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September 9, 2025
Mississippi’s Two Museums: Step inside, feel the story
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Alistair Begg
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September 9, 2025
What are you waiting for?
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Russ Latino
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September 8, 2025
Do we have to ‘distrust the science’ to Make America Healthy Again?
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Russ Latino
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September 7, 2025
The race for U.S. Senate in 2026 may get ugly, but the result is almost certain
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Roger Wicker
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September 5, 2025
Taiwan has resolved to live free
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