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Fastest rising rent in U.S. is in one Mississippi city

(AP) Home rental prices are climbing across much of the United States — with the biggest gains coming from not from New York or San Francisco but Jackson, Mississippi, and Portland, Maine. Real estate data […]

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BITE MARKS-SLAYINGS-APPEAL Bite-mark expert dismisses own testimony   JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The expert whose bite-mark evidence led a jury to put Eddie Lee Howard Jr. on Mississippi’s death row now believes that such evidence […]

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Father, son die when rear-ended Jeep flips off I-55 overpass

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Police in Jackson, Mississippi, say a father and son from Illinois died when their Jeep was rear-ended and flipped over the railing of an Interstate 55 overpass. Multiple media outlets report […]

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The latest on church shooting: Survivor played dead

The Associated Press 10:45 p.m. Felecia Sanders says she survived a shooting massacre at a historic black church in Charleston by playing dead as she lay on top of her granddaughter to protect her. Cynthia […]

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White gunman caught in killing of 9 in historic black church

By JEFFREY COLLINS and RUSS BYNUM CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — It was an act of “pure, pure concentrated evil,” Charleston’s mayor said — a black community’s leading lights extinguished in a spray of bullets, allegedly at the hands […]

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RENASANT ACQUISITION Mississippi-based regional bank OK’d to buy Georgia bank TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – Shareholders of Renasant Bank of Tupelo have approved the purchase of HeritageBank of the South, based in Albany, Georgia, in an […]

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Pastor, 8 others, fatally shot at church in Charleston, SC

By ALEX SANZ and DAVID GOLDMAN   CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, killing nine people, including the pastor, in […]