Emily Wagster Pettus

November 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"If you get arrested in one of these counties where grand juries seldom meet, you can wind up in jail for months or even years just waiting to be indicted, and you will spend more time behind bars simply because of geographic misfortune," said Cliff Johnson, an attorney who is director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press

5 minute read

October 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett ruled that Sharpe, a former tight end, was using "rhetorical hyperbole" in saying on air that Favre was "taking from the underserved," that the former quarterback "stole money from people that really needed that money" and that someone would have to be a sorry person "to steal from the lowest of the low."

By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press

4 minute read

February 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online

On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the bill, which went into effect immediately and is part of a broad effort in conservative states to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows.

By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press

2 minute read

February 23, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Lewis, 78, is among five people—including a Seattle attorney whose husband was killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964—being honored for advancing civil rights.

By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press

4 minute read

July 03, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A man who was convicted and later cleared after falsely confessing to murder at 13 says he is grateful a court revived his request for compensation in Mississippi, and that others might benefit from a change in how the state handles wrongful conviction lawsuits.

By Emily Wagster Pettus

6 minute read

August 30, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state's open carry-gun law Thursday, allowing it to take effect after a circuit judge's order had kept it on hold about two months.

By Emily Wagster Pettus

4 minute read

September 27, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The Mississippi Department of Insurance filed a lawsuit Thursday against the federal government to try to block rates from increasing Oct. 1 in the National Flood Insurance Program.

By Emily Wagster Pettus

3 minute read

August 20, 2008 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Miss. AP - The leader of a tax study commission says the group is only "working around the edges" as it prepares to recommend changes in how Mississippi collects revenue."Our tax structure in Mississippi is basically pretty sound," businessman Leland Speed said Tuesday during a break in the group's public hearing at the state Agriculture Museum.

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

3 minute read

July 11, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A hearing Wednesday will help a federal judge decide whether to extend his temporary block of a law that could close Mississippi's only abortion clinic.

By Emily Wagster Pettus

4 minute read

March 26, 2008 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Miss. AP - Three executives of a Georgia-based architecture, construction and engineering company pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony charges for their alleged roles in a beef processing plant that failed in 2004 in north Mississippi.Court records show those charged in newly unsealed 16-count indictment are:- Robert L.

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

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