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BancorpSouth profit surges as mortgage fees boom

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - BancorpSouth says profit in 2012's third quarter doubled from the same three months of 2011, as mortgage fees rose and the bank set aside less money for future loan losses.

The bank said Thursday it posted a quarterly profit of $23.8 million, or 25 cents per share, up from $11.9 million or 14 cents per share in 2011's third

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Voter ID law impacts Memphians at polls

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

For decades, proponents of instituting a Tennessee photo voter ID law insisted graveyards provided unscrupulous politicians with the opportunity to commit voter fraud via the unwitting cooperation of the "living dead."

The problem was deemed so "deadly" serious, a determined Shelby County Election Commission purged

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Ark. inmate walks away from community service

ASH FLAT, Ark. (AP) - Authorities in north Arkansas say a 34-year-old inmate walked away from community service at the Sharp County courthouse.

The Sharp County Sheriff's office said in a news release that Christy Lee Vissering walked away from the courthouse on Thursday.

The sheriff's office says Vissering had been in jail since Aug. 31 on charges

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Oxford looking for new police chief

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -

Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin is stepping down after nearly six years of running the police department.

Martin says his last day will be Jan. 31, 2013.

Mayor Pat Patterson has formed a citizens' committee, including three aldermen, to help find a new police chief.

Patterson says the city will begin advertising for

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Memphis officer losing all because of injury

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Boxes are stacked up all over Memphis police Officer Daniel Brown's home. His family will be kicked out of the house when the foreclosure is final in November.

Brown, a husband and father of two, is losing everything because he's been off the job without pay for months because of an injury.

"We do expect our employer

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