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Find Great Accommodation Options With Striking Attractions in Columbia

2010-03-15T09:24:08Z

Columbia is a county seat of Boone County and with estimated population of about 100,733 stands as the fifth largest city in United States.It holds the position of Columbia Metropolitan Area's principal municipality.This city known for its exciting and lively l...

Appeals court upholds conviction in Miss. killings

2010-03-13T12:30:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Appeals court affirms conviction of reputed Klansman in civil rights era cold case in Miss.</div><div><p>A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964.</p><p>In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges said ...

SEC Tennessee Mississippi Basketball

2010-03-12T15:34:16Z

Mississippi's Chris Warren (12) drives against Tennessee guard Melvin Goins (21) during the first half of an NCAA college ba...

Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom

2010-03-12T11:00:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Mississippi school sued after it calls off senior prom rather than let lesbian couple attend</div><div><p>A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.</p><p>The American Civi...

Miss. School Officials End Prom Over Lesbian Couple

2010-03-12T07:30:32Z

<div id="subtitle">A northern Mississippi high school has canceled its annual prom dance rather than allow a lesbian student attend with her girlfriend</div><div><p> <p>A northern Mississippi high school has canceled its annual prom dance rather than allow a lesbian student attend with her girlfriend, the AP reported.</p> <p>In a statement released Wednesday, the ACLU has sued a Miss. school board after officials decided to cancel a prom dance over a lesbian student</div><div><p> <p>The ACLU has sued a northern Mississippi school board after officials decided to cancel an annual high school prom dance rather than allow a lesbian student attend with her girlf...

Miss. unemployment agency in jeopardy

2010-03-10T16:17:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Mississippi's unemployment agency in jeopardy after reauthorization bill dies</div><div><p>The Mississippi Department of Employment Security was in jeopardy after a bill reauthorizing the agency died under a deadline Wednesday amid a fight to force Gov. Haley Barbour to accept...

Gas Prices Rise Two Cents In Last Week

2010-03-09T00:15:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Refineries running at reduced capacity due to lack of demand</div><div><p>The pace of the increase in gasoline prices has slowed, as the nationwide average approaches a new high for the year. The average price of self-serve regular Friday is $2.72 a gallon, according to AAA.</p><p>Today's national average price of diesel fuel is $2.883, up a penny from last Friday. Prices for gasoline have risen about seven cents a gallon in the last mont...

AT&T workers in Southeast ratify union contract

2010-03-06T00:30:18Z

<div id="subtitle">AT&T workers ratify union contract covering about 30,000 employees in the Southeast</div><div><p>AT&T Inc. said Friday that its employees approved a new three-year contract covering about 30,000 workers in the Southeast.</p><p>The new pact calls for pay and pension increases over the next three years and cash payments tied to the company's financial performance but also higher health care premiums.</p><p>The deal ...

Upper Midwest braces for severe spring flooding

2010-03-05T22:00:06Z

<div id="subtitle">The torrents of spring: Folks in the Upper Midwest brace for severe flooding _ again</div><div><p>Salesmen in Fargo are hawking products with names like the Muscle Wall and the Sandbagging Buddy. Emergency workers in Keokuk, Iowa, are planning to barricade the water treatment plant with limestone boulders. The farmers' cooperative in Michelle Obama visited Jackson on Wednesday and watched children play on swings and a jungle gym at a school whose programs have been lauded for fighting obesity by keeping kids active.</p><p>It was the first of her two stops in Barry Hannah dies at 67 in his Mississippi home, was Pulitzer nominee for short stories</div><div><p>Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.</p>&...

Desperate for work, Miss. town awaits Toyota plant

2010-02-28T10:45:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Desperate for work amid recall, Miss. town awaits Toyota plant delayed by slow car sales</div><div><p>Terry McShan isn't thinking about car sales analyses or excess capacity when he drives by the idle Toyota plant in northeast Mississippi. He's thinking about his little girl.</p><p>Like most Mississippians, th...

CORRECTION Vanderbilt Mississippi Basketball

2010-02-18T19:47:57Z

Vanderbilt guard Jeffery Taylor (44) shoots a first-half basket over Mississippi guard Zach Graham (32) during their NCAA

Feds pass on surest solution to Asian carp advance

2010-02-22T10:08:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Feds' plan passes on surest solution to Asian carp advance: cutting off access to Great Lakes</div><div><p>With marauding Asian carp on the Great Lakes' doorstep, the federal government has crafted a $78.5 million battle plan that offers no assurance of thwarting an invasion and doesn't use the most promising weapon available to fight it off.</p><p>The surest way to prevent the huge, hungry car...

news first lady obesity

2010-02-10T17:16:00Z

Mayor Chip Johnson of Hernando, Mississippi; Launch of the First Lady's initiative Let's Move, fighting childhood obesity Washington DC, USA - 09.02.10

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'Visionary' ex-Miss. Choctaw chief Martin dies

2010-02-22T11:21:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Ex-Choctaw chief remembered as 'visionary' who led tribe from poverty with 2 Miss. casinos</div><div><p>Phillip Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was remembered Friday as a visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses.</p><p>Martin died Thursday night at a Jac...

Eli Lily Pays Mississippi $18.5 Million to Settle Zyprexa Claim

2010-02-22T11:36:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Money arrives at critical time, state says</div><div><p>The State of Mississippi has recovered some much needed cash, as drug giant Eli Lilly has agreed to an $18.5 million fraud settlement over the drug Zyprexa.</p><p>The ...

Arkansas Mississippi Basketball

2010-01-31T20:38:22Z

Mississippi forward Terrance Henry (1) shoots a first-half basket over Arkansas forward Marshawn Powell (33) during an NCAA college basketball game in International Paper mill explosion in Mississippi</div><div><p>Two brothers injured in a deadly explosion at an International Paper Co. mill in Mississippi have agreed to settle their federal lawsuit.</p><p>David and