Emily Wagster Pettus
Journalist at Freelance
Senior editor @mississippitoday. Previously, reporter @ap.
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1 week ago |
mississippitoday.org | Emily Wagster Pettus
One of Mississippi’s longest-serving current state senators, who published a memoir about how education helped him move from picking cotton to teaching science to making laws at the state Capitol, is resigning. Democratic Sen. David Jordan of Greenwood is a retired educator who has served in the state Senate since 1993. His district serves parts of Leflore, Panola and Tallahatchie counties.
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2 weeks ago |
wtva.com | Emily Wagster Pettus
A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a "paperwork miscommunication" during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says. Kasper Juul Eriksen, now 32, left his home in Aalborg, Denmark, as a teenager in 2009 and spent a year in the U.S. as a high school exchange student in Starkville, Mississippi.
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2 weeks ago |
wlox.com | Emily Wagster Pettus
A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says. Kasper Juul Eriksen, now 32, left his home in Aalborg, Denmark, as a teenager in 2009 and spent a year in the U.S. as a high school exchange student in Starkville, Mississippi.
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2 weeks ago |
rawstory.com | Emily Wagster Pettus
A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says. Kasper Eriksen and his wife Savannah Eriksen pose for a photo in Sturgis, Mississippi, in autumn 2024.
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Mar 8, 2025 |
chronicle-tribune.com | Emily Wagster Pettus
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House of Representatives, died Tuesday at age 96, his son said. Rep. Bryant Clark, who succeeded Robert Clark, said his father died of natural causes at home in Holmes County, north of Jackson.
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