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3 hrs ago | WMC-TV Memphis

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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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, 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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Sat May 18, 2013

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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Fri May 17, 2013

Mississippi Business Journal

CRAWFORD: Taint of tyranny infecting our Medicaid standoff?

Founder Thomas Jefferson warned, "Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Medicaid must be reauthorized this year.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Mississippi

WMC-TV Memphis

Miss. high court dismisses hospital sale dispute

The Mississippi Supreme Court has granted a motion from St. Dominic Health Systems to dismiss its appeal of a judge's order that it did not have a binding contract to buy an outpatient surgery clinic in Canton.

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Thu May 16, 2013

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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Economic Policy Institute

Ongoing Joblessness in Mississippi: Unemployment rate for African...

In Mississippi, where the overall unemployment rate was 8.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 , African American families continue to bear the brunt of that economic pain.

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Mississippi Business Journal

Check-cashing firm buys 10 more stores across Miss.

MADISON - All American Check Cashing announced today the completion of the acquisition of 10 payday loan retail stores today throughout Mississippi.

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The Miami Herald

NAACP board honors Evers' memory in Miss. capital

The national board of the NAACP is meeting in Mississippi's capital city for the first time in 30 years.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Mississippi Business Journal

CRAWFORD: Is a taint of tyranny infecting our Medicaid standoff?

Founder Thomas Jefferson warned "Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Medicaid must be reauthorized this year.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Mississippi

The Las Vegas Sun

Only abortion clinic in Miss. fights to stay open

Mississippi's only abortion clinic can't meet the mandates of a 2012 state law, and the governor wants to shut it down.

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Related Topix: Mississippi, Women's Health, Health

Tue May 14, 2013

National Review Online

May 14, 2013

On Fox Business Network last night, former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour joked about the now-popular comparison between the use of the Internal Revenue Service under the Nixon and Obama administrations: "At least in the Nixon administration, using the word 'patrioitic' did not put you on the enemies list." Over the last week, the IRS has ... (more)

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Related Topix: Mississippi, US Governors, Haley Barbour, Tax

Chattanoogan.com

Tennessee's Indians in the Historical Era, Part 1

The land now known as the State of Tennessee has been home to numerous American Indian peoples the past several thousand years.

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Related Topix: Tennessee, Mississippi, Pinson, TN, Madison County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Manchester, TN

Edward Champion's Return of the Reluc...

A Conversation with Jack Butler

This one hour radio special is the first in a series of "at-large" conversations presently categorized under the old "Bat Segundo" label.

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Newms360.com

Dems work on Miss. Medicaid expansion proposal

Mississippi legislative Democrats say they're working on proposals to keep Medicaid alive and funded in the budget year that starts July 1. They say they're doing this in case Republican Gov.

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Delta Farm Press

Cochran amendments intended to ensure Mississippi safety from flooding, storm surges

Sen. Thad Cochran has introduced a series of amendments intended to ensure the safety of Mississippians from flooding or storm surge threats that might result from a new flood control proposal for Louisiana.

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Related Topix: Thad Cochran, US Politics, Mississippi, US News, US Senate, Republican, Natural Disasters, Flood

For Whom The Cowbell Tolls

Is Dan Mullen the state of Mississippi's highest paid employee?

It appears that Dan is the highest paid state employee for our fine state, but that's based on a few assumptions.

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Related Topix: Mississippi, Sports, Mississippi State University NCAA, NCAA Sports

Mississippi Business Journal

Legislation aims to preserve Civil War battlefields

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran has introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the program that helps preserve historic battlegrounds in the United States, including battlefields in Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Thad Cochran, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Mississippi, Senator Tim Kaine

Mon May 13, 2013

Sunherald.com

Afaaf Shakir: Mississippi deserves a healthier reputation

We, as a state, have always had a bad reputation. We have been the poorest, fattest, most unhealthy, least educated, etc.

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