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Hood: Gov can't run Medicaid by executive order

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:00:26 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - Mississippi's governor does not have the legal authority to operate the Division of Medicaid by executive order, Attorney General Jim Hood said in a nonbinding legal opinion issued Wednesday.

Miss. AG Hood say he'll subpoena Google on drugs

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:23 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - Mississippi's attorney general says he still thinks Google has given inadequate responses to allegations that it's not doing enough to prevent illegal online sales of drugs without prescriptions, and says he's sending out subpoenas for company documents to further his investigation.

George Wallace's daughter lives in shadow of past

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:42:05 -0400

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - For 50 years Peggy Wallace Kennedy has lived in the shadow cast by her father, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, when he stood in a doorway and tried to stop two black students from integrating the University of Alabama.

UA to mark 50th anniversary of Wallace 'stand'

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:34:33 -0400

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - The University of Alabama this month is marking the 50th anniversary of then-Gov. George Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" against racial integration.