| February 2, 2008 | -
Mississippi lawmakers introduced a bill that would make it illegal for restaurants in the state to serve obese people.
| Source:
Mississippi Legislature Introduces Bill that Would Ban Restaurants from Serving the Obese
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| April 15, 2007 | - A study surveying African-American women in the Mississippi Delta found that a majority of respondents believe anyone who gets AIDS deserves it, especially if he or she is a homosexual, bisexual, or prostitute, and that the U.S. government created HIV/AIDS to destroy the black race.
| Source:
The Clarion-Ledger
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| December 15, 2006 | -
Senator Trent Lott (R., Miss.), represented by anti-tobacco lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, was suing his insurance company after it refused to pay for the loss of his home during Hurricane Katrina.
| Source:
The Sun Herald
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| December 11, 2006 | - Moses Hardy, who at 113 was the second oldest man in the world and the last surviving black U.S. veteran of World War I, died in Mississippi.
| Source:
local6.com
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| October 11, 2006 | - The U.S. Department of Justice accused blacks of suppressing the white vote in Mississippi.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 28, 2006 | -
Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi told reporters that it's hard for Americans to understand “what's wrong” with Iraqis. “Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference?”
| Source:
CNN
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| July 24, 2006 | - Officials in Mississippi claimed to have their beaver problem under control.
| Source 1:
wjz.com
Source 2:
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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| December 15, 2005 | - Seventy-seven-year-old John B. Nixon Sr. was executed in Mississippi. Nixon was the oldest person executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
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| October 20, 2005 | -
Republican groups were calling on the federal government to halt all funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which currently receives $400 million each year in federal funding. "That is enough money," said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, "to build 40 elementary schools."
| Source:
CBC.ca
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| September 24, 2005 | -
Hurricane Rita, the third-most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, struck Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, killing 36 people and causing flooding, tornadoes, and storm surges, and re-flooding parts of New Orleans. Hurricane evacuations caused miles of traffic jams in Texas, and a bus filled with elderly people exploded when an oxygen tank caught fire, incinerating at least 24 passengers.
| Source 1:
Wikipedia
Source 2:
Houston Chronicle
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| September 9, 2005 | - Up to 3.7 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the lower Mississippi River.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| September 8, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney toured the South. "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney," yelled Ben Marble, a Mississippi physician who lost his home in the hurricane. "Go fuck yourself." Marble was handcuffed and later released.
| Source:
OpEdNews.com
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| June 23, 2005 | - In Mississippi, Edgar Ray Killen, an eighty-year-old former Baptist preacher, was sentenced to sixty years in jail for organizing the killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 24, 2005 | - A man caught a 124-pound catfish in the Mississippi River.
| Source:
AP
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| March 21, 2005 | - A naked man chased seagulls across a Mississippi beach.
| Source:
TheJacksonChannel.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - A falling tree crushed the legs of Edgar Killen, a Mississippi
Baptist minister and Ku Klux Klansman currently facing trial for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 7, 2005 | - and Edgar Ray Killen was arrested in connection with the 1964 murder of three voter-registration workers in Mississippi.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| January 17, 2004 | -
Mississippi was declared the most corrupt state in the nation.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 10, 2003 | - A racist factory worker in Mississippi who was angry at being forced to attend sensitivity training killed five co-workers and then himself.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 4, 2001 | - In Lumberton, Mississippi, a man was planning to amputate his useless feet with a guillotine live on the Internet; he hopes to raise money for prosthetic legs.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Residents of Mississippi
voted 2 to 1 to keep their rebel flag.
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| April 24, 2001 | - The Mississippi River was flooding the Midwest.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Mississippi's House of Representatives voted to hold a referendum on whether to remove the symbol of the Confederacy from its flag.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
Mississippi was thinking about removing the image of the Confederate battle flag from its state flag, which was accidently decertified in 1906.
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| December 5, 2000 | - A tanker ran aground south of New Orleans and spilled about a half-million gallons of oil into the Mississippi River.
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| August 29, 2000 | - A crowd of 4,500 spontaneously stood up, held hands, and recited the Lord's Prayer before a high school
football game in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, an action that was repeated at football games across the South.
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