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December 11, 2007
BREAKING – CL and SUN HERALD Report that Joey Langston’s Office Raided
Joey Langston’s Office Raided Clarion Ledger Story FBI agents went inside the office this morning of Booneville lawyer Joey Langston, an attorney for multimillionaire Mississippi lawyer trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs. “They are executing a search warrant,” said Deborah Madden, spokeswoman for the FBI in Jackson. Sun Herald Story The FBI served a search warrant today…
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December 10, 2007
Scruggs Nation, Day 12: the investigation widens
Scruggs Nation, Day 12: the investigation widens I want to point out one more paragraph from the story before moving on to highlight the point at the end of this post. Here is the graf: Working the political and legal machinery in Mississippi isn’t new to Mr. Scruggs. In his deposition with Mr. Merkel in…
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December 10, 2007
Candidate wants race called
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/8/7 Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd follows the law, Democrat Adrienne Wooten says she’ll be named District 71 state representative and the harangue over the office can be laid to rest. Kidd will rule Monday on Wooten’s request.
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December 10, 2007
3Q’s with Phil Bryant, Lt. gov.-elect
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/9/7 As he prepares to take office, Phil Bryant discusses his transition from auditor to lieutenant governor, and his priorities for the upcoming legislative session with the Journal’s Bobby Harrison.
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December 10, 2007
Overlawyered: Scruggs indictment VIII
Overlawyered, 12/10/7 A report in today’s New York Times advances the ball on a number of fronts: Per an unidentified official, “federal prosecutors have asked the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section to examine whether Mr. Scruggs has engaged in multiple bribery attempts of local judges.” The Times interviews Clarksdale, Miss. attorney Charles M. Merkel Jr.,…
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December 10, 2007
Senate appointment Barbour’s biggest clout yet
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 12/9/7 Haley Barbour has leveraged the relatively limited powers of the Mississippi governor’s office as no one before him through a combination of political skills and relentless drive. His legislative influence in the last term was without recent parallel. But in the long term, Barbour’s most momentous exercise of…
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December 10, 2007
It’s the right time to call it a day
The Hattiesburg American Editorial, 12/8/7 By Trent Lott: Last week, I announced I’d be retiring from the Senate when the Senate ends its current session. That’ll be sometime in late December depending on when we finish appropriations bills and other pending Senate business. My reasons are varied, but basically it’s a family decision – one…
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December 10, 2007
Council takes no action on attorneys
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/8/7 After more than three hours in closed session Friday, the Jackson City Council took no action to hire additional attorneys to defend Mayor Frank Melton in two of four civil cases in which he and other city employees were named defendants. City Council President Leslie Burl McLemore said unanswered questions remain.
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December 10, 2007
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation, Day 11: Coffee, Tea or Dickie?
Scruggs Nation, Day 11: Coffee, Tea or Dickie? Scruggs has filed a motion, not opposed by the United States, to allow his private jet to take to the air once more, for the use of his attorneys in the criminal actions against him in Mississippi and Alabama. As a condition of release, U.S. Magistrate S.…
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December 9, 2007
CL – Money, power, politics and the law: Dickie Scruggs, Lightning rod
Money, power, politics and the law: Dickie Scruggs, Lightning rod Author Michael Orey in the 1999 book Assuming the Risk : The Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco (Little, Brown and Co.) suggested that even the contingency fee contract that gave Scruggs access to the tobacco case was the result of…
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December 9, 2007
CL EDITORIAL – Scruggs case: A league of his own
Scruggs case: A league of his own Scruggs’ political connections to prominent state politicians, his generosity to his Ole Miss alma mater, prior allegations of ruthless behavior on behalf of his clients and the lawyer’s penchant for using his wealth to guarantee the political outcomes he seeks – ask Insurance Commissioner George Dale about it…
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December 9, 2007
LOTT – ‘It’s been a wild ride’
‘It’s been a wild ride’ “I have no kind of sex problems. I have no financial problems. I have no legal problems,” he said Thursday on Sean Hannity’s national radio show. Commerical Dispatch 12/7/7
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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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Jeremy Pittari
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November 21, 2025
Mississippi lawmakers react as SNAP work requirement modifications take effect
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Frank Corder
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November 21, 2025
Alcorn’s Sound of Dyn-O-Mite to represent Mississippi in the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
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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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Daniel Tyson
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October 30, 2025
Mississippi senators hear concerns from farmers as state’s agriculture industry struggles
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Susan Marquez
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November 21, 2025
It’s not Thanksgiving for Chef Austin Sumrall without his Oyster Hand Pie
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Alistair Begg
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November 21, 2025
Preaching the Kingdom of God
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Mark Long, Associated Press
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November 20, 2025
Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian take different approaches to coaching rumors
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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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