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Study: Voter ID could harm 48,000 Mississippi residents

News Briefs From Across The State By Monica Land Law being reviewed by Department of Justice Mississippians could make up 10 percent of all Americans impeded from voting by new voter identification laws. The Brennan […]

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Prosecutors want to reinstate rape conviction

JACKSON – (AP) The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday granted a prosecution request to review a Stone County rape case. The state Court of Appeals last November ordered a new trial for Anthony Mercie Expose. […]

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Swanson named first black Miss. Methodist bishop

JACKSON – (AP) Mississippi's United Methodists will be getting their first ever black bishop. private haftpflichtversicherung Bishop James E. Swanson, Sr., who has been serving in eastern Tennessee since 2004, has been assigned to lead […]

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Pulitzer-winning columnist William Raspberry dies

WASHINGTON – (AP) William Raspberry, who became the second black columnist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his widely read syndicated commentaries in The Washington Post, died Tuesday. He was 76. Raspberry had prostate cancer […]

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14 dead, 50 hurt in Colorado theater shooting

AURORA, Colo. – (AP) A gunman opened fire early Friday morning at a suburban Denver movie theater on the opening night of the latest Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 14 people and injuring […]

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Body of black man found in creek

By Monica Land WEST POINT – Authorities in Clay County said the body of a black man was found in a local creek Wednesday, and they’re asking for the public’s help in identifying him. The […]