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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,01/17/22-3:48PM, 214 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,01/17/22-9:48AM, 211 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,01/13/22-1:42PM, 250 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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- Laurel resident Marlan Baucum, easily pushes over one of the many dying trees on his property. Baucum believes a disposal well not far from his home has contaminated the water table in the area, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
‘Quit is not in my vocabulary’: After his wife got cancer, this Mississippi man took oil companies to court
By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,01/13/22-10:30AM, 155 Reads 2,107 Statewide
This Jones County couple believes that a government agency tasked with protecting Mississippians has failed to do so.

Driving down his curving, wooded street on the edges of Laurel, Marlan Baucum points to each house where a neighbor had cancer.
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