Mississippi Business Journal » fall http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Fall at Capitol may have saved lawmaker’s life http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/26/fall-at-capitol-may-have-saved-lawmakers-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fall-at-capitol-may-have-saved-lawmakers-life http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/26/fall-at-capitol-may-have-saved-lawmakers-life/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:09:59 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=72077 CARTHAGE — Mississippi Rep. Bennett Malone was in surgery yesterday for a pelvic aneurysm. Malone, a 69-year-old Democrat from Carthage, was hospitalized last week after he fell down stairs at the state Capitol. His wife, Theresa Malone, says the fall inadvertently may have saved his life, because a cautionary MRI revealed the large aneurysm. She [...]

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