A quiet afternoon of reading cases, eating turkey sandwiches, and half-watching some football. Saw Oxford’s own Justin Woodall draw an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty (picked off an Auburn pass then threw away in a temper fit when he realized the play had been called dead and his interception was for naught). [...]
John Grisham’s latest book, “Ford County” features seven short stories and is dedicated to Representative Bobby Moak, a Democrat from Lincoln County, Mississippi. I make a few comments on the books (including a quick teaser on each story) and discuss a fundraiser Grisham hosted for Moak and what that possibly [...]
Well, so says Steve Patterson in a pleading filed Wednesday:
In July 2009, when Scruggs was being temporarily held in Atlanta, Georgia, where Patterson and Scruggs were both in transition to Oxford, Mississippi as witnesses for the DeLaughter trial, Scruggs, on repeated occasions, told Patterson that he was going to settle [...]
Pictured from left to right: (back row: Felton Combest, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, MRHC; Paul Byers, M.D., District Health Officer, MSDH; Rick Napper, CEO, MRHC; front row (sitting): Tim Irvin, RN, MRHC; Jonathan Ford, Corinth High School student)
Magnolia Regional Health Center has agreed [...]
Not really a political story, but there is a lot of politics at play: Chancellor asks band to stop playing ‘From Dixie with Love’
Posted in Random/ Just for Fun Tagged: Dixie, Ole Miss [...] So this morning, why I do not know, I turned on American Family Radio briefly, and they were fulminating against the evils of Islam because of the gunman at Fort Hood. One of the guys announces: “Name two Christian terrorists.”
I immediately thought:
Preacher Killen Timothy McVeigh John Ford Sealethen a few moments later
The [...]David Chang of the Momofuku restaurants in Manhattan was in town for the Southern Foodways Alliance Conference this weekend, cooking the Saturday lunch that is always a main food event of the weekend. What he made was a salad of shaved country ham from Alan Benton [...]
James Ford Seale was the klansman from Southwest Mississippi convicted of kidnapping a couple of years ago. He lead a group that picked up two Black college-aged guys, took the into the woods, beat them, then (crossing over into Louisiana), weighted them down and threw them in the Mississippi to [...]
