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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Miss.</title>
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		<title>FBI agent who probed slayings of 3 civil rights workers during 1960s in Miss. dies at 77</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wagster Pettus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, who helped state and federal officials reopen long-dormant investigations of killings from Mississippi&#8217;s violent civil rights era, has died. He was 77.

Ingram, a 30-year FBI veteran, died Sunday of complications from pancreatic cancer, said his son, James M. Ingram. The elder Ingram led bureau offices in Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Wanted: Report says 560,000 fewer online job ads posted from a year ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Online job advertisements remained steady from June to July, but a national report shows over 560,000 fewer advertised vacancies last month compared with the same period a year earlier, a private research group says.

The Conference Board released its monthly Help-Wanted Online Data Series report on Monday.
Online job advertisements increased by a modest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge portrayed in &#8216;Ghosts of Mississippi&#8217; pleads guilty to obstruction for lying to FBI agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABERDEEN, Miss. — A Mississippi judge known for prosecuting a white supremacist decades after a civil rights-era killing has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for lying to an FBI agent investigating corruption.

Bobby DeLaughter entered the plea Thursday. In exchange, prosecutors dismissed conspiracy and mail fraud charges.
DeLaughter was accused of giving an unfair advantage to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSHA investigating plant explosion in northeast Mississippi that killed 1, injured 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Federal investigators were gathering information Thursday, one day after an explosion killed a man and injured three others at copper tubing plant in northeast Mississippi.

It was the third fatality at the plant since 2008.
Itawamba County Coroner Steven McNeece said Phillip Cason Hosch, 29, of Sulligent, Ala., died in the blast about 4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court asked to review reputed Klansman&#8217;s conviction in civil rights-era cold case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court should decide whether a reputed Ku Klux Klansman should have been tried on a kidnapping charge 43 years after two black men were abducted and slain in rural Mississippi, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

A majority of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said other Civil Rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 dead, several hurt in explosion at Mueller Copper Tube Co. in northeast Mississippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FULTON, Miss. — One person was killed and others injured in an explosion Wednesday at a copper tubing plant in northeast Mississippi, emergency officials said.

Itawamba County Coroner Steven McNeece says Phillip Cason Hosch, 29, of Sulligent, Ala., died in the blast that happened about 4 p.m. at Mueller Copper Tube in Fulton. McNeese did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney: &#8216;Ghosts of Mississippi&#8217; judge Bobby DeLaughter to plead guilty to lying to FBI agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelia Byrd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi judge known for successfully prosecuting a white supremacist decades after a civil rights-era killing will plead guilty to lying to an FBI agent investigating judicial corruption, the judge&#8217;s attorney said Tuesday.

Thomas Durkin said Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter will enter the plea in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen. Trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bikini-clad Miss. woman charged with carjacking and attempted robbery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Police in Mississippi say a woman was carjacked by a bikini-clad suspect, who they say later tried to rob an RV dealership. Southaven Police Chief Tom Long said the 24-year-old suspect approached another woman in her driveway and demanded the car on Thursday. The woman gave up the car without a fight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvation Army says donation slump could hinder its ability to give long-term disaster aid</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/salvation-army-says-donation-slump-could-hinder-its-ability-to-give-long-term-disaster-aid-116831/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelia Byrd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — The Salvation Army is struggling with dwindling donations across the country that will make it hard to give long-term assistance after a disaster, and a spokesman for the charity says &#8220;we have to hope and pray&#8221; this year&#8217;s hurricane season is mild.

The organization will continue to provide the basics — food, water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mississippi DE Greg Hardy should be ready for preseason, in walking boot after car wreck</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OXFORD, Miss. — Mississippi defensive end Greg Hardy should be ready for the start of preseason practice after a car accident 10 days ago.

Hardy was nearing the end of rehabilitation after a second surgery to repair a broken bone in his right foot when the accident aggravated the injury again.
The preseason first-team all-Southeastern Conference selection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction: Governors Convention story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — In a July 18 story on a discussion by the nation&#8217;s governors on federal stimulus funds, The Associated Press misstated when most of the stimulus money disappears. The correct date is December 2010, midway through the next budget year for many states, not December 2012.
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		<title>Governors see Katrina recovery on Miss. coast, but locals still struggle near convention site</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wagster Pettus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILOXI, Miss. — Governors attending their national convention on Mississippi&#8217;s Gulf Coast have seen signs of Hurricane Katrina recovery — glitzy casinos packed with tourists, new condominium towers rising along the beach, the major expansion of a bustling state port.

However, unless the governors skip the receptions with cocktails and jumbo shrimp, they probably won&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governors say they don&#8217;t want added federal expenses for health care, secure driver&#8217;s licenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILOXI, Miss. — Many of the nation&#8217;s governors said Sunday they don&#8217;t want Congress to force states to pick up extra expenses, from health care to national security.

Democrats and Republicans attending the summer convention of the National Governors Association said state budgets are already strained by recession. Governors meet twice yearly to seek bipartisan consensus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governors: Federal stimulus money helped many states avoid deep cuts in public services</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILOXI, Miss. — A bipartisan group of governors said Saturday that the federal stimulus package helped states avoid deep budget cuts during the recession. But some at the National Governors Association convention said they&#8217;re not pushing for another infusion of cash from Washington.

&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s an appetite for it,&#8221; Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steel company announces plans for Mississippi plant that could bring 50 jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS, Miss. — A new steel processing plant could bring a $15 million investment and eventually 50 jobs to Lowndes County, the company&#8217;s president and economic development officials said.

Mississippi Steel Processing president Chip Gerber said Thursday the upstart company will begin construction of a 160,000-square-foot plant in September in the Golden Triangle Industrial Park.
Gerber said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estranged wife of ex-Miss. GOP congressman Pickering files lawsuit claiming he had affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wagster Pettus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — The estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career.

Leisha Pickering said in the lawsuit filed this week that her husband and the woman dated in college, reconnected and began having an affair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estranged wife of ex-Miss. congressman Pickering files lawsuit claiming he had affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — The estranged wife of former Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit filed this week that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career.

Leisha Pickering seeks unspecified damages in the alienation of affection lawsuit she filed against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd of Jackson.
There was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: Man accused of using stun gun in Miss., La. rapes was briefly detained during spree</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Police say a man accused of using a stun gun in rapes in Mississippi and Louisiana was briefly jailed but released during a weeklong crime spree.

Authorities say James H. Crockett of Chalmette, La., was jailed on a drug charge in Alabama after the first two attacks but before a third attempted rape.
Florence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling to balance budgets, state lawmakers seek nickel-and-dime cuts in basic services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — South Dakota eliminated grants for mosquito spraying. Illinois stopped paying for funerals for the poor. Kansas reduced mowing along highways and turned off air conditioning in government buildings earlier than usual.

As states across the nation struggle to balance their budgets, lawmakers are seeking savings any way they can, even if it means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church bus carrying youth group to Georgia crashes, killing 1 and injuring 23 in Mississippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MERIDIAN, Miss. — A bus carrying a church youth group from Louisiana to Georgia flipped Sunday on Interstate 20 in Mississippi, killing one person and injuring 23 others, a coroner said.

The bus, from First Baptist Church in Shreveport, La., rolled three times around 10:20 a.m. near Meridian and trapped at least two people underneath, Lauderdale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church bus carrying youth group to Georgia crashes, killing 1 and injuring 27 in Mississippi</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MERIDIAN, Miss. — A bus carrying a church youth group from Louisiana to Georgia flipped Sunday on Interstate 20 in Mississippi, killing one person and injuring 27 others, a coroner said.

The bus, from First Baptist Church in Shreveport, La., rolled three times around 10:20 a.m. near Meridian and trapped at least two people underneath, Lauderdale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White freedom rider returns to heroic honor in Miss., where her civil rights work was scorned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wagster Pettus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head — a calm and subtle melody that hadn&#8217;t found its shape. The 19-year-old college student simply needed a hero to visualize before he could finish his composition for wind ensemble.

He found inspiration in an unexpected place. And instead of a hero, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Wanted: Report says online job ads decreased by over 500,000 in June from a year earlier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Online job advertisements declined by over 500,000 in June compared with the same period a year earlier, but a national report shows only a modest decrease from May, a private research group says.

The Conference Board released its monthly Help-Wanted Online Data Series report this week.
Online advertised vacancies were about 3.29 million in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mississippi jury rules against Sherwin-Williams in lead paint contamination lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — A southwest Mississippi jury has ruled paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams Co. was liable for the illnesses of a Mississippi boy who ate lead-contaminated paint chips.

The Jefferson County Circuit Court jury awarded $7 million in damages in the lawsuit filed on behalf of Trellvion Gaines and his mother, Shermeker Pollard of Fayette.
The ruling is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge sets July 15 deadline for proposed settlements in Morgan Freeman lawsuit over car wreck</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge says actor Morgan Freeman and the woman suing him over a car wreck should submit settlement proposals to the court by July 15.

Demaris Meyer claims the 71-year-old Oscar-winning actor was negligent when the car he was driving ran off the side of a rural Mississippi highway in August. Meyer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss. officials approve historical marker for infamous 1964 slayings of civil rights workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

The state Department of Archives and History authorized the marker on Mississippi 19 in Neshoba County.
On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were ambushed and later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Champions Tour golfer Ken Green in good condition after leg amputation following RV crash</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/champions-tour-golfer-ken-green-in-good-condition-after-leg-amputation-following-rv-crash-82253/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Talbott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Champions Tour golfer Ken Green&#8217;s lower right leg was amputated Monday following a recreational vehicle accident last week in which his brother and girlfriend died.

He was under sedation and in good condition after the three-hour operation at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Green&#8217;s agent and close friend Kevin Richardson said.
&#8220;He&#8217;s safe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injured Champions Tour golfer Ken Green to have his lower right leg amputated after accident</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/injured-champions-tour-golfer-ken-green-to-have-his-lower-right-leg-amputated-after-accident-81477/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Talbott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Champions Tour golfer Ken Green, who was injured in a recreational vehicle crash in Mississippi that killed his brother and girlfriend, will have his lower right leg amputated, his agent said Sunday.

Kevin Richardson said Green is struggling with the &#8220;double whammy&#8221; of the deaths and his own career-threatening injuries.
&#8220;Initially they were hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agent: Champions Tour golfer Ken Green hurt in car crash to have lower right leg amputated</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/agent-champions-tour-golfer-ken-green-hurt-in-car-crash-to-have-lower-right-leg-amputated-81462/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Talbott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — The agent for Ken Green says the Champions Tour golfer who was hurt in a car crash will have his lower right leg amputated below the knee.

The surgery set for Monday comes a week after Green&#8217;s brother and girlfriend were killed in the accident in eastern Mississippi.
Kevin Richardson told The Associated Press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss. governor, former Washington lobbyist, testing GOP waters for 2012 in Iowa, New Hampshire</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/miss-governor-former-washington-lobbyist-testing-gop-waters-for-2012-in-iowa-new-hampshire-81244/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wagster Pettus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — If the Republican Party is in danger of being marginalized as a conservative, white male Southern enclave, is Haley Barbour — the longtime Washington power broker and current Mississippi governor — the best person to turn things around?

Many rank-and-file Republicans and party leaders say yes, as the 61-year-old Barbour prepares to ramp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actor Morgan Freeman denies allegations by woman who was in his car when it flipped in Miss.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — The woman in the passenger seat the night Morgan Freeman crashed a car on a rural Mississippi highway was partly to blame for the accident, the actor&#8217;s attorney said Friday in court papers.

Demaris Meyer is suing the 71-year-old actor in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss., claiming Freeman was negligent when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reputed Miss. Klansman convicted in 1964 kidnappings asks for ruling on statute of limitations</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/reputed-miss-klansman-convicted-in-1964-kidnappings-asks-for-ruling-on-statute-of-limitations-79942/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — A reputed Ku Klux Klansman convicted two years ago in the 1964 kidnappings of two black men asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to decide whether the statute of limitations had expired before prosecutors charged him.

James Ford Seale, now 73, was found guilty in June 2007 of abducting two 19-year-old friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation day in prison: Seminary awards degrees, trains inmates to be missionaries inside</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelia Byrd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARCHMAN, Miss. — The graduates patted each other&#8217;s backs, and nervously chatted with their families. Some sat quietly, meditating about their future while others wept.

It could have been a scene from any of the thousands of commencement ceremonies this year. But these graduates were convicted killers, rapists and drug dealers at Mississippi&#8217;s only maximum security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro golfer Ken Green injured in fatal accident in Mississippi; brother, girlfriend killed</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pro-golfer-ken-green-injured-in-fatal-accident-in-mississippi-brother-girlfriend-killed-76660/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Talbott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Pro golfer Ken Green&#8217;s brother and girlfriend were killed in a recreational vehicle accident in which Green also was hurt.

Green was driving on Interstate 20 near Hickory, Miss., on Monday when the right front tire of his RV blew out. Green was unable to control the vehicle and ran off the road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piney Woods Pellets officially opens $10 million feedstock plant in Mississippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WIGGINS, Miss. — A $10 million wood pellet plant opened Monday in Stone County and company officials say the 12,000 square-foot facility will produce feedstock for alternative energy.

Gray Swoope, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, took part in a dedication ceremony Monday for Piney Woods Pellets, according to a company statement.
The plant will employ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governors warn that unfocused energy plan and costs could stifle growth in South and elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sayre</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILOXI, Miss. — The price of electricity and fuel could rise sharply and economic growth could be stifled in the Southeast and elsewhere in the country under tax proposals being considered in Washington, several southern governors said Monday.

During an energy conference sponsored by the Southern Growth Policies Board, the chief executives — both Democrat and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss. governor warns that carbon and energy taxes could stifle growth in South and elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sayre</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILOXI, Miss. — The price of electricity and fuel could rise sharply and economic growth could be stifled in the Southeast and elsewhere in the U.S. under tax proposals now pending in Washington, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday.

At the opening of an energy conference sponsored by the Southern Growth Policies Board, the second-term Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals court upholds convictions for Miss. Klansman in 1964 kidnappings of 2 black teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — A reputed Ku Klux Klansman will remain in prison after a federal appeals court&#8217;s split ruling wiped out his acquittal in the kidnappings of two black teenagers who were slain in 1964.

James Ford Seale, 73, was found guilty in June 2007 of abducting the teens who authorities said were beaten, weighted down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Wanted: Report says online job ads increased by 250K in May</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy R. Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Online job advertisements rose by 250,000 in May, the largest monthly increase since October 2006, a private research group says.

The Conference Board report said there were about 3.36 million online job ads last month, up from about 3.11 million in April but down from 3.79 million online ads a year earlier.
The May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: Woman angry about brother&#8217;s life sentence rams 81-year-old scam victim&#8217;s car</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERNANDO, Miss. — Authorities said Bessie Lou Phillips was so mad her brother was sentenced to life in prison for scamming an elderly woman she followed the victim and rammed her car. Phillips, 42, was charged Tuesday with attempted aggravated assault after the unidentified victim was rammed.

Police said Phillips is the sister of 41-year-old Manuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mississippi State: Jarvis Varnado decides against going pro, will return for senior season</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 08:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State center Jarvis Varnado will return for his senior season after deciding not to turn pro.

The school announced the decision late Monday.
The nation&#8217;s leading shot blocker for two straight seasons will make a run at the NCAA record for career blocks in 2009-10. He is 19 blocks shy of breaking Shaquille [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flamboyant mayor of Mississippi&#8217;s largest city dies days after losing re-election bid</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/flamboyant-mayor-of-mississippis-largest-city-dies-days-after-losing-re-election-bid-55873/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 03:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holbrook Mohr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Right or wrong, Frank Melton did things his way.

The flamboyant mayor of Mississippi&#8217;s largest city refused to back down, whether he was posting pictures of drug dealers on billboards or leading a sledgehammer attack on a duplex he considered a crack house. If nothing else, he was passionate, maybe too passionate, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spokeswoman: Indicted Jackson, Miss., Mayor Frank Melton dies after losing re-election bid</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/spokeswoman-indicted-jackson-miss-mayor-frank-melton-dies-after-losing-re-election-bid-55474/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holbrook Mohr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — A city spokeswoman says the indicted mayor of Mississippi&#8217;s largest city has died less than two days he lost his bid for a second term in office.

Jackson spokeswoman Goldia Revies says Mayor Frank Melton died peacefully early Thursday with his wife by his side at the hospital where he was taken by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Not Wanted: Report says 131K fewer online job ads posted in April</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/help-not-wanted-report-says-131k-fewer-online-job-ads-posted-in-april-53291/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy R. Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Online job advertisements fell by 131,000 in April and the drop has resulted in a decline of more than 1.32 million advertised vacancies in the last six months.

The national report by The Conference Board follows a dip of 100,000 ads in March, but is well below the record declines of 507,000 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mississippi county aerates courthouse lawn trying to find time capsule before bicentennial</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mississippi-county-aerates-courthouse-lawn-trying-to-find-time-capsule-before-bicentennial-45677/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY, Miss. — County officials in Mississippi are digging for a time capsule ahead of their weekend bicentennial celebration.

One problem: They don&#8217;t know exactly where it is.
It was buried in 1978 somewhere beside the Amite (ah-&#8217;MITT) County Courthouse in Liberty.
There was a marker for it, but Mayor Ricky Stratton says that was moved in 1984.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss. appeals court agrees tire, not alcohol or speed caused crash that killed 1, injured 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Holbrook Mohr</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Three young friends were drinking on a summer night in 2000 when their speeding sports car blew a tire and careered off a rural Mississippi highway, killing one and injuring the other two.

The young men&#8217;s families — and a jury — blamed the accident on a faulty tire on the Chevrolet Camaro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>45 years after Freedom Summer, Miss. quietly gets rid of laws meant to thwart civil rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/45-years-after-freedom-summer-miss-quietly-gets-rid-of-laws-meant-to-thwart-civil-rights-32340/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — While researching a case, attorney Ed Blackmon stumbled across leftovers of Mississippi&#8217;s segregationist past — laws enacted to discourage the fight for equal rights for blacks.

They were the same laws authorities used to arrest him nearly 45 years ago when he was a teenager attending a protest to support black voter registration. [...]]]></description>
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