A belligerent letter-write takes The Mississippi Press to task for “victimizing” the victim of alleged child abuse in a recent edition when the paper identified the mother and grandmother of the child.
A 71-year-old Franklin County man, charged in the 1964 abduction and slayings of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, has pleaded not guilty to their deaths and now a public defender in his case has filed for dismissal because of charges in the federal kidnapping statute made nearly 40 years ago.
Meanwhile, according to The Natchez Democrat, Franklin County Sheriff James Newman has said suspect James Ford Seale, a former crop duster, was never a commissioned deputy in that county.
The Hattiesburg American opines: The tentacles of justice have snared another of those individuals allegedly involved in the civil rights era-slayings in Mississippi and six other states with the arrest of reputed Klansman James Seale. His arrest is the 28th in a civil rights-era slaying since 1989, when Mississippi reopened its investigation into the 1963 assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, which later became the subject of the movie “Ghosts of Mississippi.”
Research by the Charlotte Observer and reported Sunday in sister McClatchy newspaper The Sun Herald indicates most resident movement in and out of South Mississippi counties “was to, well, other South Mississippi counties.”
From 2000 to 2005, people in Harrison County moved to Jackson and Hancock counties and vice versa. A few even ventured further north to Pearl River, Stone and George counties. The Observer determined the population shift patterns by examining IRS reports.
The Commercial Appeal on Sunday announced a realignment of its newsroom management structure. The changes are made in part, according to editor Chris Peck, to devote more resources to its five zoned editions, including The DeSoto Appeal, serving Southaven, Hernando and other communities in north Mississippi. Scott Sines, who joined the paper in 2003 from the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review as deputy editor, becomes managing editor. Several newsroom veterans have also taken on new or expanded roles at the Memphis metro.
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