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June 27, 2008
SH – Judge Neal D. Biggers Jr. – “reprehensible”
Scruggs gets 5 years, $250,000 Dickie Scruggs received the maximum 5 years in prison in $250,000 in fines for a crime Judge Neal D. Biggers Jr. called “reprehensible.” Before sentencing, Scruggs told the judge, “I could not be more ashamed to be where I am today. I realized I was getting mixed up in it…
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June 27, 2008
Metro-sized
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/27/8 After a 10-year struggle to grow and maintain businesses on Jackson’s U.S. 80 corridor, Nina Holbrook’s territory just got a whole lot bigger. Holbrook, 63, has taken a job starting next week as Jackson’s retail manager, a newly created position in the Planning and Development Department. “My primary focus is still going…
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June 27, 2008
Medicaid funds: Bryant can save ‘Aunt Bessie’
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/27/8 In the Medicaid funding stalemate, citizens have a right to question if an important public policy issue isn’t getting bogged down in personalities as a test of will. Republican Gov. Haley Barbour has been adamant that lawmakers should adopt his strategy to address a $90 million deficit in the Division of…
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June 27, 2008
Stalemate over Medicaid: Lt. gov. blocks tobacco-tax move
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/27/8 The chances of increasing cigarette taxes to pay for Medicaid grew slimmer after Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant ruled against a Democrat-led attempt to consider the hike in a special session that resumed Thursday. Bryant, a Republican who backs a hospital tax plan to fund the health insurance program, said it would be…
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June 27, 2008
YP BREAKING – Scruggs Gets 5 years
5 years in jail, 3 years supervised release, $250,000 and pay for his own incarceration. Report to Jail in Pensacola August 4th.
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June 27, 2008
Johns’ arrest no cause for celebration
Johns’ arrest no cause for celebration One of the more distasteful elements of the Auburn-Alabama rivalry (and others rivalries, I’m sure) is the celebration on one side when something bad happens to the other. It’s particularly distasteful when the celebration is about something bad happening to a college student who happens to be an athlete.…
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June 27, 2008
Andy Taggart – The Supreme Court, the Second Amendment, and November
The Supreme Court, the Second Amendment, and November Anyone who thinks that it doesn’t really matter who is elected President of the United States this November would do well to consider this case carefully. All four of the conservative Justices — Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito — voted to protect the rights of individual gun-owners,…
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June 27, 2008
Bulls make mistake passing on Beasley
Bulls make mistake passing on Beasley Michael Beasley “falling” to No. 2 in the NBA draft is not an indictment of what he accomplished at Kansas State or even a product of Beasley being 2 inches shorter than his 6-foot-10 program height. Derrick Rose, the No. 1 pick in Thursday’s draft, is not a better…
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June 27, 2008
Rader: Don’t blame Shula in Johns case
Rader: Don’t blame Shula in Johns case Dave Rader is 18 months and 600 miles removed from the Alabama football program, but he reacted to this week’s Jimmy Johns arrest as if he still were the team’s offensive coordinator. “I was shocked,” Rader said Thursday from Tulsa, where he has moved and gone into private…
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June 27, 2008
DJ – Lackey was not truly bribed
Scruggs faces sentencing today In actuality, Lackey was not truly bribed because at the first hints of such a deal, he went to the FBI and began to work with them to ensnare the conspirators. Nov. 29, they did. Scruggs, Backstrom, Scruggs’ lawyer son Zach, former New Albany attorney Timothy Balducci and former state Auditor…
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June 27, 2008
Sentencing set today for noted lawyer Scruggs in bribery case
Sentencing set today for noted lawyer Scruggs in bribery case As for Scruggs, his attorneys are expected to talk about his generosity and his many contributions to society. In a number of recent corruption cases across the nation, judges have leaned toward stiffer sentences, said Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of…
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June 27, 2008
NYCDBLOG – Scruggs Judge Biggers: Blogger Is Worthy
Scruggs Judge Biggers: Blogger Is Worthy Say what? A blogger? A blogger is worthy of “equal credentials with the traditional press?” And so comes the good news, and the bad. The fact that Judge Biggers gave Tom Freeland of folo the time of day is big. This is a recognition that blawgs exist and, maybe,…
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August 11, 2025
Mississippi to receive $135 million in HUD disaster recovery funding for 2023, 2024 storms
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Daniel Tyson
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August 11, 2025
What is Mississippi’s pitch to corporations looking to invest in the Magnolia State?
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August 11, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: August 11, 2025
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Daniel Tyson
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August 7, 2025
Mississippi is an attractive place for corporate investment. Find out why
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Lynne Jeter
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August 5, 2025
Mancuso Chemicals investing $5.52 million in the Magnolia State
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August 4, 2025
Cherry elected Mississippi Power chairman, CEO
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Parrish Alford
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August 11, 2025
There’s a lot of football to be played before November, but the Egg Bowl you have with you always
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Robert St. John
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August 11, 2025
Onward
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Alistair Begg
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August 11, 2025
An attitude like Christ’s
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Paul Sperry
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August 11, 2025
Whistleblower ties Clinton campaign to fake Russia hack
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Russ Latino
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August 10, 2025
Will Mississippi Republicans stand with President Trump on school choice or side with Democratic colleagues to oppose him?
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Kelley Williams
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August 7, 2025
Bob Dylan and the Overton Window
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