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October 31, 2007

Group’s Goal: More Teachers, Fewer Dropouts

With one of the highest drop out rates in the country, Mississippi lawmakers and educators are working together to find ways to target those at risk students and get them back on track to graduation. A task force was created in this year’s state legislature to find some answers. But so far there’s more questions…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 31, 2007

JPD Officer’s Complaint May Cost Him

In a report given to WLBT anonymously, Jackson police officer Mike Braxton details a profanity-laced tirade by Mayor Frank Melton about Braxton. It happened this summer as the mayor rounded up young people to take to his home for swimming and food. Melton denies parts of the report. “I didn’t say anything to him,” Melton…