Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil War siege
Source: Denver Post
Vicksburg :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 10:01:47 -0700 | travel-news
Miss.Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburgso much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4. Union forces waged...
Miss. twice nabs N.M. couple's tax refund
Source: USA Today
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 09:43:57 -0700 | political-news
EDT May 23, 2013 Pair never lived in state, but officials say husband owes back child support. Miss. -- Dionne and Calvin McDonald Jr. of Albuquerque, N.M., have never lived in Mississippi...Department of Treasury stating a hold had been put...
JFK commemorations dot 2013 calendar
Source: USA Today
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 09:37:10 -0700 | political-news
The calendar is dotted with 50th anniversary commemorations of events from JFK's crowded last year of life, ending with the saddest of anniversaries in November. In speeches, books, magazines, conferences, symposiums, news stories and television specials, admirers will pay tribute...
Lab owner convicted of faking wastewater tests
Source: SF Gate
Water Valley :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 09:13:57 -0700 | sports-news
Miss. (AP) The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been convicted on federal charges of falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test. Tennie White was the sole operator of Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories...
Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages
Source: Mother Jones
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 03:58:10 -0700 | political-news
The state's manslaughter laws weren't supposed to apply to women who lose pregnancies...AM PDT On March 14, 2009, 31 weeks into her pregnancy, Nina Buckhalter gave birth to a stillborn baby girl...Two months later, a grand jury in Lamar County,...
Steamboat Springs residents reflect on life of Lesley Chambers
Source: The Steamboat Pilot
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 22:03:25 -0700 | allnews
Courtesy photo Lesley Chambers was diagnosed with leukemia Sept. 28 and died April 18. She would have been 32 years old Monday, when her friends held a memorial with sparklers, flowers and bourbon slushies...Randles would crash the fancy-free setup of...
Steamboat Springs residents reflect on life of Lesley Chambers
Source: The Steamboat Pilot
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 22:03:25 -0700 | allnews
Courtesy photo Lesley Chambers was diagnosed with leukemia Sept. 28 and died April 18. She would have been 32 years old Monday, when her friends held a memorial with sparklers, flowers and bourbon slushies...Randles would crash the fancy-free setup of...
A Postal Service event in Gettysburg features a descendant of rebels in a famous stamp photo
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Vicksburg :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 21:31:12 -0700 | travel-news
Mr. Dolinger spoke to a reporter while making a six-hour drive from his home in Pembroke, Va., to Gettysburg, Pa., where today he will speak at a news conference held by the U.S. Postal Service as it unveils a new...
Dipsea notebook: A two-time winner before her 11th birthday, McGowan fell off the map until now
Source: Marin Indepedent Journal
West Point :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 15:48:53 -0700 | sports-news
There were no missing person posters, no photos on milk cartons, no computer-generated aging images in tax booklets. Nonetheless, the running community searching for Megan for the 100th anniversary of the Dipsea in 2005, the 100th running of the race...
ArtsBeat: ‘Little Miss Sunshine' Musical Heading to Second Stage Theater
Source: International Herald Tribune
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 14:15:13 -0700 | entertainment-news
Mr. Waber's most enduring creation was Lyle, a clever crocodile who lived on the Upper East Side. Bill Cheng's first novel, Southern Cross the Dog, is set in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era. Under a new deal, the network...
Legal aide lawyer fired amid turmoil at agency
Source: Herald Tribune
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 11:03:09 -0700 | allnews
Mullin took over the nonprofit Gulfcoast Legal Services in December. Before moving to Florida, she appeared as a legal consultant on television programs including The O'Reilly Factor, Nancy Grace, Doctor Phil and other programs on CNN, FOX News and Court...
Legal aide lawyer fired amid turmoil at agency
Source: Herald Tribune
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 11:03:09 -0700 | allnews
Mullin took over the nonprofit Gulfcoast Legal Services in December. Before moving to Florida, she appeared as a legal consultant on television programs including The O'Reilly Factor, Nancy Grace, Doctor Phil and other programs on CNN, FOX News and Court...
All 50 states embrace the home brew boom
Source: Sacramento Bee
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 09:06:52 -0700 | political-news
Even so, a recent explosion of interest in the hobby has created tricky questions for state alcohol regulators...But many states still prohibit home brewers from transporting their beer to club meetings or competitions. Some states also limit the amount a...
As I Lay Dying: James Franco Does William Faulkner
Source: Time-Arts Looking Around
Vardaman :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 01:53:17 -0700 | entertainment-news
Franco sometimes wanders from his naturalistic style into a mixture of dream and nightmare, as when Dewey Dell takes a kitchen knife used to cut fish, walks over to Darl and guts him. (Timothy O'Keefe's music, which takes some of its...
Dems pick Lumumba in Jackson mayor runoff
Source: SF Gate
Jackson :: MS :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 21:49:04 -0700 | political-news
Jonathan Lee in the Democratic primary runoff for Jackson mayor. The Clarion-Ledger reports that unofficial results show the 65-year-old Lumumba winning 55 percent of the vote Tuesday...No Republican is running, though independent candidates Francis Smith, Jr., Richard Williams, Jr., and...
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