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Poultry company new title sponsor of PGA tournament

MBJ Staff — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:08:39 +0000

LAUREL and MADISON — Sanderson Farms Inc. is the new title sponsor of the PGA tournament held annually at Annandale Golf Club in Madison. Mississippi’s only PGA event will now be known as the Sanderson Farms Championship. The Laurel-based poultry company is holding a news conference today at 10 a.m. at the Blair E. Batson [...]

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Officials worried about blackout before Super Bowl

Associated Press — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:43:15 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — While authorities investigate the causes of the 34-minute Super Bowl blackout, documents show that Superdome officials were worried last fall about losing power at the big game. Officials warned in an Oct. 15 memo that tests on the dome’s electrical feeders showed decay and “a chance of failure.” Entergy New Orleans, the [...]

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Local design firm creates new New Orleans Pelicans logo

Associated Press — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:50:41 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Mississippi may not have its own major league professional sports team, but one Hattiesburg resident can at least say he had a major part in developing one. Rodney Richardson, founder and principal of RARE Design in downtown Hattiesburg, recently designed a new logo for the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, who will soon become [...]

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Ex-NFL players file federal lawsuit over concussions

Associated Press — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:09:40 +0000

JACKSON — A federal lawsuit filed in Mississippi on behalf of more than 50 former NFL players claims the league conspired to hide the dangers of concussions and brain trauma associated with professional football. The lawsuit was filed Aug. 28 in U.S. District Court in Jackson. Some of the players named in the lawsuit are [...]

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Ex-NFL player going to jail for defrauding investors

Associated Press — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:40:37 +0000

JACKSON — Former NFL football player Jeffrey Walker is going to prison for defrauding investors in four states of more than $2 million in what prosecutors say was a land development scheme involving property in China. A federal judge sentenced Walker to 45 months for wire fraud and 36 months for tax evasion. The sentences [...]

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Judge postpones ex-NFL player’s sentencing for fraud

Associated Press — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:48:01 +0000

MADISON — A federal judge has put off a former NFL player’s sentencing to give prosecutors time to notify possible fraud victims in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Arizona. The Clarion-Ledger reports that the amount of Jeffrey Walker’s restitution payment will depend on the number of victims. Sentencing had been scheduled for last Friday. Federal assistant [...]

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Payton, Brees, Manning among Saints taken by scammer

Associated Press — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:32:06 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — Unlike this season’s winning on the football field, current and former members of the New Orleans Saints who bought nonexistent tax credits from a defunct movie studio are likely to come out big losers — perhaps getting back only 15 percent of their investment. The Saints personnel — including coach Sean Payton, [...]

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C Spire signs sponsorship pact with Grizzlies, FedExForum

MBJ Staff — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:49:31 +0000

RIDGELAND — The Memphis Grizzlies and C Spire Wireless have entered into a multi-year sponsorship agreement involving the NBA Western Conference team and FedExForum. Terms were not disclosed. As part of the agreement, the Memphis Grizzlies have chosen C Spire Wireless as the official wireless partner of the professional basketball team and FedExForum and will [...]

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Ex-NFL player pleads guilty to business scam

Associated Press — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:57:03 +0000

JACKSON — A former National Football League player and Mississippi businessman has admitted to using investors’ money for a planned resort area in China and to buy himself a luxury van, a boat and other items. The Clarion-Ledger reports 48-year-old Jeffrey L. Walker, formerly of Madison, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to wire [...]

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Glanville to push for football team in Jackson

MBJ Staff — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:55:33 +0000

JACKSON — On Oct. 5, former NFL head coach Jerry Glanville will visit Jackson to meet with city officials and business leaders to discuss the potential for a Jackson-based United Football League expansion team to participate in the 2012 season. Glanville, who was the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons (1986-1989) and Houston Oilers (1990-1993), [...]

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