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We welcome your items for On the Menu, a wrap-up of area food events. Submit items by e-mail , postal service (P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), fax (601-634-0897), delivered in person to 16...
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A Department of Mental Health grant for the Family-to-Family course offered by the Mississippi Chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness is due to expire Sept. 30, which means the Vicksburg cl...
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Mary Poppins swears by “just a spoon full of sugar,” but beekeeper Sid Ervin says raw honey will do. Not to make the medicine go down, rather to reduce allergies and increase overall well-being.
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The Salvation Army’s 31st annual Soup & Salad Luncheon fundraiser is set for Oct. 12. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Crawford Street United Methodist Church’s Wesley Hall. It will...
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Gardeners have, for centuries, passed on their experience and knowledge of nature to younger generations.
It was a way of life in the rural South until a generation ago. Many residents grew up on ...
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Auditions this week for ‘Rocky Horror’ Singers, dancers, actors and musicians 18 and older are being sought for the “Rocky Horror Show,” to be presented by the Westside Theatre Foundation. Audi...
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PORT GIBSON — If you see a pretty girl driving down the street, and you want to know her name and where she lives, what do you do?
If you’re a highway patrolman, you might pull her over on some ...
National News
AP - Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans — and some fellow Democrats — just two months before bruising midterm elections.
Wed Sep 08 17:58:08 -0500 2010
AP - The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions and put Americans abroad at risk.
Wed Sep 08 18:18:25 -0500 2010
AP - BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.
Wed Sep 08 15:35:16 -0500 2010
AP - Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans — and some fellow Democrats — just two months before bruising midterm elections.
Wed Sep 08 17:58:08 -0500 2010
AP - The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions and put Americans abroad at risk.
Wed Sep 08 18:18:25 -0500 2010
AP - BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.
Wed Sep 08 15:35:16 -0500 2010