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Wildfire burns around McCondy UMC
This fire burned right up to the church and stopped. But you might not be so lucky.
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Parents for Public Schools projects on tap for Okolona schools
Low scores were cited as one of the several reasons that takeover of the school district here was recommended.
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Houston seeks bonds for street repair
There are lots of street in Houston that need to be repaired, but only so many city dollars.
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Murphree elected to Houlka board
Special election went to run-off.
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PACE Foundation announces 2010 grant cycle
The PACE Foundation will begin accepting grant applications beginning March 15 for the 2010 grant cycle which will continue through June 15.
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Houston parents plan special school projects
Organizers attended Parent Leadership Institute.
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UPDATE: Houston School Board upholds firing of teacher who used racial slur
Everybody wanted to have their say, but the Houston School Board made the final decision.
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Sen. Jack Gordon UPDATE: State Sen. Gordon hospitalized in 'good' condition
Mississippi state Sen. Jack Gordon remained hospitalized Monday but his condition has been upgraded from critical to good.
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Franklin celebrates 40th
by Floyd Ingram/Chickasaw Journal
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Houston furniture companies has sawed, sewn and shipped for four decades.
Okolona gets answers to takeover concerns
by Floyd Ingram/Chickasaw Journal
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Parents, students, teachers and community members packed the Okolona High School gym Monday night to hear about a new direction for Okolona schools.
WIN Job Center approaches completion
by Mack Spencer/Chickasaw Journal
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Veterans seek new flagpole for monument.
Cub Scouts of Troop 19 rewarded for effort
by Special to the Chickasaw Journal
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Cub Scouts in Troop 19 in Houston were treated to a party following their award ceremony in December.
County officials adopt “wait-and-see” position on inmate labor
by Lisa Voyles/Chickasaw Journal
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In light of state budget cuts that threatened compensation for the inmate work program, state Sheriffs and county government officials made a trip to Jackson last week to try to find a solution.
Barbours OKs state control of Okolona schools
by The Associated Press
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Gov. Haley Barbour has signed an order that gives the state control of the troubled Okolona Municipal Separate School District.
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In this Wednesday, March 10, 2010 photo, bartender Sean McGuinness pauses while working at the Resurrection Ale House, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Philadelphia. An anonymous complaint that the Philadelphia bar was selling beer that has not been properly licensed with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board led to raids on three upscale bars last week in which police confiscated three quarter-kegs and 317 bottles of beer that believed to have not been properly registered with the state. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - A real brew-haha has beer lovers in the City of Brotherly love frothing over with anger.


Fri Mar 12 04:57:21 -0600 2010

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2007, file photo released by the University of Wisconsin Medical School shows a virtual colonoscopy, a 3-D image that was computer-generated from a series of X-rays taken by a CT scanner. Virtual colonoscopies are just one of the many costly medical tests that recent reports have said are being done too often. (AP Photo/ Courtesy of Dr. Perry J. Pickhardt/ University of Wisconsin Medical School, file)AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.


Fri Mar 12 04:46:29 -0600 2010

Firemen and rescue personnel work at the site of the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.(AFP/File/Marcos Townsend)AP - A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair.


Fri Mar 12 04:39:29 -0600 2010

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago.


Fri Mar 12 04:41:32 -0600 2010