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An event worker removes the tarp of the Emmett Till statue during its unveiling, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022 in Greenwood, Miss. Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched, Aug. 28,1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, in her family's grocery store in Money. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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'Change has come': Mississippi unveils Emmett Till statue
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,10/21/22-12:45AM , 258 Reads
GREENWOOD, Miss.
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Director: State does not track welfare program results
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,10/19/22-2:00AM , 656 Reads
JACKSON — Mississippi’s scandal-plagued welfare program turns away most applicants for cash assistance, and it has not been tracking whether its programs fulfill the goal of lifting people out of poverty in one of the poorest states in the nation, lawmakers were told Tuesday.
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Rep. Robert L. Johnson III, House Minority Leader, left, listens a Sen. Derrick T. Simmons, Senate Minority Leader, addresses reporters following a public hearing by Mississippi House and Senate Democratic Caucuses, to gain a better understanding of the welfare scandal, held at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Director: Mississippi does not track welfare program results
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Tue,10/18/22-5:52PM , 430 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's scandal-plagued welfare program turns away most applicants for cash assistance, and it has not been tracking whether its programs fulfill the goal of lifting people out of poverty in one of the poorest states in the nation, lawmakers were told Tuesday.
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In this May 25, 2022, photo released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections is Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. The Mississippi attorney general's office is asking the state to set an execution date for Loden, now 58. The former U.S. Marine Corps recruiter was convicted in the 2000 rape and killing of a 16-year-old waitress, and has been on death row since 2001, when he pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

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Attorney: Don't set execution amid lethal injection lawsuit
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Mon,10/17/22-1:09PM , 195 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi should not set an execution date for an inmate who has been on death row 21 years because he is part of an ongoing federal lawsuit that challenges the state's execution method, his attorney says.
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