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  1. MUSIC: Delta bluesman Davis to sing Friday at tavern, pool hallRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | Arkansas Online

    ... so he could get in more rehearsal time with the members of Brethren. On April 18, Davis and Brethren played in Clarksdale, Miss., at the Juke Joint Festival. In October, Davis performed with another notable bluesman, Bobby Rush, at Maxinea s, a Hot ...

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    Related Topix: Hot Springs, AR, Pine Bluff, AR, Little Rock, AR

  2. First daughter, then mom? That's not coolRead the original story

    14 hrs ago | Hattiesburg American

    ... wrong for me to pursue Linda? - Doug, Jacksonville, Fla. (It's OK) only if Michele is OK with it. - Cathy, 49, Clarksdale, Miss. The fact that you and Michele were intimate makes this easy: Yes, it is wrong for you to pursue her mother. The ...

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  3. Why are young people starting to smoke?Read the original story

    14 hrs ago | The Tennessean

    ... quality of life away from him. 'My father started smoking when he was an 8-year-old youngster growing up in Clarksdale, Miss.,' Bowman told me. 'He smoked up until he was about 24 or 25 years old. And he has lived off and on with cancer for more ...

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  4. Blues on the upbeat: Johnny Rawls hopes El Patio friends attend Rio Grande Theatre showRead the original story

    Yesterday | Las Cruces Sun-News

    ZIP code 39475 in Mississippi is not the birthplace of the blues. That geographic distinction belongs, according to blues legend, about 200 miles to the north near Clarksdale, Miss., at the crossroads of highways 61 and 49.

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    Related Topix: Johnny Rawls, Blues, Robert Johnson, Purvis, MS, Theater, Arts

  5. Anderson tabbed Warriorsa head coachRead the original story

    Tuesday | Meridian Star

    ... other candidates were Freeman Horton, head football coach and athletic director at Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, and Brad Peterson, head football coach at Louisville High School. A A Anderson joined the ECCC staff in 2008 as offensive ...

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  6. Anderson Named ECCC Head Football CoachRead the original story

    Yesterday | WTOK-TV Meridian

    ... other candidates were Freeman Horton, head football coach and athletic director at Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, and Brad Peterson, head football coach at Louisville High School. Anderson joined the ECCC staff in 2008 as offensive ...

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  7. Alliance lands two grants

    Tuesday | Mississippi Business Journal

    ... with the Delta Health Alliance in these grant programs include community mental health centers in Greenwood and Clarksdale, their satellite sites in Charleston, Indianola and Belzoni, the Mississippi State Hospital in Whitfield and the University of ...

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    Related Topix: Mississippi, Agriculture, Science, Charleston, MS, Indianola, MS, Belzoni, MS

  8. Hu Meena Chief Executive Officer and President, Cellular South, Inc., 51, JacksonRead the original story

    Sunday Dec 13 | The Clarion-Ledger

    ... first office in Gulfport in February of 1988. Mississippi has been my home for 49 of my 51 years. I was raised in Clarksdale and have lived in Oxford, Greenwood, Starkville, Long Beach, Ridgeland and, now, Jackson. I have found all areas of our ...

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    Related Topix: Social Software, Mississippi, Long Beach, MS, Gulfport, MS

  9. Dancing at a Book PartyRead the original story

    Friday Dec 11 | GalleyCat

    ... Tennessee down to Greenville, Mississippi. At the halfway point, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, sits Clarksdale, Mississippi, the city considered the birthplace of the blues and the location of Robert Johnson 's famed 'Cross Road Blues' ...

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  10. Andy's Rest. Scorecard: Best in Oxford, MS, plus scores as of

    Thursday Dec 10 | WMC-FM

    ... out their own meat, and I like that," said Ann Garland Russell, who'll get in her car and drive all the way from Clarksdale, MS, to chomp on a Phillips burger. "I like the onions, too!" Owner Emmie Lou Harlan Greene used to eat burgers at the ...

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    Related Topix: Oxford, MS, Holly Springs, MS

  11. Bean, Lee DoishRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Dec 9 | Dayton Daily News

    ... Sr. (Patricia) Bean and Jimmie L. (Joan) Bean; two sisters Louise Redmond, of Dayton, OH, Lottie Mae Simmons, of Clarksdale, MS; one sister-in-law Mamie Lee (Willie A.) Pearson, of Houlka, MS; one daugher-in-law Consuelo M. Bean and special friends ...

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  12. Vazquez birthRead the original story

    Monday Dec 7 | Bolivar Commercial

    Cesar and Jennifer Vazquez of Cleveland announce the birth of their son, Triston Alexandro, on November 25, 2009, at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale.

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  13. Director of the Bureau of Land Management: Who Is Bob Abbey?Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 2 | The Westerner

    ... the position by Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the powerful Senate Majority Leader. Born circa 1951 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Abbey is a 1969 graduate of Clarksdale High School. He went on to earn a B.S. in Resource Management from the ...

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    Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat, University of Southern Mississippi

  14. Oldest of old-time bluesmen still wailing

    Monday Nov 30 | The Clarion-Ledger

    ... and other bluesmen. However, when asked about his longevity during a break at a recent music tribute to him in Clarksdale, Perkins replied: 'I always try to do something different all the time.' The Pinetop Perkins Homecoming was held in October at ...

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    Related Topix: Pinetop Perkins, Blues, Muddy Waters, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Hopson, MS, Belzoni, MS

  15. Pinetop Perkinsa 80-year creer still goingRead the original story

    Saturday Nov 28 | Picayune Item

    ... and other bluesmen. However, when asked about his longevity during a break at a recent music tribute to him in Clarksdale, Perkins replied: "I always try to do something different all the time." The Pinetop Perkins Homecoming was held in October at ...

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    Related Topix: Pinetop Perkins, Blues, Muddy Waters, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Hopson, MS, Belzoni, MS

  16. Pinetop Perkins' 80-year creer still goingRead the original story

    Friday Nov 27 | The Mississippi Press

    CLARKSDALE, Miss. - Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins.

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    Related Topix: Pinetop Perkins, Blues, Muddy Waters, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Hopson, MS, Belzoni, MS

  17. Pinetop Perkins, Still Strumming 80 Years LaterRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Nov 27 | ABC News

    ... Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins motions a "thumbs up" gesture during the annual festival at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Miss., honoring him. Although he is 96 years old, Perkins, who formerly drove a tractor at the plantation in the 1940's, keeps ...

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    Related Topix: Pinetop Perkins, Blues, Travel

  18. Guilty Verdict Against Police Chief Brings Angry Reaction

    Tuesday Nov 24 | WREG

    ... Mid-South, and especially in Mississippi where the incident and trial occurred. A Southaven municipal judge found Clarksdale police chief Greg Hoskins guilty of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in an incident which happened on father's day ...

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  19. GrowDelta to hold another eventRead the original story

    Tuesday Nov 24 | Mississippi Business Journal

    CLARKSDALE a ' The GrowDelta Initiative is slated to host its second event this year Dec.

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  20. DSU inducts three in Hall of Fame

    Tuesday Nov 24 | Mississippi Business Journal

    The 2009 Delta State University Alumni Hall of Fame inductees are , Billy B. Nowell of Cleveland, Donald L. Green of Clarksdale and Karen Sullivan of Brookhaven, accepting the award presented posthumously to Doug Sullivan.

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