Emily Wagster Pettus

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  • The Mississippi State flags flies April 17, 2001 in Pascagoula, MS.
    Mississippi Jun 23, 2020

    Baptists, Walmart Criticize Rebel-Themed Mississippi Flag

    The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag is drawing criticism from two big forces in the culturally conservative state.
    Walmart says it will no longer display the state flag because it includes the Confederate battle emblem.

  • A night view of the Bay Bridge
    Louisiana Apr 3, 2017

    5 Killed as Storms Sweep Through South

    A Mississippi woman who desperately tried to direct rescuers to her sinking vehicle after it skidded into a rain-swollen creek was among five people killed in storms across the South. Jacqueline Williams, 52, was running a newspaper delivery route when her car slid off a road into a creek in her hometown of Florence before dawn Monday, authorities said. She...

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