Senate kills Mississippi ballot initiative without a vote
For the second straight year, deep disagreement between House and Senate leaders killed an effort to reinstate a ballot initiative process.
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On this day in 1964, Johnnie Mae Chappell was killed in Jacksonville, Florida, after buying ice cream for her children.
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