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Best Outdoor Dining Beyond Fondren
BRAVO! Italian Restaurant and Bar offers wood-fired pizzas, pastas, gourmet entrees, a gluten-free menu and more.
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At Least 50 Dead as Huge Warehouse Blasts Hit Chinese Port
Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday …
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Education
PEER Questions Grading System for Public Schools
A legislative oversight group is questioning the way Mississippi grades its public schools even as the state moves forward with plans to take control of schools considered failing.
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Education
How School Districts Try to Make the Grade
The new system for grading Mississippi public schools is under fire in a recent PEER study that has called for changes.
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Bryan's Rant
Bryan’s Wild Predictions 2015
Each year around this time, I take a look in my cloudy crystal ball and make some predictions about the upcoming college-football season.
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Pope Speeds Up, Simplifies Process for Marriage Annulments
Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure.
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Kentucky Clerk Won't Interfere with Gay Marriage Licenses
Clerk Kim Davis returned to work Monday for the first time since being jailed for disobeying a federal judge and said she was faced with a "seemingly impossible choice" between …
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Business
Ministers, Black-Owned Businesses Want More Contracts and City Support
Three dozen business owners and clergy members gathered in front of City Hall on Sept. 30 to charge that infighting among city officials has thrown Jackson into economic paralysis.
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Person of the Day
Sean Payton
A report that surfaced this past Sunday said that after this season, teams such as the Miami Dolphins, who have already fired their head coach, and possibly the Indianapolis Colts …
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Former Iraqi Pilots Train IS Fighters on MiG Jets
The Islamic State group is test flying, with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots, several fighter jets captured earlier from air bases belonging to the Syrian military, a …
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Syrian Rebels Enter Kurdish Town from Turkey
For the first time since the Islamic State group launched an offensive on the Syrian border town of Kobani last month, a small group of Syrian rebels on Wednesday entered …
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Art
Justin Mabry: Behind the Mask
Most kids get toys or ice cream as a reward or to celebrate a special occasion. When Justin Mabry was a kid, he got a new mask.
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Africans Worst Responders in Ebola Crisis
The head of Africa's continental body did not get to an Ebola-hit country until last week—months after alarm bells first rang and nearly 5,000 deaths later.
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Brittany Maynard Galvanizes Right-to-Die Movement
With no states voting on right-to-die laws Tuesday, the weekend death of Brittany Maynard won't have an immediate political impact.
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Brush Strokes of a Southern Love Story
The love story of Nell Knox and William Goodman began in June 2011 at a mutual friend's house.
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Iraq's Forces Drive IS Militants from Key Town
Iraqi forces drove Islamic State militants out of a strategic oil refinery town north of Baghdad on Friday, scoring their biggest battlefield victory since they melted away in the face …
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European Jihadis Take Lead Roles in Killing Video
Three young Europeans are believed to be among the cold-eyed fighters on a propaganda video showing a beheaded American aid worker and the deaths of Syrian soldiers, as the extremist …
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Ferguson Mayor: No Severance Package for Wilson
Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive a severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb's mayor said Sunday.
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Armenians Around the World Mark 1915 Genocide
Around the world on Friday, tens of thousands of people of Armenian descent commemorated the genocide 100 years ago of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
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Union-Backed Dems Make Final Push to Kill Obama's Trade Bill
Union-backed Democrats launched a last-ditch effort Thursday to scuttle President Barack Obama's trade agenda by sacrificing a favored program of their own that retrains workers displaced by international trade.
