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Some families boast generations of teachers, doctors or police officers. But, for the Freeman family, it's members of the Armed Services.

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Julius Steel cleans up raw oyster shells from the oyster bar at Pascal's Manale restaurant in New Orleans on October 23, 2009.

I received a Google alert that my former NR colleague - I'm accumulating tidbits for the eventual shocking tell-all - has a new WSJ column coming out tomorrow, which, by the miracle of modern technology, is available tonight.

Fleet Forces Command is looking to relocate the Navy's riverine group and its three squadrons to one of seven locations around the country - or leave them where they are in Hampton Roads, Va.

The Alabama and Mississippi congressional delegations presented an almost united front against the Democratic health care bill approved late Saturday night as only one member, Rep.

Despite efforts by House Democratic leaders to corral members of their caucus, Rep.

Brenda Turner, left, and Richard Conrad were some of the members of We Surround Them Jones County to participate in ThursdayA's health care vote protest.

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., talks to journalists before the weekly caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington Nov.

With time hopefully comes perspective, so we will again revisit what nationally some political analysts are deciphering from Tuesday's elections across the nation.

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST a ' The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and the Mississippi State Department of Health are expressing serious concerns over the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationa TMs policy change pertaining to oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico during the months of April through October.

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, has deeply held beliefs against abortion.

Already-skittish moderate Democrats in Congress got fresh reasons Wednesday to worry about their votes on economic and health care legislation from the election results in Virginia and New Jersey.

The National Flood Insurance Program will remain operating until December 18 after President Obama signed a temporary extension of the program.

IF THE late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead were alive today to witness the nation's health care reform debate, he'd probably say something like this: 'What a long, strange trip it's been, man.' Wild-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth citizens shouting down trembling congressmen at town hall meetings, erstwhile vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ...

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor has written a letter to the Food and Drug Administration to oppose their plans to require raw oysters to undergo a post-catch process to rid them of a very rare, but potentially deadly bacteria.

Democratic leaders Thursday invoked the spirit of generations of party heroes to rally their members of the House of Representatives behind a new health care plan - but it's clear that winning a majority will be a tough fight.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., unveiled a 1,990-page bill at an elaborate ceremony on the west front of the Capitol, ...

Mayor A.J. Holloway went to Washington, D.C., last week and returned to Biloxi hopeful the city will be awarded $75 million for a new Popp's Ferry Bridge.

Saying that incumbent Congressman Gene Taylor is a "closet liberal" and voted twice for Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi, 4th Congressional Republican candidate for Congress Joe Tegerdine kicked off his campaign this week on 15 whistle stops around the district, one of them in Picayune on Monday afternoon.

National Guard equipment will be returned from Iraq to the United States and Guard units can fill shortages with equipment currently in use in Iraq, Defense officials told Congress members Oct.