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February 13, 2009

FBI wants info on 43 slayings

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/13/9 The FBI asked for information Thursday about 43 unsolved civil rights-era slayings in Mississippi, saying time is running out because potential witnesses and suspects are growing old or dying. The agency launched an initiative in 2006 to tackle cold cases from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, mostly in the South. Though…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 13, 2009

Feds finish case against Melton; his turn Tuesday

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/12/9 Federal prosecutors on Thursday wrapped up their case against Mayor Frank Melton and Michael Recio, his former police bodyguard – more than a day earlier than anticipated. They used their final witnesses to zero in on testimony that the mayor confessed to the raid and had an apparent disregard for the law.…