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2 months ago | 
messenger-inquirer.com | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. A small brick home with three pairs of dark red shutters sits alongside several similarly modest houses across South Lake Street from hundreds of rows of green crops in a wide, flat field in Shelby, Miss.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | William Pittman |Ashton Pittman
Mississippi voters can use the following table to examine voting precinct polling places for the Nov. 5, 2024, general election. The Mississippi Free Press compiled the list using data we obtained from the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office and after contacting local election officials in all 82 counties.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
Nearly four years after errors in Mississippi’s election system sent many voters to wait in long lines at the wrong polling place on Election Day 2020, some of the same issues remain just 49 days before Election Day. The Mississippi Free Press first began reporting on those issues in October 2020 while attempting to assemble a comprehensive list of voting precincts that had changed since that year’s primaries amid pandemic restrictions.
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May 10, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is accusing Sports Illustrated’s former publisher and a former reporter of defaming him in a new lawsuit over a May 2023 report about Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal and his connection to retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
Retired NFL star Brett Favre questioned the legality of $1.1 million in payments he received from a state-affiliated nonprofit after Mississippi investigators revealed the money came from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families welfare funds, newly unveiled text messages show.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
Mississippi election officials have moved at least 10 precincts ahead of Tuesday’s party primaries for U.S. House, U.S. Senate and presidential candidates, a Mississippi Free Press investigation has found. The Mississippi Free Press’ latest investigation and an examination of data in the Statewide Election Management System also found missing, incomplete, incorrect or old addresses for 90 precincts across 19 counties.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Smith v. Byrd |Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
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 Republican politician, who led the state from 2012 to 2020, sued the publication last year over since-retracted remarks its CEO, Mary Margaret White, made onstage at a journalism forum in which she claimed he “embezzled” welfare funds.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
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 Republican politician, who led the state from 2012 to 2020, sued the publication last year over since-retracted remarks its CEO, Mary Margaret White, made onstage at a journalism forum in which she claimed he “embezzled” welfare funds.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
mississippifreepress.org | Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
Brett Favre, the retired NFL quarterback who is now a civil defendant in the State of Mississippi’s lawsuit to clawback millions in misspent welfare funds, denied during a sworn deposition with investigators in December that he sought funding to build a volleyball stadium for his daughter’s benefit.
