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L.C. Greenwood

L.C. Greenwood, football legend and Canton native, passed away due to natural causes in a Pittsburgh hospital Sunday, Sept 29. He was 67.

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HeARTworks

Local artist Stacy Underwood works with Stewpot Community Services' clients to give them an artistic outlet.

National

Tropical Storm Karen Forms in the Gulf of Mexico

Tropical Storm Karen has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, and a hurricane watch is in effect along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida.

Health Care

Shutdown in 3rd Day with Obama, Hill at Impasse

The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown Thursday with no sign of a way out after a White House conversation between President Barack Obama and top congressional …

Health Care

Online Delays Signal Strong Demand for Health Care

Overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for health insurance under the nation's historic health care overhaul.

State

Natchez Trace Threatened by Budget Fight

Visitors are being turned away from the Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg and seven other National Park Service sites in Mississippi because of the partial shutdown of the federal government.

Business

Miss. Power Confirms Kemper Plant Delay

Mississippi Power Co. says its Kemper County power plant won't be finished by the original May 2014 deadline.

National

4 Head Start Providers Serving 3,200 Kids Close

Four Head Start providers that serve 3,200 low-income children in four states are closing due to the federal government shutdown.

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Remember the 1992 NLCS

One of the longest playoff droughts in North American sports ended last week. The Pittsburgh Pirates earned one of the two wild card berths in MLB's National League, ending the …

Sports

The Slate

Folks should feel some hope around Hattiesburg this week—not just about finally getting a winner in the mayoral election—but on the football field.

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A Maverick of Harmonica

Scott Albert Johnson’s personal history in music led him to playing the harmonica.

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Street Corner Symphony's Modern A Capella

A cappella group Street Corner Symphony performs Oct. 11 at Duling Hall.

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‘Rush’: Fast, Furious Boys

Chris Hemsworth plays a Formula 1 racecar driver in Ron Howard’s “Rush.”

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Roz Roy Teaching at MCM

When your kids are with Roz Roy, they are in good hands. As their guide, Roy helps children make art that is personal to them.

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Vermeer: Love and Leisure

Filmmaker Phil Grabsky’s newest exhibition film “Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure” allows viewers to see Vermeer—artist of “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” above—in a new way.

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Yoga for Sleep

This is part two in an instructional yoga series, each part focused on yoga positions for different purposes.

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Scandinavian Sightseeing

When I first considered going to Norway, it was really hard to think of anything that I knew about the country, other than it has some weird-looking extra letters in …

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Fighting the Power in Kemper County

Barbara Correro's house sits just off an unpaved road of sandy, bright-red clay and under a canopy of shortleaf and southern yellow pine, sweetgum, oak, flowering dogwood, elm and hickory …

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Last of the Letter Writers

Sandy Margolis, the last of the letter writers, died at age 74 two years ago this September.

Editorial

The Power We Consume

President Barack Obama's administration recently set tough emission standards for electric utility companies that still rely heavily on burning carbon-heavy fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal.