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Cost of the settlement in a racial-harassment lawsuit against a Mississippi oil-rig company. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says nooses were displayed on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico...
Tuesday evening, Earl W. Berry, a Mississippi prisoner condemned to lethal injection, was just moments away from facing his fate when the Supreme Court wisely granted a stay of execution. Legal experts say that this decision signals to lower courts that a de facto moratorium on lethal injection is in place, at least until the Supreme Court hears a case on whether injection is cruel and unusual later this term. Although this is a step in the right direction, it is a distraction to the real issue at hand: the ultimate end of capital punishment. It seems likely that...
...often breaking up fights over who got to pass out snacks that day. I thought my experience in the impoverished areas of Boston had prepared me well for my new teaching post at Central High School. My students in Teach for America’s “Mississippi Delta” placement region are, in fact, similar to those in Dorchester in many ways. They, too, need a lot of help on homework, and they also fight, even though they’ve graduated from brownie squares to love triangles...
Last summer, at the heart of the Atlantic hurricane season, the State Farm Insurance Company declared that it would stop selling insurance policies to the owners of homes and small businesses in Mississippi...
...company realized that with all the costs and complications associated with doing business in hurricane-prone Mississippi, especially the fact that global warming is predicted to make hurricanes increasingly frequent and intense, it could not continue operating in the state at its desired profit margin unless it raised its rates. And because insurance rates are often capped by states, State Farm felt it had no option other than to get out of Mississippi...