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By Elizabeth Crisp, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
Senate leaders have eliminated all taxpayer-funded out-of-state travel for the rest of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, the House is considering a proposal to limit its members to one out-of-state trip each this fiscal year, said House Management Committee Chair J.P. Compretta, D-Bay St. Louis.
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By Elizabeth Crisp, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
University leaders say they worry that talk of mergers will impact their ability to recruit students and raise money during a time when both are needed.
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Ark., Miss. let out of utility agreement
By Mark Ballard, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Federal regulators Thursday allowed Entergy Corp.'s subsidiaries in Mississippi and Arkansas to withdraw from an agreement that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds for the utility's Louisiana customers.
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Miss. high court tosses out wrongful death award
By The Associated Press, The Sun Herald (Biloxi)
A $75,000 award to a family who claimed Lisa Williams' death resulted from Laurel police officers' failure to arrest Kenneth Wilson after two distrubance calls has been thrown out by the Mississippi Supreme Court.
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Miss. levee board sues EPA over flood project
By The Associated Press, The Sun Herald (Biloxi)
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- Environmental groups have intervened in a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi levee board over the Environmental Protection Agency's veto of a $220 million flood control project that dates back decades.
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USM tragedy list continues to grow
By Ed Kemp, Hattiesburg American, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
University of Southern Mississippi senior McKenzie C. Beilmann, 24, known as "Cole," planned on traveling internationally through a career in construction. He had his eye on South America. But his death in a two-vehicle accident Wednesday evening on U.S. 98 deprived him of that chance. Instead, it places him on a tragic list with six other Southern Miss students to die this semester.
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Victims' kin in civil-rights era cases sought
By Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
The FBI is seeking to find family members of 33 people slain during the civil rights movement. A third of those killings took place in Mississippi, including that of Jimmie Lee Griffin, whose body was discovered on a highway near Sturgis on Sept. 24, 1965.
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US survey -- Southern counties most obese
By Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press, Montgomery Advertiser
ATLANTA -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia, with two Alabama counties -- Greene and Dallas -- having adult obesity rates that are among the highest in the nation.
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