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Red Flags in Downtown Bars
While eating at the bar at a downtown restaurant or enjoying a beverage at the King Edward Hotel Bar on a weeknight, it's not at all unusual to strike up …
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City & County
Couple Donates 30,000 Books to Honor Late Mayor
Although Richard and Sandra Koritz are not originally from Mississippi, it's safe to say they have earned their place as honorary Jacksonians thanks to their recent donation of more than …
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Politics
Despite Talk, No Way to Prove Voter ID's Effects
The use of voter ID for the first time in Mississippi has largely been characterized as inconsequential.
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14 Miss. School Districts Sue Over Underfunding
Fourteen Mississippi school districts sued the state Thursday, seeking money they say they were illegally shorted by the state's public school funding formula over the last six years.
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Ukraine's Leader Talks with NATO About Closer Ties
Undeterred by threats from Russia that Ukraine's NATO ambitions would derail peace talks, Ukraine's leader discussed closer ties with NATO at a meeting Thursday with President Barack Obama and other …
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Serious Respiratory Illness Hits Hundreds of Kids
Hundreds of children in more than 10 states have been sickened by a severe respiratory illness that public health officials say may be caused by an uncommon virus similar to …
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National
Ferguson Plans Reform After Michael Brown Shooting
A 2013 report by the Missouri attorney general's office found that Ferguson police stopped and arrested black drivers nearly twice as often as white motorists, but were less likely to …
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Protests, Anger, Doubt Prevail at Ferguson Meeting
Elected leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer hoped to use their first public meeting since Michael Brown's …
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State
Mississippi Asks Judge to Throw Out Mental Health Lawsuit
Mississippi officials are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging how the state runs its mental health system, but the U.S. Department of Justice, in papers filed …
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Politics
Mississippi Considers Limiting Property Owners' Liability
Mississippi senators are advancing a bill that would limit people's ability to sue property owners for injuries or other problems.
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Jim Hood Says He'll Defend the State In Lawsuit Against State Flag, But Flag Should Change
Mississippi's attorney general said Wednesday that he will defend his state's flag against a lawsuit that seeks to remove its Confederate battle emblem, even though he thinks the flag hurts …
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The Cult Of Irresponsibility
Just how bad of a newspaper is The Clarion-Ledger? A hint comes three-quarters of the way into Executive Editor Ronnie Agnew's "end of the year" column (Jan. 1, 2006). The …
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Photog-in-Residence: Christina Cannon
"I'm not a formal photographer at all,so when people hire me, I let them know that up –front. I'm flexible, and that makes the work fulfilling for me. I like …
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Haley Barbour's New "Democrat-Lover" Nastygram
July 30, 2003: Gubernatorial hopeful, and former national GOP party head, Haley Barbour seems more stressed about Davidian challenger Mitch Tyner than you'd think. A rather breathtaking nasty-politics flyer landed …
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National
Obama Administration Helped Kill Transparency Push on Military Aid
The U.S. spent roughly $25 billion last year on what's loosely known as security assistance, a term that can cover everything from training Afghan security forces to sending Egypt F-16 …
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Most Intriguing Jacksonians 2010
Every year, the JFP staff revisits the big newsmakers of the year to recap the "most intriguing" Jacksonians to make the news. Some are heroes; others are, let's face it, …
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Warriors, Rescuers, Spooks: The U.S. Military's Growing Involvement In Domestic Affairs
Avian flu, hurricanes, weapons of mass destruction, drug runners, illegal immigrants, would-be terrorists, Fox News, CNN, and Google are just a few of the things Col. Tom Muir's men and …
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Integrating Yazoo: Race and Change in Haley Barbour's Hometown
Gloria Owens froze with fear as a German shepherd barreled toward her at the entrance of Yazoo City Junior High School on a fall morning in 1968. "Get that n*gger," …
