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Pardoned man wants clean slate
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed,07/10/13-5:22PM , 141 Reads
VICKSBURG — A Vicksburg man has asked a Warren County judge to wipe clean his criminal record.

Clarence Jones received an indefinite suspension of his life sentence and was released from prison in 2004 from Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. Jones had served as trusty at the Governor’s Mansion. He was pardoned by Gov. Haley Barbour in 2008.
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Casinos’ creditors approve bankruptcy exit
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Tue,07/09/13-5:50PM , 91 Reads
JACKSON — Having failed in an attempt to sell the two DiamondJacks casinos to an Oklahoma Indian tribe, creditors are bringing the Bossier City, La., and Vicksburg, Miss., gambling halls out of bankruptcy themselves, hiring Mississippi’s Foundation Gambling Group to try to improve operations.
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New trial date set in ricin case
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Tue,07/09/13-5:47PM , 116 Reads
ABERDEEN — An October trial date is set for a 41-year-old Tupelo man accused in a poison-letter scheme aimed at President Obama and two other elected officials.

On Monday, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock granted a delay from July 29 until Oct. 7 to try James Everett Dutschke.
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Former lawmaker Bean dies at 80, is hailed as ‘good man’
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Tue,07/09/13-4:12PM , 140 Reads
HATTIESBURG (AP) — Former state Sen. James L. “Jim” Bean, who championed rural health care and programs for children and the elderly, died Sunday in Hattiesburg. He was 80.

Officials with Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home said Bean died Sunday at Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg. He had suffered a stroke a few weeks earlier.
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