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1 hr ago | New Vision

AIDS scientists optimistic of AIDS cure, for some

Top AIDS scientists were optimistic Wednesday of finding a cure for the disease that has claimed 30 million lives -- but said it might not work for all people.

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5 hrs ago | WLOX-TV Biloxi

Special ceremony to honor soldier killed in Iraq

Camp Shelby's annual Laying of the Wreaths Ceremony scheduled Thursday will include a special ceremony for the family of Sgt.

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Related Topix: US National Guard, US Military

9 hrs ago | The Mississippi Press

U.S. sees drop in teen birth rates, but Mississippi and Arkansas still lead country

The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report .

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Wed May 22, 2013

The Mississippi Press

UAW and friends offer crocodile tears for Nissan job incentives

As the United Auto Workers continue to try to win a union organization vote at Canton's Nissan plant, they and their friends have begun public outpourings of crocodile tears over Mississippi's economic development incentives utilized to bring the global automaker to the state.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Opinion

WTOK-TV Meridian

Meridian City Council Gives 10k to Boys and Girls Club of East Mississippi

Meridian City Council members Mary Perry and Jesse Palmer were attending Tuesday night's council meeting as the last votes were being cast in the run-off elections.

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Examiner.com

Tornadoes threaten northern Mississippi through Tuesday evening

The Storm Prediction Center issued a tornado watch from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. CDT Tuesday covering 34 counties including Attala, Holmes, Humphreys, Washington, Choctaw, Webster, Montgomery, Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Monroe, Chickasaw, Calhoun, Yalobusha, Tallahatchie, Sunflower, Bolivar, Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Union, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Sunflower, MS, Coahoma, MS, Prentiss, MS, Weather

Examiner.com

Severe thunderstorm watch issued for much of central Mississippi

An approaching line of intense thunderstorms with a history of producing widespread wind damage has prompted the Storm Prediction Center to issue a severe thunderstorm watch for much of central Mississippi .

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Sunflower, MS, Vicksburg, MS, Yazoo City, MS, Starkville, MS

Examiner.com

Thousands lose power in overnight storms in Mississippi

A line of damaging wind storms raced across portions of northern and central Mississippi Tuesday night, leaving thousands without power.

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Related Topix: Warren County, MS, Vicksburg, MS, Grenada County, MS, Weather, Sunflower, MS

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Runoff election decides several races across South Mississippi

Kenny Glavan is the new councilman for Biloxi Ward 6. He beat incumbent Ed Gemmill by a large majority.

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Related Topix: Biloxi, MS, Ocean Springs, MS, Pascagoula, MS, Picayune, MS

Institute for Southern Studies

In Mississippi, Nissan's ironic disconnect on civil rights and unions

My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.

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Related Topix: Martin Luther King, Jr., Canton, MS, Jackson, MS, Tougaloo College

Clinton News

Corn planting in Mississippi running a little behind

Young corn had emerged in late April at Mississippi State University's Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Mississippi State University, Humphreys County, MS, Weather

Sunherald.com

Hurley's East Central High says goodbye to 165 grads

East Central High School, whose class motto is "It's not how you start, it's how you finish," graduated 165 seniors Tuesday at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum.

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Related Topix: Mississippi College

American Thinker

The IRS: Destroying Liberty Since before You Were Born

In the fallout from the recent revelations about the Internal Revenue Service systematically persecuting conservative political groups and other enemies of President Obama, the establishment is putting on a good show of being shocked by the behavior.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue May 21, 2013

Politico

McCaul: Benghazi will haunt Clinton

Rep. Michael McCaul , the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, predicted Monday night that the fallout from Benghazi will haunt Hillary Clinton if she runs for president.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Michael McCaul, Republican, US House of Representatives, Hillary Clinton, US Senate, Democrat, Haley Barbour, US Governors, Mississippi Government

Sunherald.com

267 graduate from St. Martin High

St. Martin High School graduates were told by class historian Bryson Krause, "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it's not." Two hundred and sixty-seven students at St.

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Sunherald.com

Todd, Chenoweth and Westfall named Jackson County representatives to coast-wide tourism board

The Jackson County Board of Supervisors named three nominees to the Tri-County Tourism Board of Supervisors for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau at its meeting Monday.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Mississippi Business Journal

MDA: Energy legislation press conference canceled

The Mississippi Development Authority says Tuesday's scheduled press briefing regarding recently-enacted energy legislation has been postponed until next month.

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Insurance Journal West

Court Nixes Mississippi Property Owners' Greenhouse Gases Damages Suit

A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, in turn, damaged their property.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Mississippi Government, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

KHOU-TV Houston

Court won't get involved in Miss. redistricting

The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, African-American

WMC-TV Memphis

MSU to welcome Boys State participants May 26

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker lead a list of speakers for the American Legion's Boys State on the campus of Mississippi State University this month.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Gregg Harper, Senator Roger Wicker, Roger Wicker, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Alan Nunnelee, Mississippi State University

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