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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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December 10, 2008
Will Sens. Cochran and Wicker join GOP filibuster attempt on UAW . . . ahem . . . Big 3 bailout?
Yes: More voices for a GOP filibuster of the UAW bailout We’ve got Shelby. We’ve got Ensign. And now, just got this e-mail from GOP Sen. Jim DeMint’s office: “Ensign is exactly right. This bailout will hurt taxpayers, it won’t help the economy, and it will prevent these car companies from becoming competitive. The only…
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December 10, 2008
MSGOP Chair Brad White on WAPT’s morning show regarding Leflore County election lawsuit
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Frank Corder
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April 8, 2026
Governor approves second disaster loan program for cities, counties effected by winter storm
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 8, 2026
Student cell phone use bans fail to find support in Mississippi House, Senate
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Daniel Tyson
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April 8, 2026
Dept. of Public Safety set to consolidate divisions, providing more strategic collaboration and cost savings
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2026
Channel South, $105 million mixed use development, aims to transform Gulfport’s downtown
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Frank Corder
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March 26, 2026
DG Foods announces $1.19 million expansion
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Frank Corder
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March 25, 2026
AeroShield Alliance locating headquarters in Mississippi
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Will Graves, Associated Press
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April 8, 2026
Pirates sign teenage shortstop Konnor Griffin to a 9-year deal worth at least $140 million
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Richelle Putnam
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April 8, 2026
Where the Light Falls: The landscape of Marshall Bouldin
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Alistair Begg
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April 8, 2026
More than a name
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Russ Latino
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April 8, 2026
The truth about ACA subsidies after the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
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Sid Salter
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April 8, 2026
A new take on an old question about who Mississippians trust with life-altering decisions
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Russ Latino
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April 3, 2026
Lawmakers owe Reeves a ‘thank you’ for stopping Medicaid expansion
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