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SeaWorld admits to planting spies in animal rights group

February 29, 2016 Online Editor 0

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — SeaWorld acknowledged that it sent its own workers to infiltrate an animal rights group which opposed the practices of the theme park. The development comes months after People for the Ethical […]

News

Legislators talk gas tax increase to repair roads, bridges

February 29, 2016 Online Editor 0

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The heads of the Mississippi Legislature’s transportation committee are considering raising the gas tax to maintain the state’s highways and bridges. The joint House-Senate committee heard a presentation from the Mississippi […]

Health

Mississippi faces $52 million Medicaid budget gap this year

February 29, 2016 Online Editor 0

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The top budget writer in the Mississippi House says the state’s Medicaid program needs another $52 million during the budget year that ends June 30. Appropriations Committee Chairman Herb Frierson also […]

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Black Caucus stalls Mississippi House work amid tensions

February 26, 2016 Online Editor 0

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Black Democrats in the Mississippi House say Republicans are unfairly freezing them out of the legislative process, and they are stalling business to pressure the majority GOP. Legislative Black Caucus leader […]

Education

Senators barely pass plan raising 3rd-grade reading requirements

February 26, 2016 Online Editor 0

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A plan to raise reading requirements for third-graders survived the Mississippi Senate by one vote Wednesday. Senators voted 25-24 to pass Senate Bill 2157, which would require third-graders to score higher than […]

Entertainment

Elvis Presley’s doctor, ‘Dr. Nick’ Nichopoulos, dies at 88

February 26, 2016 Online Editor 0

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — A funeral home says Elvis Presley’s former personal doctor has died. Memorial Park Funeral Home in Memphis said in an obituary posted on its website that 88-year-old George C. Nichopoulos died […]

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Man charged in burning death of Mississippi teen Jessica Chambers

February 26, 2016 Online Editor 0

BATESVILLE, Mississippi (AP) — It took investigators more than a year of painstaking work, but they say they have finally cracked the case of a former high school cheerleader who was found near death in […]

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Canton courtroom honors Brown-Wright

February 25, 2016 Online Editor 0

By Shanderia K. Posey Editor Flonzie Brown-Wright, 73, a Mississippi civil rights icon who fearlessly worked to get blacks registered to vote in the 1960s, has been recognized numerous times for her work. She was […]

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