After 16 years, man in ‘Serial’ murder case to get new trial
WASHINGTON EXAMINER OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT /The Baltimore Sun via AP). FILE - In a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016 file photo, Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing.
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Miss. LGBT law withstands 1 challenge; 3 others await
A federal judge has declined to block a Mississippi gay marriage law in one challenge filed against it. But it's still possible he will block the law after considering three other lawsuits.
‘Mississippi Burning’ case, now closed, exposed KKK terror
On June 29, 1964, the FBI began distributing these pictures of civil rights workers, from left, Michael Schwerner, 24, of New York, James Cheney, 21, from Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York, who disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss., June 21, 1964. The investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi is finally closed, the state's attorney general said Monday, June 20, 2016, 53 years almost to the day after the young men disappeared during "Freedom Summer."
Bill Minor: Mississippi’s not keeping up with the Joneses
Seldom does the monthly status report on Mississippi's economy issued by the University Research Center of the state College Board have any good news and last month's report was no different. But one piece in the report on Mississippi's population growth, or non-growth, caught my eye.
Louisiana, Mississippi react to killings at Orlando gay club
Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana is ready to support Florida in any way possible to bring justice for the people killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando.
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File photo/The Clarion-Ledger -- Used for medicinal research, marijuana plants grow in a facility on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. File photo/The Clarion-Ledger -- Marijuana plants are raised in the grow room at the University of Mississippi for research purposes.