Skip to content

News

News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 5, 2008

In Mississippi, Voter Turnout May Not Help Democrats

Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove’s run for the U.S. Senate would seem to benefit from the record crowds and jammed polling places generated by Barack Obama presidential campaign. Obama has mounted a massive effort to increase black turnout in the South — an effort that could bear fruit for Democrats in Republican-leaning states such as…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 4, 2008

Ex-lawyer presses court for freedom

The Clarion-Ledger, 9/4/8 Former Mississippi trial lawyer Paul Minor, convicted in March 2007 of bribing two judges, is asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider his petition to get out of prison. The 5th Circuit last month denied Minor’s appeal of an order denying him bail. The court said the 62-year-old Minor…