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October 15, 2008

Watching for voter fraud in Mississippi

WLBT, 10/15/8 Voter fraud is making headlines nationwide. Recently the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or ACORN has come under fire for their voter registration practices. Several states including Nevada, Ohio, and Connecticut are investigating. The Mississippi Secretary of Secretary of State’s office says the group is not facing any allegations locally. To…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 15, 2008

Miss. mayor willing to testify for co-defendant

The Sun Herald, 10/14/8 Embattled Jackson Mayor Frank Melton says he’s willing to testify that one of his bodyguards, a co-defendant in a federal criminal trial, did not participate in the sledge hammer attack on a house the mayor called a drug den. Melton, 59, and two police bodyguards were charged in July with the…