Locals elected to 2024-2025 Mississippi Main Street board of directors and representatives

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July 17, 2024

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Locals elected to 2024-2025 Mississippi Main Street board of directors and representatives

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Bulldogs Ready for Their Turn in SEC Media Day Spotlight, The Morning Bell: July 17, 2024

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July 17, 2024

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DALLAS – Half of the SEC programs have had their turn in the spotlight at the Omni Hotel in Dallas and on Wednesday, Mississippi State will get its turn.

First-year coach Jeff Lebby along with first-year quarterback Blake Shapen, linebacker John Lewis and offensive lineman Albert Reese IV will speak with the media Wednesday morning. Lebby will take to the main podium at 10:35 a.m. on SEC Network and then will be a live guest on the SEC Network’s onsite set at 11:45 a.m.

We’ll have live coverage of Lebby’s appearances here.

No games scheduled.

No games played.

“If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.”

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Paddling and playing on the Mississippi

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July 16, 2024

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JW Francis paddles under the College Drive Bridge Monday, July 15, 2024, on his way to Mississippi. The indie rocker and outdoor enthusiast set his sights on his next life adventure, a wild ride down the great Mississippi River this July.

Between tours of the U.S., UK, and EU to support his upcoming album “Sunshine,” Francis plans to traverse the 2,340 mile trip from Minnesota to Louisiana on his first-ever canoe trip.

Francis said he will be camping and performing impromptu concerts in local establishments while embracing all that the river community has to offer.

I was raised on a farm in western Minnesota where I participated in 4-H, high school sports, and everything that farm kids do for fun after chores. Graduated from Ridgewater Community College with an AA degree and my first taste of newspapering. I worked a summer on the Ortonville Independent as a reporter and photographer.

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A Mississippi judge removes 1 of Brett Favre’s lawyers in a civil case over misspent welfare money

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July 16, 2024

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A Mississippi judge removes 1 of Brett Favre’s lawyers in a civil case over misspent welfare money

(AP) – A Mississippi judge has removed one of the attorneys representing retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest residents in the U.S. but went to projects pushed by wealthy and well-connected people.

Favre is still represented by other lawyers in the case that the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed in 2022 against him and more than three dozen other people, groups and companies.

Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson wrote Thursday in her removal order that one of Favre’s New York-based attorneys, Daniel Koevary, had violated rules for Mississippi civil court procedures by repeatedly demanding hearings “for matters unrelated to and not within the jurisdiction of this Court to resolve.” Peterson also wrote that she deemed the behavior “an attempt to manufacture discord.”

The Associated Press sent email messages to Koevary on Friday and Monday asking for his reaction to Peterson’s decision.

Mississippi Auditor Shad White said in 2020 that Favre, a Pro Football Hall of Fame member who lives in Mississippi, had improperly received $1.1 million in speaking fees from a nonprofit organization that spent welfare money with approval from the Mississippi Department of Human Services. The welfare money was to go toward a volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre agreed to lead fundraising efforts for the facility at his alma mater, where his daughter started playing on the volleyball team in 2017.

Favre repaid $500,000 to the state in May 2020 and $600,000 in October 2021, White said in a court filing in February that Favre still owes $729,790 because interest caused growth in the original amount he owed.

Favre is not facing any criminal charges. Former Mississippi Department of Human Services director John Davis and others have pleaded guilty to misspending money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

White has said more than $77 million of welfare money was misspent from 2016 to 2019, including $160,000 for drug rehab for a former pro wrestler and thousands of dollars for airfare and hotel stays for Davis, who led the Department of Human Services during those years.

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