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July 3, 2008
Election Report Meant to Be an Eye Opener
Election Report Meant to Be an Eye Opener The Secretary of State’s office has released a first of it’s kind report to the public. It details both the good and bad from this year’s primary and runoff elections. Delbert Hosemann says it give Mississippians a good measuring stick for where our state election process stands.…
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July 3, 2008
CL – Zach Scruggs’ penalty harsher than Trailer Lawyers anticipated
Zach Scruggs’ penalty harsher than anticipated Lawyers for the son of powerful trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs were caught unprepared Wednesday when a judge ordered imprisonment for their client. They may appeal. Biggers called the case a sad one since Zach Scruggs’ father was the primary actor. “It makes it even sadder that you, his son,…
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July 3, 2008
FOLO – Anita and Jerry spin Zach Scruggs’ sentencing differently
Anita and Jerry spin Zach Scruggs’ sentencing differently Both reports describe Mike Moore’s getting crossways with Judge Biggers, Jerry’s (the longer) focusing on this farther down but in more detail. He repeats, without attribution this time (second graf), the hint he received yesterday from Todd Graves, that Team Zach may pull itself together to appeal…
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July 3, 2008
NYT – Scruggs’s Son Sentenced in Bribery Case
Scruggs’s Son Sentenced in Bribery Case The government had recommended probation for Zach Scruggs, 34, also a lawyer, who was sentenced by Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. at a hearing in Federal District Court in Oxford, Miss. Richard Scruggs, 62, who spearheaded legal settlements with tobacco firms that provided $206 billion to 46 states, was…
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July 3, 2008
SH – Younger Scruggs also gets prison
Younger Scruggs also gets prison Scruggs had hoped for probation. His attorneys were unprepared to tell Biggers where Scruggs hoped to serve the sentence because they had not expected him to go to prison. One of those attorneys, former Attorney General Mike Moore, asked that Scruggs be allowed to suggest a location in a legal…
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July 3, 2008
Mike Moore quote of the year
Zach Scruggs’ penalty harsher than anticipated After the hearing, Mike Moore said of Zach Scruggs, “His father is involved in something. What’s he going to do? Turn his father in?” Clarion Ledger 7/3/8
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July 3, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time
Zach Scruggs gets 14 months prison time Also present and representing Zach was former Mississippi AG Mike Moore, who at one point, to the apparent surprise of the judge, who said he was accustomed to only one lawyer speaking on behalf of a defendant, interjected some bunk about counseling Zach over the last year and…
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July 3, 2008
WJSLAWBLOG – Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation
Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation Former Mississippi AG Mike Moore defended Scruggs, saying that Scruggs never knew of an attempt to corrupt a judge. But Biggers said one of the most negative things about Scruggs’s case was that Scruggs had declared his great love and respect for law. “Your actions have…
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July 3, 2008
YP – Partial text from Zach’s March plea hearing
THE COURT : All right. Mr. Graves, Mr. Moore, do either of you have any doubt as to the defendant’ s competence to enter a plea at this time? MR . GRAVES : No, sir. MR . MOORE : No, sir. THE COURT : The Court finds that this defendant is competent to enter a…
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July 3, 2008
Governor Barbour pushes Judge Singletary to rush decision on Medicaid
“I have directed the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to file a motion today asking Judge William H. Singletary of the Hinds County Chancery Court to expedite his ruling in a lawsuit challenging the agency’s authority to increase gross revenue assessments on hospitals as a means of funding the program. I believe now as I did…
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July 3, 2008
Text of Zach Scruggs’ Sentencing Hearing
The Zach Scruggs Sentencing Hearing Transcript courtesy of our friends at FOLO THE COURT : All right. The next case on the docket is U . S . v . David Zachary Scruggs. Who’ s with him? Are they here? (Pause) Come up, gentlemen. All right. Let’ s get some order back there. All right.…
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July 3, 2008
YP – Misprision of Felony
Most news outlets are reporting that Zach Scruggs pleaded guilty to misprision of felony by simply failing to report the “conspiracy” to influence Judge Lackey. The Daily Mississippian says “Zach Scruggs pleaded guilty to failure to report a conspiracy by his father and law partners to bribe Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey earlier this…
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Frank Corder
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May 6, 2026
Speaker White names House Select Committees to tackle property taxes, school consolidation, redistricting, more
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Daniel Tyson
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May 6, 2026
Job training life-affirming for inmates in MAGCOR programs
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 6, 2026
State agencies team up to promote maternal mental health care
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2026
Mississippi companies invited to participate in 2026 Southeastern U.S.–Canadian Provinces Conference
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Frank Corder
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April 22, 2026
Corderill investing $100 million at Meridian data center campus
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Frank Corder
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April 17, 2026
Walmart announces plan to remodel 19 Mississippi stores
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Susan Marquez
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May 6, 2026
Canton Flea Market returns for 62nd year
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Alistair Begg
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May 6, 2026
A word to children
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Meredith Biesinger
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May 5, 2026
Where the Wild Things Grow: Inside Maypop Art’s garage studio
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Christy Hovanetz
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May 6, 2026
Mississippi is raising the bar, and that’s a really good thing for kids
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Russ Latino
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May 5, 2026
Mississippi faces pressure to redistrict before congressional midterms, but also real world constraints
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Susan Crabtree
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May 1, 2026
U.S. Secret Service Chief says Hilton site was ‘set up perfectly,’ critics disagree
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