Miss. Gov. Faces Rage, Heckling After Suspending Life Sentence of Convicted S...

Mississippi clearly needs a new governor. Gov. Haley Barbour has previously let five other convicted killers go."The last thing a governor wants - and especially a law-and-order Republican governor - is a controversy over a pardon or commutation of sentence, especially when...

Indian Shipyard Workers in Mississippi Charge US Company with Human Trafficking

Patrice Riemens sent news of this to nettime. More than 100 Indian guest workers brought to Mississippi under Bush's guest worker program to work in a shipyard operated by Signal International have charged the company with human trafficking. The workers report that they paid...

Trent Lott to Resign by End of Year

Another Republican Senator to retire, this time it's the #2."Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, plans to resign his seat by the end of the year, congressional and Bush administration...

Horrible new form of skin boils spreading out from Katrina area

Dwayne's girlfriend works in an ambulance in Henderson and she just sent me this email about a new horrible skin boil that smells bad and hurts worse and Krissie says her ambulance friends are worried about it...

'Til we meet

This is a follow up to a story published at NowPublic, a little over 2 months ago, The new, new normal, which tells the story of one family's efforts to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina."If...

Joanna Proctor and 2 Children Missing from Pascagoula, MS

My parents and I (Regena) are very worried about my sister Joanna Proctor and her 2 children Kurtis 16 and Melissa 10. Melissa has seizures and needs her medication they have been missing from Pascagaula,...

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