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March 17, 2008
Legislature considers diverse marriage proposals
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/17/8 Both chambers of the Mississippi Legislature have passed bills dealing with marriage. But other than both having the word marriage in them – the bills have little in common. The Senate passed new legislation that would create what are referred to as covenant marriages that would be harder to…
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March 17, 2008
Medicaid-fix debate heats up house bill 1013
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/17/8 If a bill that would hike the cigarette tax dies in a Senate committee this week, many believe a special session could be called to deal with a $90 million shortfall Medicaid is facing. House Bill 1013 is the only piece of surviving legislation that would allow lawmakers to either raise the…
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March 17, 2008
DJ – Scruggs trial ties together a complex web of cases
Scruggs trial ties together a complex web of cases If you want a quick explanation of the ins and outs of the legal situations involving Oxford mega-lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, here’s an explainer. Friday, Scruggs and lawyer colleague Sidney Backstrom of Oxford pleaded guilty to one county of conspiring to bribe Circuit Judge Henry L.…
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March 17, 2008
Deadline looms for measures
Deadline looms for measures Clarion Ledger 3/17/8
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March 17, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, March 17
Scruggs Nation, March 17 Now, come on here, with all due respect, Scruggs “thought he couldn’t trust the system”? He got nailed in the Luckey lawsuit for holding back on a partner. What does it mean, under those circumstances, to say “He thought he couldn’t trust the system”? He lost a fair fight, so he…
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March 17, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – Scruggs: Notes from the Transcript
Scruggs: Notes from the Transcript A Bribe? No! An Earwig!: At one point, the following colloquy broke out between Scruggs and Judge Neal Biggers: THE COURT : All right. Mr. Scruggs, then, did you do what the prosecutor just said you did, as far as your acts in this charge are concerned? THE DEFENDANT :…
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March 17, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, post-Ides of March, pre-St. Patrick’s Day edition
Scruggs Nation, post-Ides of March, pre-St. Patrick’s Day edition So it wasn’t just pride or arrogance, it also had something to do with the special conditions found in Mississippi. As we’ve talked about before, not every legal endeavor Scruggs engaged in was successful. We can ask ourselves — has he had any successes at all,…
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March 17, 2008
Defendant in DUI death to be tried 3 years later
Defendant in DUI death to be tried 3 years later The taped conversations have recently been made public. It was within those transcripts that South found part of her answer why her husband’s accused killer had not gone to trial in November. South said her niece found the transcripts on the Internet. South read over…
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March 17, 2008
LNL – Hood: Federal justice effective against Scruggs
Hood: Federal justice effective against Scruggs “The federal government effectively used its wiretap authority to prosecute a rare judicial bribery case,” Hood said. “It would be an effective deterrent in other white collar crime cases, if the Legislature would give wiretap authority to state prosecutors.” Hood has drawn criticism since the November indictment of Scruggs,…
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March 17, 2008
WLOX – Mississippi Lawyer Speak Out On Scruggs’ Guilty Plea
Mississippi Lawyer Speak Out On Scruggs’ Guilty Plea “The truth of the matter is the system worked. They did wrong, and they got caught,” says Criminal Defense Attorney Tim Holleman. “This should prove to the folks of our state that no illegal or unethical activity will be tolerated,” says Attorney Quentin Whitwell. “Short of violence,…
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March 17, 2008
BRUMFIELD – A close-up look from the courtroom
A close-up look from the courtroom Friday, when I came into the third-floor courtroom, Dickie was seated on the second row, his wife on his left, his lawyer on his right, then co-defendant Sidney Backstrom next to the lawyer. It didn’t look right. Mrs. Scruggs was not a usual sight in the courthouse with her…
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March 17, 2008
Second Primary election slated April 1: House seats up for grabs
Second Primary election slated April 1: House seats up for grabs In the 1st District, returns show 96,171 Democrats voted in the primary while 43,931 voted in the GOP primary. In the 3rd District, 81,031 Democrats voted in the primary while 66,693 Republicans voted. But how many of those voters will return on April 1?…
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Jeremy Pittari
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November 25, 2025
Mississippi cracking down on non-English speaking commercial truckers
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Daniel Tyson
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November 25, 2025
Colom champions tax increase “for Mississippians to continue to have health insurance”
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Sophie Bates, Associated Press
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November 25, 2025
New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site
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Frank Corder
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November 21, 2025
Ingalls completes sea trials for USS Ted Stevens
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Daniel Tyson
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November 20, 2025
Amazon investing $3 billion in Warren County data center campus
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Daniel Tyson
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November 18, 2025
Toyota investing $125 million in Blue Springs plant
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Robert St. John
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November 25, 2025
Robert St. John’s Thanksgiving memories
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Alistair Begg
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November 25, 2025
In this world for good
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Robert St. John
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November 24, 2025
Time well spent
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Kimberly Ross
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November 21, 2025
The political right needs to exorcize its Fuentes’ demons
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Sid Salter
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November 19, 2025
Term limits: Why small rural states like Mississippi lose when seniority is forced out
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Jill Ford
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November 18, 2025
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