OXFORD, Miss. (AP) – Outside Mississippi’s 3rd Judicial District, Henry Lackey is best known as the judge whose integrity and intrepidness led to the downfall of famed trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs and several colleagues.

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi legislators are considering whether to temporarily cut their own pay and to permanently reduce the size of the House and Senate.

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Bruce native Dr. Ray Brown, a research civil engineer in the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL) of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss., has been named the recipient of the Roll of Honor Award from the Asphalt Institute and has also been named to the Hot Mix Asphalt Hall of Fame by the National Asphalt Pavement Assoc-iation (NAPA). 

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By JOEL McNEECE
L.J. Petty is a simple man. He believes in work, family and church and not necessarily in that order.
Petty, 73, has lived his entire life almost within a rock-throw of where he lives now – west of Pittsboro on CR 200. He actually has a Big Creek address.

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