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Gina Diamond

Passion for Flowers: Great grandmother’s love of flowers leads Diamond from marketing degree to business
By OLIVIA MARS
Tue,01/18/22-3:30PM, 308 Reads
Gina Diamond has always had a passion for flowers. Her great grandmother was from Italy and spoke little English but they spent countless hours together working in the yard and planting flowers, while growing her love of them at the same time.
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Clay County Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens inspects the .22-caliber weapon that killed Danelle Young in 2009 while Special Assistant Attorney General Jackie Bost II and Sandra Levick, legal director for the Mississippi Innocence Project, watch. Blair Ballou/MCIR

MCIR: Tameshia Shelton is serving life for murder. But was the death involved really a suicide?
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,01/17/22-3:43PM, 157 Reads 1,133 Statewide
A hearing continues Tuesday to determine if a Clay County woman, serving a life sentence for the death of her sister’s boyfriend, will get a new trial.
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Mississippi Stories: Dr. Jeannine Herron
By MARSHALL RAMSEY - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/17/22-9:39AM, 124 Reads 1,542 Statewide
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Duane Lake spent six years in the Coahoma County Jail in a triple homicide he didn’t commit before being acquitted and gaining his release in 2021. He lost his marriage, his livelihood and time with his children. Now he’s trying to put his life back together. Rory Doyle/MCIR

‘Dead zone’ leads innocent man to spend six years behind bars
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Thu,01/13/22-1:32PM, 244 Reads 3,899 Statewide
Duane Lake spent six years locked up in a jail cell in Clarksdale for a triple murder he didn’t commit.
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