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Wildfire burns around McCondy UMC
by Floyd Ingram/Chickasaw Journal
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This fire burned right up to the church and stopped. But you might not be so lucky.
Parents for Public Schools projects on tap for Okolona schools
by Mack Spencer/Chickasaw Journal
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Low scores were cited as one of the several reasons that takeover of the school district here was recommended.
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2 Americans killed in drive-by shooting in Mexico (AP)

View of the US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico on March 2. Suspected drug cartel AP - Three people with ties to the American consulate in a drug-plagued Mexican city were killed in a drive-by shooting, a U.S. official said Sunday.


Sun Mar 14 13:15:38 -0500 2010
Dem House vote-counter lacks health care votes now (AP)

A doctor administers a shot to a patient at a hospital ER unit. The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)AP - The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects.


Sun Mar 14 17:19:59 -0500 2010
Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2005 file photo, Susan Chapman, director of the Division of Federal Investments, sorts through paper securities pulled from a safe at the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt offices in Parkersburg, W.Va. The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. It's time to start cashing them in. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, FILE)AP - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.


Sun Mar 14 18:19:56 -0500 2010