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1 hr ago | SiliconValley.com

Mississippi attorney general may subpoena Google on drug sales

Mississippi's attorney general says he still considers Google's responses to allegations that it's not doing enough to prevent illegal online sales of drugs without prescriptions and says he's sending out subpoenas for company documents to further his investigation.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, WebMD, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Criminal Defense Law, Law

10 hrs ago | The Clarion-Ledger

Tax collection growth bucks national trends in Mississippi

An analysis by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute at the State University of New York-Albany shows that the first quarter of 2013 saw state tax collections increase dramatically with strong growth in personal income tax collections -- the strongest growth since the start of the last recession.

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Related Topix: Mississippi, Tax

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Banner-Tribune

Exhibit looks at early Louisiana - Pipe Dreams'

In the early 1700s, France sent thousands of colonists and slaves to Louisiana in the belief that tobacco would refill a treasury drained by wars.

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Related Topix: Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, University of South Alabama

Insight News

The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863, A Transcription

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, New Orleans, LA

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Sunherald.com

Louisiana tobacco: Mississippi bubble, Natchez war

That dream continued until an Army captain's land grab triggered a massacre by Natchez Indians, who burned the plantations, said Erin M. Greenwald, curator of an exhibit about the colony's tobacco history.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Clarion-Ledger

Miss. No. 1 in late credit-card payments

Mississippi, already burdened with historically high poverty and low average household income, continues to falter in paying off its debt in a timely manner, a report states.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, TransUnion

Wed Jun 12, 2013

UPI

Mississippi honors Medgar Evers on 50th anniversary of his death

President Barack Obama kisses Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers before being sworn-in for a second term as the President of the United States by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during his public inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2013.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

The Bolivar Commercial

Supes awarded clean up grant

The Bolivar County Board of Supervisors announced earlier this month it received a grant from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to boost cleanup efforts throughout the county.

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Related Topix: Bolivar County, MS, Environmental, Environmental Quality, Waste Management, Greenville, MS, Boyle, MS

Tue Jun 11, 2013

US News & World Report

George Wallace Stood in a Doorway at the University of Alabama 50 Years Ago Today

Gov. George Wallace blocks the door at the University of Alabama to keep two black students from enrolling on June 11, 1963.

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Related Topix: Alabama, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Prison

Black Enterprise

Medgar Evers' Widow Keeping Husband's Legacy Alive

This week, Evers-Williams will hold events to remember her husband's work as the first Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Associated Press reports .

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The Fresno Bee

The Buzz: Newsom makes light of Napster founder's wedding

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, shown in January talking about his new book, on Monday declined to comment on the environmental impact of Sean Parker's multimillion-dollar coastal wedding.

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Related Topix: Startups, Napster, Gavin Newsom, Big Sur, CA, Lars Ulrich

Mon Jun 10, 2013

Sunherald.com

Delcambre made name for himself in seafood business

The life of U.S. Navy WWII veteran Paul Delcambre Sr. began on a farm and ended on a farm.

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Related Topix: Marketing

Alamogordo Daily News

Feds belatedly send $67 million in disaster funds

The federal government on Monday belatedly sent $67 million in disaster relief to 15 states, with the biggest share going to Colorado to help recovery from last year's devastating wildfires.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Mark Udall, US News, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Senator Mark Udall, Colorado, Colorado Government, Weather

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Natchez plans to restore tollbooth colonnades

The city of Natchez is planning to restore the historic tollbooth colonnade with funding from the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

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Related Topix: Natchez, MS

The Clarion-Ledger

'The Beautiful and the Deadly': Reptile exhibit quite striking

Most people probably don't know how big reticulated pythons and Gaboon vipers really are.

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Related Topix: Sarah, MS, Canton, MS

Sun Jun 09, 2013

Sunherald.com

Miss Methodists honor anti-segregation ministers

Slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers' wife, Myrlie Evers, was to present the state conference's Emma Elzy Award on Sunday to ministers Keith Tonkel and Maxie Dunnam on behalf of all 28 who signed the statement published in January 1963.

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Related Topix: Methodist, Religion, Mississippi Government, Mississippi

Anniston Star

H. Brandt Ayers: Where the ducks are

Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole doesn't believe any of the GOP stars from Eisenhower to Nixon, or even Reagan, could win a Republican primary campaign in today's party.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mike Rogers, Republican, US House of Representatives, Bob Dole, Opinion

Sat Jun 08, 2013

Lowell Sun

Daily dish

Model and reality TV actress Katherine Webb says she and the University of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron are still dating, but they're not engaged.

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Related Topix: University of Alabama, Alabama, Entertainment

Fri Jun 07, 2013

Northwest Florida Daily News

Airman's retirement leaves only 6 siblings in the Air Force - for now

With seven of nine siblings being active-duty airmen stationed all over the world, it's hard to organize a reunion.

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Related Topix: US Military, US News, US Air Force, World News, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Abu Ghraib, US National Guard

Sun Journal

New Bern man completes Elite Transcontinental bicycle ride

After cycling across the country in 17 days, Joe Avolis of New Bern can look back with memories of crossing the Arizona desert and hill country in Alabama and Mississippi, following storms that produced tornados in Oklahoma and accomplishing something not many people would even attempt.

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Related Topix: New Bern, NC, Kitty Hawk, NC, Route 66, Tornado, Natural Disasters, Weather