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Lisa Donegan speaks in an interview after a tree-lighting ceremony in Jackson on Tuesday. A Christmas tree in the Mississippi government building has been decorated to honor crime victims. The tree holds more than 600 ornaments with photos of crime victims including her son.

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For crime victims
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,12/19/18-1:40AM , 165 Reads
JACKSON — A Christmas tree in a Mississippi government building has been decorated to honor crime victims.

Attorney General Jim Hood and Gov. Phil Bryant spoke to more than 100 people Tuesday at a tree-lighting ceremony in the Gartin building, near the state Capitol in Jackson.
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Hyde-Smith holds on to US Senate seat
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,11/28/18-1:00AM , 182 Reads
JACKSON — Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who hoped to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction.
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State to try to revive abortion law
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Sat,11/24/18-2:01AM , 217 Reads
JACKSON — Mississippi’s attorney general said Friday that he will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that struck down one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States.
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Many weigh in on race
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Tue,11/20/18-2:48AM , 224 Reads
JACKSON — High-profile politicians are throwing their support to candidates in a U.S. Senate special election runoff in Mississippi, the last unresolved Senate race of the federal midterms.
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