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Recognized for pro bono work in 2010
Honored as a young lawyer in October 2010 for helping low income people free of charge, Zandrea King was recently named the Chief Executive Officer for the Mississippi Association of Community Mental Health Centers. King, an Indianola native, received her law degree at Mississippi College. She completed an internship at the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office and later worked with Justice James Kitchens at the Mississippi Supreme Court and also at the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers’ Project (MVLP).
King completed her undergraduate studies at Mississippi State University before moving on to the University of Memphis where she received a master’s degree in Counseling.
King was the recipient of the Young Lawyers of the Mississippi Bar Award in 2009 and the MVLP’s Young Lawyer Pro Bono Service Award in 2010.
Tupelo students ‘demonstrate’ in support of fired principal
Students at Tupelo High School have shown their disappointment in recent days after hearing that their beloved principal was being replaced. Many of those same students took to the streets Friday morning in a demonstration in support of Principal Lee Stratton.
Stratton is being reassigned to another position in the school district.
WCBI reported that Stratton, who prior to being named the principal, was a basketball coach and a teacher at the high school, knew the demonstration was taking place outside across the street, but encouraged students to show up for class and be on time.
Many parents were also shocked by Stratton’s removal calling him a “good man and a good teacher.” The school board has not said why Stratton was being removed.
Stratton is being replaced by Christopher Barnes, an elementary and middle school principal in North Carolina, who will begin his new position on July 1.
15-year old and two others arrested for stealing car
Three suspects are now in custody, including a 15-year old juvenile, for allegedly stealing a car in Pascagoula. Authorities said Jaquez Cunningham, 17, was seen driving the car with Ladarius Kirkland, 18, as a passenger and the 15-year old.
The robbery occurred about 2 a.m. in the 2100 block of Eden Street. Police responded to an auto burglary in progress call and witnesses told the officers they saw two black males get out of a silver car and then break the driver’s side window of the vehicle.
Police later saw the car, a silver 2001 Mitsubishi Galant, and stopped the suspects.
Cunningham and Kirkland were taken into custody and charged with auto burglary. The juvenile was charged through youth court.
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