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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Use of police force by a Senatobia police officer toward a vehicle suspected of involvement in a crime on June 14, leading to the death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, has been justified by the attorney general's office in Mississippi.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two financial officers from across the U.S. wrote to the nation’s top rating agencies – Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P – asking them to explain the influence ESG policies have had on states’ credit ratings, with the officers detailing what they consider the harm using such “political assumptions” causes to states and taxpayers alike.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Two people were killed and another injured as Hurricane Isaias brought damaging winds, falling trees and widespread power outages across the Southeast, with emergency crews beginning recovery efforts Saturday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Hurricane Isaias threatened Florida, Alabama and Mississippi with damaging winds, heavy rain and storm surge Friday as officials urged residents to finish preparations before an expected overnight landfall.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Mandatory evacuations were listed in four Florida counties Friday as Hurricane Isaias threatened the northern Gulf Coast, while Mississippi officials opened shelters and closed two county health departments.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Hurricane Isaias strengthened into a Category 3 storm Friday morning and Alabama officials warned of destructive winds extending inland and coastal storm surge reaching 9 feet.
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Flowers sat on death row for 22 years and was given the death penalty for the 1996 killings of four people at his former job, despite there never being any DNA evidence linking him to the crime and the murder weapon was never found.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Hurricane Isaias continued strengthening Thursday as Louisiana officials announced a coastal wildlife refuge closure ahead of the storm’s expected arrival along the northern Gulf Coast on Friday night.
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(The Center Square) – Hurricane warnings are in effect for Mobile and Baldwin counties as Hurricane Isaias approaches the northern Gulf Coast, threatening Alabama with damaging winds, flooding and tornadoes.
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(The Center Square) - Tropical Storm Isaias is likely to become a significant hurricane before making landfall on the north-central Gulf Coast late Friday or this weekend between the Florida Panhandle and southeast Louisiana, according to the latest forecast by the National Hurricane Center.
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