Ex-welfare director in Mississippi guilty

A former director of Mississippi's welfare agency pleaded guilty Thursday to federal and state charges in a conspiracy to misspend tens of millions of dollars that were intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the U.S. -- part of the largest public corruption case in the state's history.

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