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Retarded Texas Rapist Executed Two Days Ago
What qualifies a rapist from avoiding the death penalty? Should those convicted of heinous crimes such as rape and murder be held accountable if they are mentally ill or mentally retarded? That was the debate in Texas, where on December 3rd Bobby Woods...
Tags: Bobby Wayne Woods, child killer, Texasexecutions, death penalty, crime, murder, rape, child, mental retardation, insanity defense, woods, mental illness, lethal injection, Alabama, Mississippi, California, legal system, prison, Sarah Patterson, Cody Patterson, Dallas, Jody Milton, United States Supreme Court, IQ, Texas Law, state prison, Huntsville, TExas
Southwest Louisiana get earliest snowfall ever
The National Weather Service says that four inches of snow northeast of Brookhaven Mississippi, three inches from Smithdale La to Fort Polk La and some snow in Texas. Families is snow areas got enough snpw to make snowmen in their front yards. Some bridges...
Tags: National Weather Service, Louisana, Mississippi, Smithdale, Brookhaven, Fort Polk, Texas, snowfall, snowman, bridges, overpass, icy roads, freezing tempatures
Episcopal priest from Miss. elected bishop in La.
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 18 hours ago
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Morris Thompson, a native of Mississippi and dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Ky., was elected Saturday as the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana...Thompson was one of six candidates considered by Episcopal clergy and lay representatives...
Tags: Christ Church Cathedral, Grace Episcopal Church, Morris Thompson, Lexington, U.S. Episcopal, theological seminary, Mississippi, New Orleans, Sewanee: The University of the South, Education, Albert R. Stuart, Dean, Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, Religion Belief
Younger Favre a chip off the old Brett
Kiln :: MS :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Miss. — There's a guy named Favre who's having an MVP season, owns all the records you can name and has his team poised to win a title...We're talking about Dylan Favre, the 17-year-old high school senior who lives in the long shadow of his famous relative...
Tags: Dylan Favre, Brett Favre, Mississippi, younger favre, Uncle Brett, Kiln, Deanna Favre, allnews, Favre, Green Bay Packers players
New Orleans bonfires get go-ahead
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility New Orleans' traditional Christmas Eve bonfires have been given the go-ahead after being held up because of high water on the Mississippi River, officials said. The festive fires are traditionally prepared on the parishes' many levees during Thanksgiving...
Tags: New Orleans, Levee, Environment, Geotechnical engineering, Mississippi, Greater New Orleans
Round Island Lighthouse coming to Pascagoula
Pascagoula :: MS :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson voted unanimously today to change the scope of a $250,000 state grant it had given the city in 2003 for restoring the lighthouse on the island...Pascagoula plans to...
Tags: Round Island Lighthouse, Pascagoula, U.S, Jaci Turner, Jackson County Mississippi, Harrison County Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina, Lighthouse, Mississippi, Biloxi Mississippi, Round Island
Mississippi governor says economic project on hold as company seeks private financing
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility A manufacturing company that wants to build a $300 million plant in the job-hungry Mississippi Delta is still trying to arrange private financing, so plans for a special legislative session for the project are on hold, Gov. Haley Barbour said. "We're...
Tags: Haley Barbour, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, private financing, Tunica County, Minneapolis, Tunica County Mississippi, Memphis metropolitan area, Business Finance, Mississippi
American colonel survived seven years in notorious Vietnamese prison camp
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 2 days ago
Credibility Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the “Hanoi Hilton,” has died at 82. The Mississippi native died Wednesday after battling a brain tumour, said his brother, 62-year-old...
Tags: Jack Pitchford, survived seven, prison camp, Mississippi, Hanoi Hilton, camp known, fighter pilot, Vietnamese, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, John McCain, Scots-Irish Americans, Military brats, Hanoi, Natchez Mississippi, Prisoner of war camps, John A. Dramesi, Natchez people, Republican National Convention, International Republican Institute
Miss. giving $520,000 grant to build railroad spur
Horn Lake :: MS :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Miss. — The state of Mississippi is providing $520,000 to the city of Horn Lake for construction of a railroad spur line that will service the expansion of Newly Weds Foods. The grant was provided through the Mississippi Freight Rail Revolving Loan/Grant...
Tags: Newly Weds Foods, Mississippi Development Authority, railroad spur, Horn Lake, AM Miss., Mississippi basin, Memphis metropolitan area, Business Finance, DeSoto County Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Breading
Fed disaster declaration lets La. farmers seek aid
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A federal disaster declaration announced Monday allows Louisiana farmers affected by early-season drought and late-season rains to seek emergency loans or other aid. The declaration, covering much of the planting and production year, April through October,...
Tags: Louisiana, federal disaster, disaster declared, New Orleans, Environment, Disaster Accident, Tom Vilsack, Kￄﾫlauea, Southern United States, Barack Obama, Volcano, Mississippi, Hawaii, States of the United States
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