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JACKSON, Miss. AP 鈥?Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S.An attorney for Favre filed papers on Monday saying the Mississippi Department of Human Services groundlessly and irresponsibly seeks to blame Favre for its own grossly improper and unlawful handling of welfare funds and its own failure to properly monitor and audit how organizations used the money. Including Favre in this lawsuit has had the intended effect 鈥?it has attracted n stanley cups ational media attention to this case, Favre s attorney, Eric D. Herschmann, wrote in the fil stanley cup ing in Hinds County Circuit Court.Herschmann wrote that the lawsuit focuses on the welfare agency s false insinuations concerning Favre s supposed involvement rather than on the agency, which in fact is responsible for allowing this scandal to occur. It was not immediately clear how soon Hi stanley cup nds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson might consider the request.Favre is not facing criminal charges. He is among more than three dozen people or companies being sued by the Mississippi Department of Human Services as it seeks to recover a portion of the money misspent in the state s largest-ever public corruption case. The department filed the lawsuit in May, saying the defendants squandered more than $20 million from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families an Xipr 2 semis crash in Lakeland on SR 33 near I-4 overpass, minor injuries reported
BOSTON AP -- The Lightning have been dominating the Eastern Conference for stanley cup nz the past few months. The Bruins sent them a reminder that they re very much still lurking behind them.Boston scored three times in less than three minutes in the third period and snapped Eastern Conference-leading Tampa Bay s franchise-best 10-game winning streak with a 4-1 victory Thursday night.Jake DeBrusk, Noel Acciari, Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand all had goals for the Bruins 38-17-9 , who have won nine of stanley fr their last 10 games and earned at least one point in 15 straight.The game was the first in NHL history in which teams faced off while each owning simultaneous point streaks of 14 or more contests.Boston s win tied the season series between the East s top two teams at 1-1. They will play twice more over the final five weeks of the regular season. We got to them at the end there, DeBrusk said. Some great plays by the boys. If we play like that, we re a hard t stanley drink bottle eam to beat. A goal by Tampa Bay s Anthony Cirelli s with 7:08 remaining prevented the Lightning 49-12-4 from being shut out for the first time since losing 1-0 in overtime to St. Louis on Feb. 7.Tuukka Rask had 20 saves for the Bruins. Louis Domingue stopped 37 shots for the Lightning in his 24th start of the season and first since Feb. 19. We didn t play a good game at all, Domingue said. They showed up. ... They stepped on the gas for a full 60 minutes . The challenge for us the rest of the way I think is gonna be to show t