Mississippi
TUPELO, Miss. - When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath.
BRUCE, Miss. - A beauty salon owner in in north Mississippi blamed an unexpected power cutoff for a customer's partial baldness.
JACKSON, Miss. - Investigators in Mississippi say two men wrapped blocks of wood in duct tape and bubble wrap, attached Toshiba labels and tried to pass them off as laptops.
GREENWOOD, Miss. - It was a slam-dunk of a good deed.
McCOMB, Miss. - A woman who reached for her telephone after dropping it on the floor in her apartment said she saw a snake staring up at her.
