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GARY ANDREWS: Remembering a Favorite Old Hymn
By GARY ANDREWS
Sun,01/16/22-3:00AM, 442 Reads
Many years ago when my wife and I first married I can remember her mother singing or humming the tune of “I come to the garden alone”. This was her favorite song and it always put joy in her heart when she sang it. She was a very pleasant person and I never heard her say an unkind word about anyone.
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Clay County Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens inspects the .22-caliber weapon that killed Danelle Young in 2009 while Special Assistant Attorney General Jackie Bost II and Sandra Levick, legal director for the Mississippi Innocence Project, watch. Blair Ballou/MCIR

MCIR: Tameshia Shelton is serving life for murder. But was the death involved really a suicide?
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,01/17/22-4:12PM, 171 Reads 2,606 Statewide
A hearing continues Tuesday to determine if a Clay County woman, serving a life sentence for the death of her sister’s boyfriend, will get a new trial.
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Mississippi Stories: Dr. Jeannine Herron
By MARSHALL RAMSEY - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/17/22-10:06AM, 161 Reads 2,538 Statewide
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Duane Lake spent six years in the Coahoma County Jail in a triple homicide he didn’t commit before being acquitted and gaining his release in 2021. He lost his marriage, his livelihood and time with his children. Now he’s trying to put his life back together. Rory Doyle/MCIR

‘Dead zone’ leads innocent man to spend six years behind bars
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Thu,01/13/22-2:48PM, 234 Reads 4,389 Statewide
Duane Lake spent six years locked up in a jail cell in Clarksdale for a triple murder he didn’t commit.
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