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October 22, 2008

Melton Was Drinking

WJTV, 10/21/8 Federal prosecutors are calling Jackson Mayor Frank Melton’s destruction of an alleged crack house a “whiskey soaked, arbitrary exercise of power and violence.” The 59-year-old Melton and two police bodyguards were charged in July with violating the civil rights of two people in a sledgehammer attack on a duplex the mayor considered a…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 22, 2008

Musgrove, Wicker both face referendum on their parties

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 10/22/8 After watching television for the last few months, I no longer recognize the politicians formerly known as Ronnie Musgrove and Roger Wicker. The two men I knew each had strengths and weaknesses. Both of them had enjoyed successes and failures. They had been friends, close enough at one time back when…