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September 22, 2009

Miss. court needs $1.7 million or it’ll shut down by April

Miss. court needs $1.7 million or it’ll shut down by April State courts would have to shut down in April when state funding is exhausted unless the legislature appropriates an additional $1.7 million from its shrinking treasury, Mississippi’s chief Supreme Court justice said Monday. “We would not have the money to operate. It’s as simple…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 22, 2009

C-L reporter Jerry Mitchell gets John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, $500,000

C-L reporter Jerry Mitchell gets John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, $500,000 Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell, who has won numerous awards for his more than two decades of reporting on unpunished killings from the civil rights era, is receiving a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation for his work. “I am so…