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NEW ALBANY, Miss. — Police say the wife of New Albany High School's football coach has been killed in a shooting at their home that also wounded the coach. AP Article. Excerpted

SCOOBA – With the national championship of junior college football at stake, the second-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College travel to Yuma, Ariz., to meet the home-standing and top-ranked Matadors of Arizona Western College Saturday afternoon in the El Toro Bowl – presented by Time Warner Cable. Kickoff for the 2011 NJCAA Football Championship at AWC’s Veterans Memorial Stadium is slated for 2:30 p.m. MT (3:30 p.m. CT). With video and audio production services provided by Meridian-based Prep Sports Network Now (www.psnnow.com), in conjunction with the NJCAA and Arizona Western College, Saturday’s national championship contest is scheduled to be...

He first joined the legislature back in 1980, now more than 30 years later democratic House Speaker Billy McCoy is putting down the gavel for good and retiring. It's a move some lawmakers say they expected. "He sent some signals that he was thinking about that and I had a number of conversations with him where he said he has not made up his mind," said Rep. Cecil Brown (D-Jackson). "He won under current districts by one vote. He became speaker by one vote," said Rep. Mark Baker, (R-Brandon). "I don't think those votes are there to re-elect him speaker."...

PARCHMAN, Miss. -- Paul Everette Woodward was put to death Wednesday at the State Penitentiary at Parchman.

At the direction of Governor Haley Barbour, MississippiRelief.com has been established. Our friend, Josh Gregory of the Magnolia Report was the key guy in getting this done. Most of the events of the Mississippi delegation at the Republican National Convention will turn into fundraisers with MississippiRelief.com as one of the primary beneficiaries.

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My 16 year old spotted this ugly spider residing between the house and grill this evening. The locale is Columbus, MS (northeast part of the state) Can anybody identify what kind of spider it is? This bugger was about 3 inches in length and 2 inches wide counting the legs. The body was about 3/4 inch long and about 3/8 inch wide. FYI: It is now a good spider. Smushed into a little pile of goo. http://myweb.cableone.net/jcdillon/images/Spider2%209-5-07.jpg

California corrections officials have begun sending hundreds of foreign national inmates against their will to a private prison in Mississippi as part of a stepped-up, out-of-state transfer plan. The first two flights of prisoners to the Tallahatchie County Detention Facility in Tutwiler, Miss., have taken place without incident, officials said, in spite of fears expressed by the California correctional officers union that the forced transfers would be met with inmate violence. [snip] Excerpt of Sac Bee Article

LOCUST FORK, Ala. (AP) - A Patriot Guard rider was killed this morning in a motorcycle crash while on his way to honor a Locust Fork soldier killed in Iraq. State Trooper Curtis Summerville says 57-year-old Paul S. Robbins of Prattville died at the scene when the motorcycle and truck collided. The driver of the truck was transported to the hospital with injuries. The 10:07 a.m. collision happened on Blount County 13 between Alabama 160 and Alabama 79, a few miles north of Locust Fork. Robbins was among other Patriot Guard riders on their way to a medal ceremony for...

Toyota Motor to build a parts factory in Mississippi Japanese automaker Toyota has announced plans to establish a parts factory in the southern US state of Mississippi. The company is going to invest around 200 million-dollar on this upcoming plant in the USA. Toyota said in a statement that Toyota Auto Body will establish Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi Inc. in August. They plan to hire 260 people for this plant which is expected to start production by 2010. This new plant will operate near a Toyota assembly plant which is already under construction in the village of Blue Springs. This...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge says Mississippi must have a party registration system and voter I-D laws in place by the summer of 2008. U-S District Judge W- Allen Pepper says political parties have a right to stop non-party members from voting in their primary elections. The lawsuit was filed in 2006 by plaintiffs wanting to stop non-Democrats from voting in Democratic primary elections. Pepper says ruling applies to all party primaries in Mississippi. Pepper's ruling was issued late yesterday (Friday). Plaintiffs attorney Ellis Turnage of Cleveland and Attorney General Jim Hood could not be reached for comment....

JACKSON - National cemeteries in Biloxi, Natchez and Corinth will participate Dec. 14 in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor veterans nationwide. The event is spearheaded by a Maine company and promoted by various veterans organizations, including Mississippi members of the Patriot Guard Riders. "Wreaths Across America" was started by Morrill Worcester, owner of Maine's largest wreath company. Annually, Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington, Maine, sends 5,000 wreaths to be placed on gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. This year, Worcester is donating 8,000 wreaths for ceremonies at nearly 230 veterans cemeteries and monuments in every state and Puerto Rico. The ceremonies...

KIA, Sgt Courtland Kennard, of Starkville, MS mission is a go. Not posted on the PGR website yet. The services will be this Saturday at 2 pm at the MT. PELIER MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 840 N. Jackson St. The Starkville staging area will be at the Starkville Police Department, 101 East Lampkin Street at 12:30 pm . The station is less than a block from the church. We will then escort to the cemetery after the services. According to a radio report here on the coast, Phelps and his group have stated that they plan on protesting Sgt. Courtland Kennard's...

A UA freshman and Iraq war veteran was shot dead Friday night after a car accident after leaving the Ying Yang Twins' Homecoming concert, police said. The death is Tuscaloosa's seventh homicide this month following a rash of shootings in recent weeks. Conrad Hollis, 21, was a passenger in a maroon Nissan Pathfinder that rear-ended an unidentified vehicle carrying a man and a woman. The drivers agreed that there was no damage and drove on instead of reporting the accident, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Ken Swindle said. When the vehicles reached the next red light, the man stepped out of the...

My son, a freshman in Mississippi public school, was given a book by another student today. The book is titled "The Truth For Youth". It is distributed by Revival Fires International, Tim Todd Ministries, out of West Monroe, LA. The book is made up of cartoon like "lessons" about such subjects as sex, pornography, homosexuality,aborthion, witchcraft, drugs, and more, and includes the text of the New Testament. The back page and back cover discuss the legal ramifications of distributing the books in schools. Not having previously heard of this group before, I am soliciting opinion from the most learned group...

We have been receiving numerous calls from (866) 325-2373 every day. When we answer, the caller hangs up. When we call back, the call is answered by an automated attendant. The company is not identified, all the operators are busy, and you have to leave a message. We have left a message several times telling them to take us off their call list. Our number is on the National No Call List and has been since the first day we could register. We have filed a complaint on the No Call website. Are other FReepers receiving these calls? I have...

Henry “Thumper” Yandle is helping organize a convoy scheduled to leave Meehan Junction Saturday morning to attend a memorial service in Laurel for Sgt. 1st Class Clarence McSwain. Yandle, and those traveling with him, will not only be going to pay their respects to McSwain’s family, they will try to shield the family from protesters who are also planning to arrive. “We basically stand between them and the family,” Yandle said. “We don’t want anybody coming who wants to cause trouble. We don’t confront these people. We let the authorities deal with that.” The fringe group planning to “picket” McSwain’s...

Editor: Democrats Prevailing I see that our Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck is getting fed up with our Bush-like Haley Barbour because of differences in their views on how to spend our taxes. First, she should have known that being a lobbyist for the big tobacco companies, that Barbour would do anything he can that would be beneficial to them, but Amy Tuck, being peeved off at Barbour, said she is going back to the Democratic Party which made me very angry. I wonder where she gets the audacity to think the Democratic Party would even want to have her back....

O.K. I'll make an attempt to tell what's going on down here right now. It's hard to do for several reasons. First, because there is so much , it's hard to talk about. Let's try to focus on the positive. You're right to be sick about New Orleans. They've turned into a bunch of animals over there. The idiots are shooting at the people who are trying to help them???? I think for the most part it's due to the frustration caused by the lack of response by their State Government....I mean, an SOS call? Give me a break. Everybody...

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