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Suspicious object just “homemade speaker”
The parking lot of the Sam’s Club/Wal-Mart Shopping Center was closed down for much of the afternoon last Thursday after a “suspicious item” was found there, the Hattiesburg Poli...
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Economics 101 – State deals school district a budgetary blow
With one of the largest school districts in the area, the Lamar County School District could see a cut of about $2 million in state funding in its budget for the current school year as the result ...
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Work Continues – 4th Street project is ongoing
Officials are hopeful that the section of West Fourth Street between Weathersby Road and Gravel Pit Road will be reopened to traffic in time for the Thanksgiving shopping season.
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Chuck Bennett with some of the publications he has had the opportunity to write for. Sports Minded: County administrator enjoys forays into the writing world
Brett Favre’s decision not to retire – which once delayed publication of a book written in part by Lamar County resident Chuck Bennett – could now bring renewed interest to the book his acti...
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Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri (AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans.


Wed Mar 10 14:35:21 -0600 2010
Biden says Palestinians deserve 'viable' state (AP)

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, gestures next to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, right, during a visit at the Nassar stone factory at the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Biden said Wednesday the Palestinians deserve a 'viable' independent state with contiguous territory, seeking to reassure them of U.S. support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Vice President Joe Biden's displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement was on display Wednesday as he warned against actions that "inflame tensions" and reassured his Palestinian hosts that they deserve a sustainable, independent state.


Wed Mar 10 14:30:01 -0600 2010
'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38 (AP)

This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDITAP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.


Wed Mar 10 14:32:42 -0600 2010