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Kristin Paige Baber of Pascagoula and Parker Nelson Pugh of Brooksville were married April 19, 2008, at First United Methodist Church in Pascagoula.

“Belly fat linked to an increased risk of dementia.”

"You're too short for your weight," said my doctor. "Pardon me," I said. "I'm looking at this chart, and it says right here that you're way too short for your weight. via Meridian Star

“Without the positive identification of the victim's sister, the state would be unable to sustain its burden of proof”

District Attorney Forrest Allgood is asking a judge to dismiss the capital murder indictment against Levon Brooks, who spent 18 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. via The Clarion-Ledger

Americans are still paying dearly to drive. A new Lundberg Survey says average gasoline prices are up 64 cents over where they were a year ago. via WTOK-TV Meridian

“We're not asking for details on victims”

The Innocence Project filed public records requests in Mississippi on Wednesday, seeking information about autopsies performed by state pathologist Dr. via The Mississippi Press

“His bond hasn't been set for the other two counts of aggravated assault yet, so the judge will probably set his bond higher once that happens”

Bond has been set at more than $1 million for a 70-year-old Brooksville man charged with wounding a police officer and two others in a Columbus shopping center parking lot. via The South Mississippi Sun Herald

“Taylor was across the street in the Old Navy parking lot”

The suspect in an attack outside a Columbus shopping center on Friday has been released from the hospital and is in jail. via The Clarion-Ledger

“This further review is even more important in Tina's case because of the strange manner in which Dr. Hayne reached his conclusion”

An attorney for a New York woman charged with manslaughter in the 2003 death of her 3-year-old daughter in Jackson wants the state to review the autopsy findings. via The Clarion-Ledger

“No one wants an innocent person in prison for a crime if he didn't commit it.”

Arthur Johnson, who has spent 15 years behind bars, could be the next Mississippi inmate freed from prison because of DNA evidence. via The Clarion-Ledger

The engagement of Kristin Paige Baber of Pascagoula and Parker Nelson Pugh of Brooksville has been announced. via The Mississippi Press

“These two guys were both convicted of capital murder ... and both of them are completely innocent”

As reported in The Clarion-Ledger on Sunday, two cases only a few miles apart but both involving expert forensic testimony and DNA evidence have created a furor. via The Clarion-Ledger

“These two guys were both convicted of capital murder because of the testimony of Dr. West, and both of them are completely innocent”

More than 20 Mississippians have gone to prison, at least in part, because of the testimony of controversial bite-mark expert Dr. via The Clarion-Ledger

“Escapes happen but if you escape from The Kemper County Jail we are going remain vigilant. We are going to work hard and ensure that you don't sleep sound because when you do we are going to tap you on the shoulder”

Kemper County authorities have recovered the second and final inmate that escaped from the Kemper-Neshoba Regional Jail late last month. via WTOK-TV Meridian

“Nothing I can say can give him back the time taken from him or the loss.”

JUSTICE - LONG DELAYED - was served Friday when Kennedy Brewer was exonerated in the kidnapping and murder of a 3-year-old Mississippi girl. via Hattiesburg American

“Fifteen years of nightmare and the nightmare is finally over.”

Until Friday morning, 18-year-old Shonterica Pippin had never seen her father outside of prison. via Commercial Dispatch

“If the man is innocent, I want him out”

The three men all lived in the same small town where two little girls were brutally killed in the early 1990s. Two of the men were convicted and went to prison. Now, the third man has allegedly confessed he alone committed both crimes.

Kennedy Brewer could be exonerated this week of the 1992 rape and murder of 3-year-old Christine Jackson. Last week, authorities charged Justin Albert Johnson, 51, in the child's death.

A hearing has been scheduled for Friday in Noxubee County Circuit Court to hear a prosecutor's motion to dismiss the charge that once put Brewer on death row. Read more

“In two decades of working on these cases, we have never seen a more stark and troubling example of a rush to judgment at the hands of notorious forensic analysts who conspired to commit fraud”

Two men claiming they were wrongfully convicted in Noxubee County of raping and killing 3-year-old girls in the 1990s could be cleared in court this week, according to The Innocence Project, a group of lawyers ... via Commercial Dispatch

“We as prosecutors have a duty to protect the innocent as well as prosecute the guilty.”

Attorney General Jim Hood's office issued a news release, confirming an arrest in the 16-year-old murder of a three-year old girl in Noxubee County. via WTOK-TV Meridian

“All I did was present the facts that I saw”

Two 3-year-old girls disappeared from their homes in the early 1990s and were later found sexually assaulted and murdered. via The Mississippi Press