Mississippi News
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Black Republican campaigns on 'fulfilling Bush's vision' on social security
9:44 AM on 03/09/2010
While Washington Republicans are running from plans to privatize Social Security, one GOP House candidate in the south loves the idea and goes a step further...
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Mississippi woman could die in prison for $11 robbery
8:23 AM on 03/09/2010
"I think it would be unimaginable that two white women would be in this situation."...
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Ole Miss to vote on Colonel Reb mascot replacement
12:35 PM on 02/23/2010
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Students at the University of Mississippi vote Tuesday on whether to replace their American football team mascot Colonel Reb -- a caricature of a white plantation owner...
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Mississippi family allege police brutality [VIDEO]
9:43 AM on 02/22/2010
A Mississippi family is in an uproar after they say have video of police stomping, beating and choking one of their family members...
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Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan to run for Congress in Mississippi
3:07 PM on 02/09/2010
Her candidacy puts the House GOP campaign committee in a bit of a jam...
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Disgraced Mississippi judge reports to federal prison
8:30 AM on 01/05/2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison...
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Officials probe Miss. apartment fire that killed nine
10:14 AM on 12/29/2009
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Investigators were working to figure out what sparked a Mississippi apartment fire that killed six children and three women...
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Author follows cold cases, examines Mississippi's racial struggles
8:14 AM on 12/22/2009
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Harry MacLean was a daily spectator in 2007 when federal prosecutors put part of Mississippi's troubled racial past on trial...
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Phony racist gets probation for death threats
12:12 PM on 12/03/2009
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A black man from Mississippi who posed as a white supremacist and sent racist death threats over the Internet has been sentenced to three years of probation...
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KKK rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game
5:20 AM on 11/22/2009
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU...
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Boy rescued from inside chimney
1:29 PM on 11/20/2009
VIDEO - Move over balloon boy. A teen in Jackson, Mississippi has provided new drama. But this was no hoax...
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Mississippi governor wants to merge state's 3 HBCUs into one
8:36 AM on 11/19/2009
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday unveiled a budget that includes sweeping reorganization of state government, including proposals...
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27 university band members suspended for violent hazing
10:47 AM on 10/01/2009
VIDEO - University police say freshman members of the band were assaulted with bats, paddles and wooden beams...
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The Smithsonian accepts Emmett Till's casket
5:02 PM on 09/03/2009
From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just 14 years old when he was brutally beaten, shot in the head, and dumped in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a White woman. His mother, Mamie Till Mobley,...
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Football player called a hero after tackling girl with gun on school bus
10:47 AM on 09/03/2009
It's a story that could have had a very different ending.More than 20 students are safe thanks to the quick work of a Mississippi high school football player.He saved the day when police say a 14 year old pulled out a gun on the school bus...
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Football player tackles girl with gun on school bus
6:00 PM on 09/02/2009
VIDEO -- A Yazoo County, Mississippi teenager is being called a hero. A second teen is in the county youth detention center facing a mountain of legal troubles...
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87-year-old woman who lives in a shack gets a new home
12:31 PM on 08/31/2009
VIDEO -- Last month we covered a story of an 87-year old woman living in a one-room shack in rural Scott County south of Lena.Thanks to that story over $35,000 has been raised to build her a new house...
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Donations assist 87-year-old woman living in a shack
7:01 AM on 08/12/2009
VIDEO - TheGrio has an update concerning 87-year-old Ester Davis of Lena. We first showed you that Ms. Davis is living in a 160-year-old leaky shack in deplorable conditions...
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87-year-old woman lives in leaky shack, prays for help
9:21 AM on 07/31/2009
An 87-year-old woman, living alone, in a 160-year-old shack about three miles south of Lena, Mississippi says she has no one to help her get out of the deplorable conditions. Every room in her shack leaks, except for the living room in the center of the badly deteriorated structure. In...
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Feds probe Mississippi schools' racial imbalance
2:25 PM on 07/22/2009
U.S. Justice Department wants a small Mississippi school district to end its practice of allowing hundreds of white students to transfer from majority black schools, calling it a violation of a desegregation order...
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