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February 4, 2008
YP – Hood accepts $400K from Scruggs/Langston funnelled via DAGA 90 days after ‘informant’ letter
Jim Hood accepted $300K loosely funneled through DAGA within 90 days of his now infamous “confidential informant” letter that was written on July 16, 2007. That letter was largely viewed to provide safe harbor to Scruggs after Judge Acker in Alabama determined that it was otherwise a clear breach of a written order from his…
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February 4, 2008
Hood: State Farm lawsuit based on ‘lies, speculation and innuendo’
Hood: State Farm lawsuit based on ‘lies, speculation and innuendo’ The court battle heated up when State Farm began urging a judge to allow the company to question Scruggs under oath. Hood has called Scruggs his “confidential informant” and has said Scruggs provided allegedly incriminating information about State Farm. “General Hood is clearly concerned that…
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February 4, 2008
CL – Grisham: ‘Got to get away from elected judges’
Grisham: ‘Got to get away from elected judges’ “I know Dickie,” Grisham said. “It’s hard for me to believe he would get involved in a bribery scam like this. And until a jury finds him guilty or he pleads guilty, I’m not going to believe it.” He cited the Duke lacrosse case, where all of…
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February 4, 2008
FOLO – The Legal Process (or not) in the Scruggs Cases: A Brief Editorial Comment
The Legal Process (or not) in the Scruggs Cases: A Brief Editorial Comment FOLO 2/3/8
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February 4, 2008
Consider Judge Lackey: How Mississippians choose the judiciary
Consider Judge Lackey: How Mississippians choose the judiciary Thank God for men like Judge Henry Lackey! Lackey has served as a circuit judge in the 3rd Judicial District of Mississippi for years. He has stood for election numerous times and has never been defeated. Lackey is as unpretentious as he is intellectual, and as honest…
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February 4, 2008
SALTER – Bloggers seriously candid, but anonymous
Bloggers seriously candid, but anonymous I blog under my real name. The readers “comment” under such pseudonyms as “bellesouth” or “statedawg” or “koolaid” and are seriously candid in their reviews. “Bellesouth” takes several whacks at me a day. They know who they’re talking to and I haven’t a clue who they are. One thing I’ve…
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February 4, 2008
CL – Bribery scandal impact historic
Bribery scandal impact historic Wiseman said the repercussions of this scandal have delivered a “very damaging blow to the Democratic Party.” Campaign contributions from trial lawyers to the party have largely dried up, he said. On another level, Wiseman said, the charges against Scruggs could have played a role in keeping former Attorney General Mike…
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February 3, 2008
LOA – A Different Kind Of Super Bowl Party: Scruggs Ordered To Submit To Questioning In Civil Depo
A Different Kind Of Super Bowl Party: Scruggs Ordered To Submit To Questioning In Civil Deposition The problem Scruggs faces is not uncommon among white-collar criminal defendants, targets, and subjects. He has a right to invoke the privilege against self-incrimination becasue of his potential criminal exposure and this invocation cannot be used against him in…
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February 3, 2008
YP – Fallout from 2/1 in Oxford – Scruggs Depo Notice and Transcript of Court Session
State Farm scored a pretty clear victory in an Oxford Federal Courthouse yesterday against Jim Hood and Dickie Scruggs. The result of the proceedings was that Dickie Scruggs will stand for deposition on Monday morning February 4 at 8:00 a.m. in his offices in Oxford. State Farm also filed this morning a transcript of the…
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February 2, 2008
WHITCOLLAR – The Many Battles of Dickie Scruggs
The Many Battles of Dickie Scruggs Recently, a third front has opened up for Scruggs, this time a civil suit filed by State Farm accusing Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood of conspiring with Scruggs to threaten the insurer with criminal charges if it did not settle Hurricane Katrina litigation brought by — you guessed it…
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February 2, 2008
SNS – Scruggs and Co: A recent giving history – $400K to DAGA in 2007!
Scruggs and Co: A recent giving history “Super” trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs apparently loves to give to political causes. So does “not quite as super, but still really generous” trial lawyer Joey Langston. In recent reports just made public it’s been revealed that Mr. Scruggs’s law firm, The Scruggs Law Firm, gave a grand total…
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February 2, 2008
Feds not intervening in insurance case
Feds not intervening in insurance case A federal magistrate in Gulfport, Miss., set a deadline Thursday for the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene in the case, which attorney Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs and other lawyers filed more than a year before he was charged in November with trying to bribe a Mississippi judge. On Thursday,…
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April 9, 2026
Magnolia Mornings: April 9, 2026
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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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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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Marilyn Tinnin
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April 9, 2026
The Mississippi Gift Company spreads the best of the Magnolia State across the globe
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Alistair Begg
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April 9, 2026
Justice is satisfied
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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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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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