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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…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
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…