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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 02:11 pm

Lee County News

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5 hrs ago | The Mississippi Press

Bishop execution set for Wednesday

Death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, who was convicted of participating in the claw hammer murder of a friend, is just days away from the execution he asked for eight years ago.

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Thu Jul 17, 2008

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Former political foes meet again over county road

BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - An effort by Lee County Supervisor Darrell Rankin to abandon a rural road in his district has provoked the ire of the road's original owner - a man who is Rankin's former ...

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

WLBT-TV Jackson

Alcorn County Escapee Back in Custody

A man who failed to return to a north Mississippi jail facility is back in custody.

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Related Topix: Alcorn County, MS

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Djournal.com

Missing inmate sought by MDOC

The Associated Press CORINTH - The Mississippi Department of Corrections is searching for an inmate who failed to return to the Alcorn County Community Work Center after a 72-hour leave.

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Related Topix: Corinth, MS, Alcorn County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Hattiesburg American

1 dead after single-car accident

PLANTERSVILLE - A single car accident has claimed the life of a Nettleton woman.

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Related Topix: Plantersville, MS, Nettleton, MS

Thu Jul 10, 2008

Djournal.com

First Lee County, next the entire state

By Emily Le Coz Daily Journal TUPELO - Two days after winning approval for a civil rights monument here, the Coalition for Change announced Wednesday it will try to place similar monuments in every county in ...

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Bond reduction denied for Pine

BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO - Evidence presented at a Wednesday preliminary hearing revealed Cheryl Pine allegedly tried to have her husband killed.

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Wed Jul 09, 2008

Djournal.com

Park dedication stirs hometown feelings

By MICHAEL TONOS Sunday Journal TUPELO - Dave Williams Sr. hadn't been back to Lee County since moving away at the age of 5. Allen Uzikee Nelson attended high school in Tupelo, but after going off to college in ...

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Lee supervisors approve civil rights monument for courthouse

The Lee County Board of Supervisors, by a 3-2 vote, today approved a civil rights monument for the courthouse lawn.

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Sat Jul 05, 2008

Djournal.com

Plan would expand facilities at Brice's

If agreed to, the project would use funds from Tupelo, Baldwyn, Lee County and the park itself.

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Related Topix: Baldwyn, MS, Tupelo, MS

Thu Jul 03, 2008

The Clarion-Ledger

CHIP provider pleads guilty to fraud

A Tupelo resident has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud against a state-federal program aimed at helping children whose parents lack health-care coverage and can't afford to buy it.

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS, Healthcare Law, Law

Wed Jul 02, 2008

The Clarion-Ledger

Grand jury to hear Tupelo realtor's murder-for-hire case

The case of Cheryl Pine, accused in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, will be heard by the September grand jury.

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Alleged plot shocks friends

Lee County real estate agent Cheryl Pine is accused in a murder conspiracy. BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - Before her arrest Thursday, 57-year-old Cheryl Pine was known as a respected real-estate agent, ...

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

White gets fines in Sanctuary death case

Dr. Paul White, second from left, listens as his attorney, Anthony Farese, talks to the media after White's plea hearing on Monday in Tupelo, Miss.

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Related Topix: Booneville, MS, Tupelo, MS

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Djournal.com

Murder-for-hire plot broken up

Lee County Sheriff's deputies have intercepted a murder-for-hire plot and charged a Tupelo woman in connection with the incident.

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

The Clarion-Ledger

Death penalty: Justice inches closer for Bishop

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has removed the constitutional cloud from the state's method of administering lethal injection in capital cases, Mississippi seems to be getting about the business of expediting ...

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Related Topix: Fulton, MS, Saltillo, MS, US News, US Supreme Court, Death Penalty, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Sat Jun 28, 2008

The Mississippi Press

Tupelo woman accused of planning murder-for-hire

Lee County Sheriff's deputies say a 57-year-old woman paid an undercover officer a substantial amount of money to kill an acquaintance.

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Related Topix: Tupelo, MS

Thu Jun 26, 2008

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Miss. Supreme Court declined to hear Salts' appeal

The Mississippi Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of the embezzlement convictions of the former owners of Salts Funeral Home in Booneville.

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Related Topix: Booneville, MS

Wed Jun 25, 2008

Picayune Item

Miss. doctor pleads guilty to e-mail threats

A Mississippi hospice director said Monday that scotch and sleeping pills made him send threatening e-mails to people he blamed for a criminal investigation of deaths at his facility.

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Related Topix: Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicine, Medication, Drugs

Tue Jun 24, 2008

WDAM-TV Hattiesburg

Bond set for Iuka murder suspect

Bond has been set at $500,000 for a man accused in the shooting death of 91-year-old Hezzie Whitlock.

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Related Topix: Iuka, MS, Violent Crime, Tishomingo County, MS

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