Dressing your pets for Halloween …

The Daily Journal asked readers if they would dress their pets for Halloween. Here is a photo from one email with these words … This is the sweetest, funniest dog you will ever see in a Halloween costume.
Here is a reader response ….
Dressing our pet for Halloween?
Yes, you bet we are!
We have a [...]

Fed cuts key interest rate for a second time to guard against recession threats

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve, confronted by surging oil prices and a slumping housing market, cut a key interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point Wednesday. But policymakers signaled that may be all the rate relief the economy needs right now.
The central bank lowered the federal funds rate to 4.5 percent, [...]

GOP candidates lead Dems in campaign fundraising

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON - Republicans have raked in more campaign cash in seven of the eight statewide races leading into next week’s general election in Mississippi.
Attorney General Jim Hood is the only Democrat who has raised more than a Republican opponent. Hood is also the only statewide Democratic incumbent on the ballot next [...]

Walls man charged in fatal DeSoto Co. accident

HORN LAKE, Miss. (AP) - A 23 year-old Walls man has been charged with DUI-death involving an Oct. 21 traffic accident in which a Charleston woman was killed.
Feliciano Quezada-Gonzales, 23, was being held in the DeSoto County jail on a $250,000 bond after his arrest last week.
The Highway Patrol said Quezada-Gonzales was driving a sport utility [...]

5th Circuit to hear State Farm appeal of Miss. Katrina case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal appeals court has scheduled arguments Dec. 5 in State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.’s quest to overturn a $2.7 million judgment in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute from the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The arguments will be heard in New Orleans.
In January, U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. ruled State Farm owed [...]

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Links and things …
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Boy With Matches Blamed for One Calif. Fire  

Family frustrated after late reprieve in killer’s execution

By SHELIA BYRD
Associated Press Writer
PARCHMAN - After waiting 20 years for the execution of his wife’s killer, Charles Bounds turned red-faced with frustration after the U.S. Supreme Court granted the killer a late reprieve.
“Who are you to do this?” Charles Bounds said to Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps.
Epps told reporters moments later that the emotional strain [...]

MDOC statement …

PARCHMAN  – The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) has received the official ruling at 5:41 p.m. today of the United States Supreme Court granting death row inmate Earl Wesley Berry a stay of execution.
Now that the United States Supreme Court has deemed the method of execution needs to be reviewed, the state will await the [...]

Statement from Gov. Haley Barbour …

STATEMENT OF GOVERNOR HALEY BARBOUR
ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT’S RULING
IN THE EARL WESLEY BERRY CASE
OCTOBER 30, 2007 
The United States Supreme Court’s ruling is extremely disappointing.  The real inhumanity in this case is that the life of an innocent woman, Mary Bounds of Houston, Mississippi, was taken 20 years ago, and now justice has been [...]

Supreme Court stops execution

WASHINGTON  (AP) -The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi Tuesday, less than an hour before a convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.
The last-minute reprieve for Earl Wesley Berry is the third granted by the justices since they agreed late last month to decide a challenge to Kentucky’s lethal [...]