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February 10, 2009
Council expected to OK roadwork plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/10/9 Jackson City Council members are expected to sign off on the city’s $26.2 million road resurfacing plan at a meeting today. The plan calls for roadwork on about 130 roads spread throughout all seven wards. It includes work on West Street, Ridgewood Road, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Old Canton Road.…
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February 10, 2009
Lott gives $250K for Ole Miss scholarship
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/10/9 Former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott has donated $250,000 to the University of Mississippi to a scholarship endowment to honor his wife, Tricia. Recipients of the Patricia Thompson Lott Scholarship are Lott Leadership Institute students who are incoming freshmen from Mississippi with demonstrated leadership abilities. Lott scholars are required to pursue a major…
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February 10, 2009
Stimulus bills come with no guarantees, many questions
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 2/10/9 The rush in Washington for the new Congress to do something about the economy will have consequences in Mississippi. The rub is that no one can say for sure whether, on balance, adding debt will provide the spark that commerce is believed to need. Thad Cochran and Roger…
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February 10, 2009
Barbour encounters unexpected Senate roadblock on Medicaid tax bill
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 2/10/9 Gov. Haley Barbour has had some well-documented victories in the legislative process, and some setbacks as well. But perhaps his biggest defeat of his tenure as governor came last week during a meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The setback was stunning not only because of the health…
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February 10, 2009
Eminent domain: Necessary tool for good
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 2/10/9 Misplaced political hysteria over a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision that broadened the uses for which a government entity can take property for public use has a strange coalition working feverishly to neuter Mississippi’s reasonable, necessary eminent domain laws. Eminent domain recognizes that some “taking” of property is for the public…
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February 10, 2009
House OKs crackdown on low-performing school districts
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/10/9 The state Board of Education would be able to remove superintendents, school board members, administrators and teachers under legislation that passed the Mississippi House on Monday. The legislation, called the Children’s First Act, has broad-based support from business groups, such as the Mississippi Economic Council, and education advocacy groups.…
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February 10, 2009
Scruggs to face judge in Aberdeen today over bribery scheme
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/10/9 Richard “Dickie” Scruggs spent the past four nights in his adopted hometown of Oxford, but it wasn’t a social call. Once perhaps America’s most famous trial lawyer, the 62-year-old will stand before U.S. District Senior Judge Glen H. Davidson at 1 p.m. today in Aberdeen to learn his fate…
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February 10, 2009
Former Jackson crematorium operator arrested
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/9/9 The Attorney General’s Office tonight arrested former crematory operator Mark Seepe following a seven-count indictment by a Hinds County grand jury. Seepe, owner of Mark Seepe Funeral Directors & Crematorium, is charged with conversion. He allegedly took payments for pre-need funerals and “knowingly and willfully misapplied or converted the pre-need funds to…
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February 10, 2009
Hosemann plugs early voting in Miss.
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/9/9 Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said he sees early voting as a growing national trend that could encourage more voter participation and clear up some issues Mississippi has seen with absentee voting in recent years. In a meeting with The Clarion-Ledger editorial board this afternoon, Hosemann plugged his positions on early voting…
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February 10, 2009
Prof: Hood testimony sets stage
Prof: Hood testimony sets stage Mississippi College law professor Matt Steffey said the prosecution’s goal for the first day of what is likely to be a two-week trial was to establish its credibility and begin telling a story. Hood’s testimony did both, he said. “It’s important to paint a picture about why the jury should…
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February 10, 2009
Dickie Scruggs guilty plea expected
Scruggs guilty plea expected Scruggs is serving five years in prison for his part in a 2007 scheme that led to the payment of a $40,000 bribe to a Lafayette County judge hearing a legal fees dispute regarding Hurricane Katrina litigation. After that plea, a default judgment was entered against Scruggs. Scruggs is expected to…
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February 10, 2009
Frank Melton accused of witness tampering
Melton accused of witness tampering A federal judge is expected to decide today whether to revoke Jackson Mayor Frank Melton’s bond after federal prosecutors say Melton served his own subpoena on a witness and possibly tampered with another. Those revelations came Monday at the end of the first day of testimony in the federal civil…
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Russ Latino
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June 29, 2026
Hinds County DA Jody Owens pleads guilty in Jackson bribery case, resigns from office
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Frank Corder
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June 29, 2026
Nine Mississippi sites listed in National Register of Historic Places so far in 2026
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Frank Corder
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June 29, 2026
From teacher pay to illegal immigration: New laws set to take effect in Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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June 23, 2026
Keytronic announces $8.89 million expansion in Corinth
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Frank Corder
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June 17, 2026
Gould Industries locating in southwest Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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June 16, 2026
U.S. Army contracts with General Atomics for long-range maneuvering projectile program
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Robert St. John
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June 29, 2026
Yonderlust, Mississippi
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Alistair Begg
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June 29, 2026
Saved by sacrifice
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Matt Friedeman
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June 28, 2026
Walking is what we do as Christians
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Russ Latino
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June 26, 2026
An American Inheritance for Everyone
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Russ Latino
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June 25, 2026
An American Inheritance: The Longest Surviving Constitution on the Planet
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Sid Salter
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June 24, 2026
Neshoba County Fair continues to evolve, but the core family principle abides
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