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Ex-Gov. Phil Bryant Sues Over Sports Illustrated Story on Welfare Scandal, Alleging Defamation
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is accusing Sports Illustrated’s former publisher and a former reporter of defaming him in a new lawsuit over a...
Ex-Gov. Phil Bryant Sues Over Sports Illustrated Story on Welfare Scandal, Alleging Defamation
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is accusing Sports Illustrated’s former publisher and a former reporter of defaming him in a new lawsuit over a...
Aberdeen councilman suing Monroe County, sheriff’s department for wrongful confinement
An Aberdeen city councilman is suing Monroe County and the sheriff’s department for an alleged violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. Ward One Councilman Nicholas Holliday has filed a lawsuit against the two parties following an incident in December in which he was held at the Monroe County jail for...
The post Aberdeen councilman suing Monroe County, sheriff’s department for wrongful confinement appeared first on SuperTalk Mississippi.
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AG Lynn Fitch to open north Mississippi office, but not in Houston
Following in the footsteps of her predecessor, Attorney General Lynn Fitch will have satellite offices in both south and north Mississippi.
Fitch currently is seeking...
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Lawmakers to hold first hearing on welfare scandal after years of legislative inaction
For the first time since Mississippi’s multimillion welfare scandal broke in February 2020, lawmakers will hold a hearing about the misspending or theft of...
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Data Dive: Mississippi’s TANF Work Program expenditures 2015-2022
Editor’s Note: Public reports regarding the state’s administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program give little detail as to how Mississippi uses...
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Lumumba, Reeves continue to point fingers as Congress calls for probe of Jackson water spending
About a month removed from a unified effort to lift Jackson out of its water crisis, city and state officials continue to trade public...
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Progressive Dystopia?
Last week a group of Los Angeles council members hit the headlines when they were secretly recorded discussing redistricting. Some of the language that they...
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With the Movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s Quest to Educate the World Marches On
After 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, severely beaten and killed in the Mississippi Delta on Aug. 28, 1955, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the...
