Brett Favre Questioned Legality of Welfare Funds He Received, Texts Show
Retired NFL star Brett Favre questioned the legality of $1.1 million in payments he received from a state-affiliated nonprofit, texts show.
Retired NFL star Brett Favre questioned the legality of $1.1 million in payments he received from a state-affiliated nonprofit, texts show.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a tradition that began in 1993.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter could become the latest defendant in former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s ongoing lawsuit against online news publication Mississippi Today. The former governor’s legal team is seeking to add reporter Anna Wolfe, whose “Backchannel” series earned the publication a coveted local-reporting Pulitzer Prize last May, as a defendant over a story she reported late last year.
Brett Favre denied during a sworn deposition that he sought funding to build a volleyball stadium at USM for his daughter’s benefit.
Mississippi elections end, national elections begin. We’re used to the endless campaign seasons here in Mississippi, and 2024 will be no different.
Attorneys for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will depose former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant about the state’s welfare scandal.
“I can’t tell you how many white people, many of them young, have walked up to me at a restaurant or a grocery store and said: ‘Thank you. I was taught the Civil War wasn’t about slavery,” Editor Donna Ladd writes, explaining why her Mississippi newsrooms have reported difficult historic context for over two decades.
“The theft of funds that should have helped the poorest people in the poorest state remains a vital story to tell and uncover,” Ashton Pittman writes.
Attorneys for the State of Mississippi interrogated retired NFL star Brett Favre for more than nine hours in a secret deposition about the State’s $77-million welfare scandal in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.
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