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Community Connections: Bringing neighbors and friends together
In every neighborhood, it can be tempting to remain busy and disconnected, without investing time to befriend your neighbors. Though it may require some effort, communities are better off when …
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Home & Garden
Positive Parenting Through Divorce
Just about every other marriage these days ends in divorce. No matter the cause, it can be breathtakingly painful. And when kids are involved, it can be difficult to put …
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Senate OKs Dem Tax-Cut Bill in Showdown with GOP
Democrats pushed a yearlong extension of tax cuts for all but the highest-earning Americans through the Senate on Wednesday, giving President Barack Obama and his party a significant political victory.
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Katie Shelt and Mason Stewart
Katie Shelt knew she was going to marry Mason Stewart after he told her he identified with Faramir, a charcter from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogyamong her …
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Key Games
It happens nearly every year for teams in college football. There's one game coaches and fans point back to as the key game of the past year.
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Q&A: Curtis Wilkie on the Wrong Crowd
Author and University of Mississippi professor Curtis Wilkie speaks with a degree of sadness when he references the life of disgraced Mississippi attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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Toll in Bangladesh Building Collapse Passes 300
More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and …
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Relax on Mother’s Day with Local Restaurants
Mothers make the world go round. They serve and take care of children and family, husbands and sometimes even child-like husbands. They deserve a day to themselves, a day to …
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AP: Costs of U.S. Wars Linger for Over 100 Years
If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the …
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Survey: Low-Wage Workers Gloomy About Future
America's lower-income workers have posted the biggest job gains since the deep 2007-09 recession—but few are bragging.
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Political Brinksmanship Still Threatens U.S. Economy
Lawmakers managed to avoid driving the United States over the so-called fiscal cliff with a late-night vote Tuesday. But higher taxes and brinksmanship in Washington are likely to sap strength …
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Will the BCS Championship Game Live Up to the Hype?
MIAMI (AP) — Sometimes, the buildup to a game can overwhelm what actually happens on the field.
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2012 Military Suicides Hit a Record High of 349
Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow …
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From Misery to Tragedy in Egyptian Train Crash
At a station just outside of Cairo before dawn Tuesday, the train's last car jumped the track, slammed into a parked train, and then was dragged for several kilometers.
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Olympic Flame Relay Highlights Putin's Russia
In the words of President Vladimir Putin, the four-month Olympic flame relay will "show the world Russia as she is and as we love her."
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House Votes 285-144 To Reopen Government, Lift Debt Ceiling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up against a deadline, Congress passed and sent a waiting President Barack Obama legislation late Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day …
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Despite Ruling, Egypt Holds Off on Ending Curfew
A court declared that Egypt's 3-month-old state of emergency expired Tuesday, two days earlier than expected, but the military and security officials held off from implementing the ruling and lifting …
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God-Given Economic Development
Mississippi is making a concerted push to capture some of the enormous money in the health-care industry. That push, however, doesn't include what experts deem two of the most vital …
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Obama Seeks Support for Syria Strike at G-20
Facing roadblocks at home and abroad, President Barack Obama this week plans to urge reluctant world leaders to back an American-led strike against Syria even though the prospects for military …
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Outlines of Egypt Army's Post-Morsi Plan Emerge
Egypt's military has drawn up a plan to suspend the Islamist-backed constitution, dissolve the Islamist-dominated legislature and set up an interim administration headed by the country's chief justice if President …
