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...Almost 400,000 people live in the 50-mile stretch of coastal Mississippi sandwiched between Louisiana and Alabama. The area has grown as a tourist destination since 1992, when gambling was legalized. An aggressive proponent of economic development, Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove has conducted a stealth campaign in recent months to convince Benson to move the Saints to his state. Sources said Mugrove and others - including former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, who is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast - have huddled with Benson to hammer out plans...
...March, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue advised the Saints to consider turning the club into a regional team, a concept that several NFL teams have used successfully. A move to Mississippi could expand the team's marketing efforts to southern Alabama and Georgia and northwestern Florida in addition to Louisiana and Mississippi, where most of the Saints fans are now located...
...March means heavy travel time for the team, and the Crimson crossed the country taking on some of the top teams in the country with mixed results. Harvard went down to Alabama for the Blue-Grey Classic and left with a win over the higher-ranked Tulsa, but not much else...
...Intelligence GOP chair: Richard Shelby, Alabama Democratic chair: Bob Graham, Florida Effect of change: Committee takes lower profile...
That same week, prosecutors in Alabama finally convicted the Klansman who bombed the black church in Birmingham back in 1963, killing four little girls. We could have done this years ago, they said, if the FBI had just handed over their secret tapes that proved his guilt. That conviction came after months of criticism that the FBI had dismissed warnings of a mole in its ranks right up until they tripped over Russian spy Robert Hanssen, an agent for 25 years. Last month the bureau announced a mediation agreement with African-American agents in a long-running class action charging...