Emily Wagster Pettus

April 22, 2008 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Miss. AP - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he's unhappy about corporate ownership of news organizations in the United States.He said at a press luncheon Monday he was not threatening litigation. He simply wanted to express his frustrations."Something that worries me more so than the war and Iraq and money in politics is freedom of the press," Hood said.

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June 18, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A Mississippi woman has pleaded not guilty to killing an Alabama woman by giving silicone injections as a buttocks enhancement.

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March 15, 2010 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Mississippi A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964.In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges said the evidence in the case against James Ford Seale was sufficient for the jury conviction in the trial that took place 43 years after the crimes.

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April 26, 2012 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Miss. AP - A Mississippi Senate chairman on Thursday killed a bill that could have led to a homicide criminal prosecution for anyone performing an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is found.Senate Judiciary B Committee Chairman Hob Bryan, D-Amory, said the bill is unconstitutional because lawmakers are limited in what they can do to restrict abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy under Roe v.

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April 15, 2007 | Daily Report Online

JACKSON, Miss. AP - Jury selection is set to start May 29 in the trial of James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged with kidnapping in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate set the trial date during a hearing Thursday. He also ruled that a detailed questionnaire will be used to screen the racial attitudes of potential jurors.

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March 24, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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August 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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March 18, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the legendary trial lawyer who made Big Business tremble every time he set foot in court, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to bribe a judge � a case that will send him to prison and could spell the end of his storied legal career.

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