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• SIDEWALK WORK CONTINUES

  SIDEWALK WORK CONTINUES — Jeffrey Hartfield, left, and Eddie Fry finish up sidewalk work in front of Snyder Park on Beech Street on Thursday. They work for RJM, which subcontracted the work from HSI. Almost the full length of Beech is getting a workover in a $400,000 project.

  February 10, 2012 1 Photo

• CROSSES ERECTED St. Charles Catholic Church on Goodyear Boulevard has erected crosses it says represents the number of abortion daily in the U.S.

  February 10, 2012 1 Photo

• Shooting suspects bound to grand jury Two of the three suspects involved in December’s deadly shoot-out have been bound over to the grand jury. Those defendants are 27-year-old Quincy Jones and 31-year-old Decori King.

  February 10, 2012

• Saturday noon is last chance to register to vote in March 13 primaries The heated race to see who will get the Republican nomination for President continues and is coming to Pearl River County, as voters trek to the polls to vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries on March 13, and in the primaries for the U.S. Senate and congressional races.

  February 10, 2012

• Friends of Boley discuss next cleanup Members of the Friends of Boley met Thursday morning to plan for their next big cleanup. With the next cleanup scheduled for April 21, Christy Goss, a city employee, suggested combining that effort with the Great American Cleanup the city participates in each year.

  February 10, 2012

Sports

• Tide teams advance

  Both Picayune basketball teams will be playing for Region 8-5A championships Friday night. The Lady Tide returned to the Class 5A South State playoffs for the first time in two years, thanks to a 47-40 win over West Harrison.

  February 8, 2012 1 Photo

• Season ends for PRC teams
• League tourneys set
• Super Bowl today
• Picayune sweeps Pearl River Central

Lifestyles

• These walls are talking and they have stories to tell

  Thirteen captivating days of historic home tours via an authentic double-decker bus, candlelight reenactments at Friendship Cemetery, dining, boutique shopping and walking tours in Columbus, Miss.

  February 8, 2012 1 Photo

• PRCC dental hygiene students brighten kids’ smiles
• Planning ahead makes a difference in landscape
• “Words With Friends” kidnaps innocent brain cells
• Mr. Know it all: ‘A River Runs Through it’ Montana

State News

• Miss. high court hears arguments over pardons

  Feuding attorneys asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday to determine the validity of pardons that Haley Barbour gave to convicted killers and other convicts during his final days as governor. Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. said the court would not rule Thursday, but he didn’t say when a decision would come.

  February 10, 2012

• Senate votes to merge 3 Sunflower school districts
• Kansas, Missouri fight to keep Marine data center
• Judge temporarily blocks Mississippi execution
• New rules, tests proposed for public aid in Miss.

International

• Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship

  Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship, but is it realistic to expect skippers to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to stare down death from the bridge, as the lights go out and the water rises, until everyone else has made it to safety?

  January 20, 2012

• Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem
• Theory of relativity called into question
• Syrian protesters attack US embassy
• US aid cutoff followed by drone strike in Pakistan

Opinion

• Health Care fund may hit zero

  A new Republican governor and new Republican legislative leadership now face the same task that has confounded their Democratic colleagues when they had the reins of state government — finding a way to pay for Mississippi’s massive Medicaid program.

  February 8, 2012

• Komen backlash wrongheaded
• Voting rights attack is un-American
• Size of Universe is unimaginable
• Numbers suggest priorities

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