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Baton Rouge inmates housed in a north Louisiana parish prison have been cut off from the rest of the jail population as officials combat the smuggling of contraband like marijuana and tobacco, which they believe prisoners are trading with one another at the Baton Rouge district courthouse. East Baton Rouge...
Democrat Scott Colom is overperforming among affidavit ballots in two Mississippi Delta counties in the race for U.S. Senate, continuing a pattern MFP has reported on elsewhere in Mississippi. Hyde-Smith needs significant gains in affidavit ballots to overcome Colom’s more than 2,500-vote lead, but so far, affidavit ballots are only...