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• PMHS GRADUATION

  Picayune Memorial High School held its graduation ceremony Thursday night where the school’s valedictorian Jared Christopher Bates, left, and salutatorian Bryce Austin Warden gave their speeches.

  May 26, 2012 1 Photo

• POPLARVILLE GRADUATION

  Poplarville High School held its graduation ceremony Thursday night where the school’s valedictorian Rebecca Starke, left, and salutatorian Meagan Whitworth gave their speeches to the graduating class, parents and friends.

  May 26, 2012 1 Photo

• Local man paralyzed by juvenile shooting

  Medical personnel were teaching a local man how to swallow again on Saturday after his spinal cord was severed by a .22 caliber bullet, fired by one of three juveniles, on Thursday.

  May 26, 2012

• Potential bridge replacement fund shortage draws discussion

  Despite a lengthy agenda for Pearl River County supervisors Wednesday the board handled many of the items with a straight up and down 5-0 vote.

  May 26, 2012

• Glade Woods dies

  Funeral services for Earl Glade Woods , 75 of Picayune, are Monday at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Picayune. Woods passed away on Friday.

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Sports

• Gaudin returns to Hancock

  Rocky Gaudin is back as the head football coach at Hancock High school.
  He replaces David King, who left his alma mater after four years to become the offensive line coach at Biloxi High.

  May 16, 2012

• Blue Devils fall to Pascagoula
• Itawamba bombs River 14-3 in five to wrap Lady Wildcats’ season
• Union files grievance in bounty case
• NFL suspends 4 players for Saints’ bounties

Lifestyles

• Everyday Heroes: Officers and families of the Picayune Police Department

  The Picayune Police Department held a Memorial Service on May 4th, at which Senator Tony Smith was the guest speaker.

  May 26, 2012 1 Photo

• Picayune Rotary Club inducts new members
• Back home in high school with memories of the summer
• Hard work gets rewarded for Picayune High biology students
• Main Street June Summer Blues Out 2012

State News

• MHP on patrol for holiday

  Even though there has been a remarkable reduction in the number of fatalities in Mississippi over the past seven years, last year’s Memorial Day Weekend was particularly deadly.

  May 26, 2012

• Forecasters: 9 to 15 storms this hurricane season
• Miss. court sets execution dates for 2 of 3 men
• New, old law makers tout legislative successes
• Prosecutors: Delay sentencing in hate crime case

International

• Australian billionaire: Titanic II to sail in 2016

  An Australian billionaire said Monday he’ll build a high-tech replica of the Titanic at a Chinese shipyard and its maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York, just like its namesake planned.

  May 1, 2012

• Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship
• Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem
• Theory of relativity called into question
• Syrian protesters attack US embassy

Opinion

• Hood loses hired counsel fight

  By Sid Salter/Syndicated columnist
  The impact on John Q. Public from the passage of the so-called “sunshine law” regarding the implementation of restrictions and oversight of the hiring of outside counsel attorneys by the Mississippi Attorney General’s office has been vastly overstated by Attorney General Jim Hood and, to a degree, by Hood’s Republican political antagonists who passed the law over his objections.

  May 26, 2012

• Remembering war dead on Memorial Day
• ‘Calico Joe’ evokes memories
• Is there a censored race war?
• The virtues of grunt work

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