Allen graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's degree in Radio, Television and Film.

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Hattiesburg, which straddles Forrest and Lamar counties, is home to the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Hattiesburg is home to the University of Southern Mississippi.

CNN: Tornado tears through southern Mississippi

Salter and co-authors Franklin Mixon of Columbus State University and Ernest King of the University of Southern Mississippi asked 402 people to rate agents, both male and female, on a scale of 1 to 10, from very unattractive to very attractive, based on online head shots.

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Thomas Pittman, a retired professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and an expert in toxicology, said ricin has a number of qualities that make it desirable to someone bent on doing harm: The ingredients are relatively easy to obtain, it's not that hard to make a crude form of it, it's deadly and it's hard to detect in a victim's body.

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