Entertainment

Spielberg to speak at 'Gettysburg Address' event

Director Steven Spielberg will deliver the keynote address at an observance commemorating the 149th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.”

Park officials in central Pennsylvania noted that Spielberg’s remarks will come days after the release of his film “Lincoln,” which stars Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. […]

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2 Miss. inmates wanted for murder captured in La. bar

Two Mississippi inmates suspected of fatally stabbing a 95-year-old woman after escaping from a prison were captured Tuesday in a bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, authorities said.

Richard Griffin, a supervisory inspector for the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Jackson, Miss., said information from confidential sources led authorities to the Razoo bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans., where James Robert Martin, 22, and David Bass, 26, were taken into custody by members of the task force. […]

Entertainment

First annual Tunica Balloon Bash scheduled

The air’s going to be hot in Tunica this November!

Visitors are invited to the 1st Annual Tunica Balloon Bash that will welcome 40 hot air balloons to four casino resort properties. Hot air balloonists from across the country will come together the weekend of Nov. 9 – 11 to compete in early morning races to win over $12,000 in cash and prizes. […]

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Louisiana man wanted for killing his father arrested in Miss.

A man arrested Tuesday morning in Mississippi for a Louisiana killing has confessed, authorities say.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain says deputies responded before dawn Tuesday when a relative called to say Billie Glenn Rawson, Jr. and his father had fought. The men shared a home in Pearl River, La. Strain says the fight was one-sided and Billie Rawson Sr. suffered trauma before his death. […]

Family Medicine

Dirty shoes? How did US steroids get contaminated?

Was it some moldy ceiling tiles? The dusty shoes of a careless employee? Or did the contamination ride in on one of the ingredients?

There are lots of ways fungus could have gotten inside the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose steroid medication has been linked to a lethal outbreak of a rare fungal form of meningitis. […]

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Boy killed after concrete falls on top of him

Authorities said an 11-year-old boy has died after an apparent accident outside an East Tupelo restaurant, WTVA reported.

Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green said Lorenzo Washington was playing by the dumpster area of a Huddle House restaurant with his mother and an employee nearby. […]