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Excerpt - Officials say a Harrah's shuttle bus carrying 42 passengers overturned on its way to the Tunica airport near Casino Strip Drive after losing control. According to eyewitnesses there are many injuries and multiple fatalities. ~ snip ~

ACKSON, Miss. (Dec. 5) - For Mississippian Rick Looser, the last straw came on an airline flight a couple of years ago when a 12-year-old Connecticut boy sitting next to him asked: "Do you still see the KKK on the streets every day?" That prompted the advertising executive to spend his own money on a campaign to dispel Mississippi's image as a forlorn state of poor, illiterate, racist good ole boys. "Mississippi has more black elected officials than any other state in the country," Looser said. "The old stereotype of the short, fat, white, bald men in suits smoking cigars...

Welcome to Myriad World Resorts The Myriad Botanical Resort is a multi-attraction, themed resort planned to be located in Tunica County, Mississippi. Covering 540 acres along the Mississippi River, the resort will be dominated by large, cable-supported enclosures reaching heights of over 200 feet. These enclosures will be translucent on their lateral sides and transparent above to allow light to support growth of world-class botanical gardens. These unique structures will also provide a climate-controlled environment for year-round enjoyment of the following: * 80,000 sq. ft. casino * 1,200 room 4-star hotel * 375,000 sq. ft. convention center * 250,000 sq....

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Mid-South gamblers may be able to knock back a few more drinks in Tunica, and then take the train home. The Mississippi Legislature Monday approved a transportation bill that includes $500,000 for a feasibility study of a monorail network that would link casinos to one another as well as connect to the Tunica Airport and Southaven. The light rail line could even reach into Shelby County, connecting to the proposed Memphis rail system that is to link Midtown with Memphis International Airport. The bill is now on the desk of Mississippi...

Six months after the start of scheduled air service, Pan Am made its official departure from Tunica County. The last flight took off from the Tunica Airport on Oct. 8. Since May, Pan Am had operated three flights a week from Atlanta to Tunica. County administrator Clifton Johnson attributes the exodus to internal problems within the Pan Am organization. According to Johnson, Pan Am recently lost a major route from Orlando to Puerto Rico. “During the time of their contract with us, they lost both of those flights out of Orlando. That’s where they were staging their Atlanta to Tunica...

Harrah's Casino continues its contributions to the recovery of the Mississippi Gulf Coast region with a star-studded benefit concert at 3:30 p.m. this Sunday at Grand Casino's Grand Tunica Event Center. Performers Wayne Newton, Lee Ann Womack, Chris Isaak and Neal McCoy; actresses Brittany Murphy and Bo Derek; and comedians Paul Rodriguez and Sinbad are among the celebrities slated to appear at the event, which will benefit the Mississippi Law Enforcement and Firefighter Katrina Relief Fund, a charity established to help the first responders who stayed on the job following Hurricane Katrina despite great personal loss."I didn't even get out...

http://www.tunicamiss.org/ If you're free this Sunday afternoon, take in a series of great performances and enjoy a leisure afternoon of fun in The Delta!

The Grand Casino's Veranda Hotel was evacuated on Friday morning after three sticks of dynamite were found in a hotel room. Workers were changing furniture when they discovered what looked like dynamite under a bed. Police say there was no cap, fuse, or detonator. The hotel was evacuated and bomb-sniffing dogs searched the entire facility, but nothing else was found. The Tunica County Sheriff's Department turned the dynamite over to the Memphis Police Department Bomb Squad.

MARION, Ark. (AP) - A bus carrying Chicago-area tourists to a Mississippi casino crashed and overturned early Saturday, killing at least 14 people, state police said. The bus crashed on Interstate 55 in northeastern Arkansas, near Memphis, Tenn. Authorities believe it was headed to Tunica, Miss., a popular destination for casino gambling, when the accident happened about 5 a.m., state police spokesman Bill Sadler said. An undetermined number of other passengers were injured and taken to hospitals. Thirty people were aboard the bus, which was the only vehicle involved in the crash. Some of the dead were found crushed beneath...

One of the leading European newspapers, Le Matin, of Paris, describes G. Gordon Liddy as "a man of fantastic intelligence and complexity." Educated privately by Benedictines and Jesuits, Mr. Liddy earned a B.S. degree from Fordham University and an Ll.D. from the Fordham Law School, graduating as a member of The Law Review. After two years service as an Army artillery officer during the Korean War, Mr. Liddy entered the FBI as a Special Agent, rapidly earned multiple commendations from the late J. Edgar Hoover and, at age 29, became the youngest Bureau Supervisor at FBI national headquarters in Washington,...