Longtime Mississippi business leader Leland Speed dies
January 28, 2021 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Leland R. Speed, a prominent Mississippi businessman who twice served as the state’s economic development director, died Wednesday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Speed died of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease, his son Warren Speed told WLBT-TV. Speed was in his late 80s.
Speed was founder and chairman of Parkway Properties Inc. and EastGroup Properties Inc. Both companies manage real estate holdings in several states.
In 2004, Republican Gov. Haley Barbour chose Speed as executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority. Speed served through the end of 2016, taking a state salary of $1 a year. At the end of Barbour’s second term, he brought Speed back as MDA director from March 2011 to January 2012.
Aaron KellerJan 26th, 2021, 11:53 am
Florida prosecutors are asking a judge to allow them to present evidence to a jury that
Nikolas Cruz drew swastikas on both sides of an AR-15 gun magazine and on boots used during the Parkland school shooting. That’s according to documents and photos filed recently in Florida’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County, where Cruz is being tried.
The presence of the swastikas has long been reported through unnamed sources but appears not to have been acknowledged by the government in court records until this month. Images submitted by prosecutors show the swastikas.
The evidence is described more specifically as “a firearm magazine etched with swastikas on each side of the magazine located in the AR-15 firearm used in the shooting and left at the scene,” and as “the boots worn by the Defendant when he was arrested approximately an hour and twenty minutes after the shooting began.” The defendant’s footwear bore “a hand
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Peoria Unified student nominated for U.S. Presidential Scholar in CTE
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