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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

The Miami Herald

Inmate who escaped from Miss. captured in Florida

Florida Highway Patrol officials say they have arrested an inmate who escaped from a Mississippi state work camp.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Mississippi Government

Sun May 19, 2013

Sunherald.com

Miss. crop planting lags behind schedule

Ernie Flint, an agronomist at the Mississippi State University Extension Service, says many of the state's farmers are running about month behind but still have time to catch up before it's too late to plant crops.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Mississippi Government, Weather, Mississippi State University, US News, United States Department of Agriculture

WMC-TV Memphis

2 boys missing after ATV overturns in Miss. creek

Authorities have resumed the search for two young brothers who were passengers in an all-terrain vehicle that overturned in a Mississippi creek.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government

Sat May 18, 2013

WBNS

State Drug Court conference to be held in Tunica

Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. will speak Wednesday at the opening of a three-day conference in of the Mississippi Association of Drug Court Professionals.

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law

WMC-TV Memphis

Miss. mayoral candidate: Radical or mainstream?

A lawyer who was active in a black nationalist group decades ago is running for mayor of Mississippi's capital city.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government

Post and Courier

Union study says Nissan subsidies for Mississippi plant top $1.3 billion

Nissan Motor Co.'s Mississippi plant is on track to receive more state aid and tax breaks than what state and company officials have previously revealed, according to a study paid for by the United Auto Workers, which is questioning whether the state is getting enough for its money.

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Sunherald.com

Student who drowned in Spring Creek recovered

Simeon Gray was pulled from Spring Creek in the area that search and rescue K-9s teams indicated they had a hit.

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Deltafarmpress

Constant quest for improvement has rewards for Keith Morton

Mississippi farmer Keith Morton continues to study, seek advice, and adopt practices that will enable him to increase yields and revenues while improving the land he farms.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Entomology

WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Overwhelming support for family who lost everything in a fire

People from as far as Mississippi are coming together to help the St. Amant family that lost their home to fire Thursday morning.

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Related Topix: Fire

Fri May 17, 2013

WTOK-TV Meridian

Slots Seized from Several Businesses

Multiple officers could be seen outside of Nick's Bar on 23rd Avenue around noon.

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Mississippi Business Journal

Municipalities are beachheads of opportunity

In a recent Tuesday the streets of many of our municipalities were lined with fellow citizens and supporters of mayoral, aldermanic and council candidates waving signs and banners in behalf of their favorites.

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Related Topix: New Albany, MS, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, West Point, MS, Columbus, MS

The Mississippi Press

Gautier PD honored for work in solving 2012 murder case

Gautier Police Chief Dante Elbin accepts the first "Golden Cat Award" from Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann Wednesday in the Gautier Municipal Court.

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Related Topix: Gautier, MS, Biloxi, MS

The Mississippi Press

UAW study shows Mississippi Nissan subsidies top $1.3 billion

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, left, and Bill Krueger, vice chairman of Nissan Americas, talk before Kruegar spoke about models to be produced at Nissan's Canton, Mississippi, plant, Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Canton.

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Related Topix: Canton, MS, Jackson, MS, Madison County, MS

Sunherald.com

Mississippi's seniors get another shot to pass grad tests

Seniors statewide are streaming to Mississippi State University to get over the hurdle and receive diplomas with classmates.

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Related Topix: Mississippi State University, Education Etc.

WMC-TV Memphis

Brown nominated for US district judgeship in Miss.

President Barack Obama has nominated Jackson attorney Debra M. Brown to be a U.S. District judge for northern Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government

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