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Guard Killed, 19 Injured in Mississippi Prison Riot

Officials battle to bring privately run facility under control

(Newser) - A 23-year-old guard has been killed and 16 workers injured in a riot by hundreds of inmates at a private Mississippi prison. Three inmates were also hospitalized, though one has since been returned to prison. The riot broke out at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez at around 2:...

Man Arrested in Highway Deaths Didn't Pose as Cop

James Willie had gun used in murders in his possession: Mississippi police

(Newser) - Last night, word was police had detained a suspected police impostor following two murders on Mississippi highways; he hadn't been charged. Now they're holding another man on kidnapping, assault, and rape charges, with capital murder charges forthcoming in the case, the AP reports. Authorities say James Willie, 28,...

Mississippi Police Hold Suspected Impersonator

He has not been charged

(Newser) - Police in Mississippi have taken into a custody a man suspected of posing as a police officer in the wake of two fatal shootings , report WLBT3 and WJTV12 of Jackson. Police detained a 45-year-old Yazoo City man after two more motorists reported being pulled over last night. Both drivers got...

Miss. Cops to Drivers: Don't Pull Over for Flashing Lights

It may be fake cop behind highway murders

(Newser) - If you're in Mississippi and a car with flashing lights tries to pull you over, just keep driving, police say. Two people were shot dead near their cars in the space of a few days, and investigators suspect somebody impersonating a police officer could be to blame . "If...

Fake Cop Blamed in Mississippi Murders

Coroner: This stuff is TV-worthy

(Newser) - Police are stumped as to who's behind a pair of Mississippi highway murders, but they have some ideas: The killer could be a police impostor, they say. Over the course of three days, two people were separately found dead in their cars—both on the sides of highways, Reuters...

Cops Arrest Wife, Mother of Kidnapping Suspect

Manhunt continues for Adam Mayes, two teenage girls

(Newser) - The net widened today in the case of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls as authorities charged his wife and mother in connection with the abduction. As an intense manhunt for Adam Mayes and the two...

Dead Mom, Teen Found, Cops Fear for Sisters

Cops race clock to save daughters from kidnapper

(Newser) - The bodies of a Tennessee mom and her teenage daughter have been discovered, and police are in a race against time to save two younger sisters snatched by the suspected killer. Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne, were discovered dead behind the Mississippi home of murder suspect...

Mississippi Home to Most Teen Births

55 out of every 1K girls ages 15 to 19 have a baby there

(Newser) - Mississippi continues its No. 1 streak: It takes top honors as America's most religious and fattest state , and now it's also claimed the crown when it comes to teen births. The highest rate was once more observed in Mississippi, according to a new government report, but the good...

Mississippi May Close Only Abortion Clinic

Bill would make facility's doctors ineligible to work there

(Newser) - Mississippi has just one abortion clinic, and a bill that's passed the state legislature would likely close it. All it needs now is a governor's signature, and Phil Bryant has said he'll provide it. Under the bill, doctors performing abortions in an "abortion facility" would have...

The Most Religious State in America Is...

...Mississippi. South tops the list, while New England is at the bottom

(Newser) - Don't tell Hester Prynne, but it's the Deep South that is the most religious region in the country, while New England is the most godless, according to a new Gallup Poll . The poll asked respondents whether religion was an important part of their daily life, and whether they...

MSU Student Fatally Shot in Dorm
 MSU Student Killed in Dorm 
Mar 26, 2012 1:33 AM CDT

MSU Student Killed in Dorm

Jackson State student shot dead next day at off-campus party

(Newser) - A Mississippi State University student was fatally shot in a dorm on Saturday, and a second student attending a Mississippi college was killed at an off-campus party yesterday. John Sanderson, 21, died shortly after three suspects fled his Starkville residence hall. "The perpetrators fled our campus, but we're...

3 Guilty of Hate Crimes in Mississippi Murder

Trio attacked black people for sport

(Newser) - Three young white men in Mississippi have become the first people in the Deep South convicted under a 2009 federal hate crime law. Deryl Dedmon, 19—who pleaded guilty to murder earlier this state murder charges—and two accomplices admitted that they repeatedly drove to the city of Jackson to...

Mississippi Teen Pleads Guilty to Race-Hate Murder

Deryl Dedmon gets life for running over black man

(Newser) - A white Mississippi teenager who murdered a black man because of the color of his skin has received two life sentences after pleading guilty to killing the victim by driving over him with his pickup in a hate crime. Authorities say Deryl Dedmon, 19, was part of a group of...

Santorum Wins Alabama, Mississippi

Romney finishes third in both states

(Newser) - Mitt Romney may have hoped to deliver a devastating blow to Rick Santorum's campaign tonight, but voters in the South had other ideas: Santorum has won the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, reports Politico . What's more, Romney ended up running third to Newt Gingrich in both states. A...

Half of GOP Voters in Miss., Ala. Think Obama Is Muslim
Half of GOP Voters in Miss., Ala. Think Obama Is Muslim
Poll numbers
Mar 12, 2012 10:53 AM CDT

Half of GOP Voters in Miss., Ala. Think Obama Is Muslim

Only 12% said he was Christian in Public Policy Polling survey

(Newser) - Despite years of assertions to the contrary, a chunk of voters continue to believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Mediaite noticed this nugget in this morning's Public Policy Polling survey from Alabama and Mississippi: Asked what religion the president is, a whopping 45% of GOP voters in Alabama,...

Razor-Thin Margins in Alabama, Mississippi

 Alabama, 
 Mississippi: 
 It's a Tossup 
tomorrow's primaries
Mar 12, 2012 7:57 AM CDT

Alabama, Mississippi: It's a Tossup

Gingrich, Romney, Santorum in race to the finish

(Newser) - As Alabama and Mississippi prepare to head to the polls tomorrow, both states remain up for grabs. Mitt Romney has the thinnest of edges in Alabama, Public Policy Polling finds: He's currently poised to take 31% of the vote to Newt Gingrich's 30%—but Rick Santorum is right...

Mississippi High Court OKs Haley Barbour Pardons

Attorney general had challenged their constitutionality

(Newser) - Looks like Haley Barbour is in the clear: The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the controversial pardons the Republican former governor made before leaving office, the AP reports. The state's Democratic attorney general had challenged some of the 198 pardons, saying they fell short of a state requirement: Those...

Barbour's Pardoned Convicts Go Missing

Mississippi AG seeks 5 men who didn't meet clemency requirements

(Newser) - First, Haley Barbour issued a spate of controversial last-minute pardons ; then, a judge rejected a number of them , calling back five men who'd been released from prison. But the dust still hasn't settled: Those five men, convicted of murder and robbery, are nowhere to be found. The Mississippi...

Miss. Judge Quashes Barbour Pardons

Blocks release of 21 still in prison, orders 5 more in for hearing

(Newser) - So much for Haley Barbour's grand pardons: A Mississippi judge has put the kibosh on some of the former governor's last-minute spate of 200 pardons, blocking the release of 21 inmates still imprisoned and hauling in five more who had been released for hearings. The ruling came hours...

Barbour Takes Heat for Pardoning Murderers

He has said that pardoning mansion workers is a tradition

(Newser) - Haley Barbour has issued last-minute pardons to at least five convicts who worked for him at the governor's mansion—four of whom were convicted of murder, and one who was denied parole less than two weeks ago, MSNBC reports. The Mississippi governor, who left office yesterday, has said in...

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