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May 23, 2007

2 lawmakers ask Barbour for special session to cancel tuition increases

The Clarion-Ledger, 5/22/7 Gov. Haley Barbour should call a special session to utilize $25 million in the state?s rainy day fund in order to cancel tuition increases at Mississippi universities, two lawmakers said today. The tuition hikes averaging 6 percent for 2007-2008 range from $165 at Alcorn State University to $328 at the University of…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 23, 2007

Agent’s tearful wife testifies in Melton trial

The Clarion-Ledger, 5/22/7 The wife of one of the men suing Mayor Frank Melton for libel damages offered tearful testimony Monday of how a leaked memo drove her marriage to the brink of divorce. “I didn’t think I loved him anymore,” Melissa Saxton said of her husband, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agent Jimmy Saxton.