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So, college football hasn't been everything fans might have hoped for this season. The good news is that college basketball starts in just one week.

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College Basketball Preview 2016: The Bigs

College football is entering the home stretch, the leaves have fallen from the trees, and the weather is beginning to stay cool. While it isn't quite time for the holiday …

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Raging Machine vs. Indigent Man

The Law is a mighty machine. Woe to the unfortunate man who, wholly or in part innocent, becomes entangled in its mighty wheels, unless his innocence is patent or his …

Editorial

Kitchens for Mississippi Supreme Court

Yet again, a race for a vitally important position in Mississippi has devolved into misleading rhetoric about a candidate for, supposedly, being soft on violent crime.

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Deplorable Me

A report on "The Trump Effect" by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that the levels of anxiety, fear, and bullying in schools have increased, due in part to the …

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JPS Students Confront Police Brutality With Art

When Forest Hill High School teacher Paige Watson taught 9th-grade English last year, her students read law professor Michelle Alexander's book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age …

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Martin and Lettieri: Risk and Reward

Shaun Martin and Mark Lettieri certainly have a lot of options for their fans to choose from. Together, they're perhaps best known as members of Grammy Award-winning instrumental ensemble Snarky …

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‘Mad and Scared’: The Religious Shift in U.S., Mississippi Politics

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says no one has seen a presidential election like this one in his lifetime, at least. Speaking at the Mississippi Economic Council's Hob Nob event …

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Thai House Closing, Erik Kegler Interiors, Innovate Mississippi and MUW

Owners Watt and Tim Bunniran are closing their restaurant, Thai House, on Nov. 30 to go into retirement.

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'Mississippi's Elections Are Not Rigged,' Secretary of State Promises

Mississippians will head to the polls in a week at more than 1,800 precincts around the state. Each polling precinct will have some of an estimated 10,000 trained poll workers …

Education

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Will Serve as Interim JSU President

Rod Paige has dedicated his life to breaking through barriers and providing opportunities for young people to succeed.

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Nick Fitzgerald

Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen has run some variation of the spread offense since he arrived at the school eight years ago. This year's version could be described in two …

World

Iraqi Forces Enter Mosul City Limits, Main Urban Fight Ahead

Iraq's special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday, taking the state television building and advancing despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who hold the city, an …

National

Clinton Seeks to Use New FBI Inquiry as Galvanizing Force

Even before FBI Director James Comey jolted the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and her advisers were on edge.

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Drought-like Conditions Lead to More Burn Bans, One Fatality

Droughts can lead to wildfires, which is why, in the midst of continuing drought in the South, Gov. Phil Bryant issued a burn ban for more than 50 counties on …

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Natalie Collier

At Conversation About Community, Natalie Collier plans to discuss the impact that living in fear has on life in the state and how Mississippians can work to move past it.

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MAEP Co-author Calls Tinkering with Public-School Formula 'Terrifying'

"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic." That's the way Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, described the joint meeting between the House and Senate Education Committees yesterday.

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Seratones

From the ample amounts of soul and rock-and-roll that Seratones of Shreveport, La., pours into its sound, some listeners may be surprised that punk music is the group's foundation.

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Oregon Case Jury Delivers Blow to Government in Lands Fight

A jury delivered an extraordinary blow to the government in a long-running battle over the use of public lands when it acquitted all seven defendants involved in the armed occupation …

National

Clinton Has Big Cash Lead; Pence says Message Matters More

Donald Trump's campaign said Friday the billionaire businessman may plunge more of his personal fortune into his presidential bid after new federal filings that show Hillary Clinton with an $85 …