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Airboat arrives for Pearl River Adventures
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Airboat adventures on the Pearl River are just around the corner. The airboat purchased by Gary Blackwell of The Round Table, was delivered this week and Blackwell said he has everything in place t...
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Jon Luke Watts, a sophomore at Columbia Academy, recently qualified for the national Junior Olympic trials. CA runner gains national ranking
Columbia Academy cross country athlete Jon Luke Watts, an upcoming sophomore, won a bid to the national round of the Junior Olympics in the 15 to 16 age range. A third place finish in the 3000 me...
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Sales tax dips after trending upward
Columbia’s sales tax receipts were up over the 2009 figures, for three months in a row last month, when April figures were released. April 2010 receipts were $328,845.05, 8.3 percent over April 20...
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Perry’s new book due out soon.
A local author is excited that her second book is slated for release soon. Brandi Perry’s “A Whisper on the Bayou” will be available beginning Aug. 21. Her first novel, “Wayward Justice”, which c...
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West Marion summer program students play a math game to show off their multiplication skills at the program-end party last Wednesday. Learning is always in season at WM elementary
About 25 West Marion students, from kindergarten through sixth grade, spent up to three hours a day, four days a week during the past four weeks to improve the skills they will need to achieve hig...
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East Marion band director Steven Dixon talks with parents and students. Band work underway at East Marion
New East Marion band director Steven Dixon met with parents and many of his students Saturday afternoon. Band camp began Monday morning and Dixon welcomed the students with great enthusiasm. For p...
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Lightning strike causes fire at church
A lightning stike started a small fire at the Brushy Creek Baptist Church Sunday morning. Tri-Community firefighters were dispatched around 9:20 after witnesses said lightning struck the church an...
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Flash flood warning issued for Marion, Jefferson Davis and Lawrence counties
FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 850 AM CDT SUN JUL 25 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING...
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Crews at A-1 Buildings work on one of the structures. The interior of a building.	photos by Lori Watts A-1 Buildings
In November, A-1 Buildings, at 489 U.S. 98 East next to Wendy’s, will have been manufacturing custom wood- or metal- sided storage buildings in Columbia for 20 years. Owner Harvey Tullos said he w...
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Fire destroys home
A fast moving fire destroyed a home at 160 Good Hope Road Friday night. Firefighters from the Tri-Community Fire Department were dispatched around 8 p.m. to reports of flames coming from the home....
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Protesters celebrate at the Arizona capitol Wednesday, July 28, 2010 in Phoenix, only hours after portions of Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070, was blocked by a federal judge. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge's ruling that put most of the state's immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., gives thumbs up as he gets in the elevator to leave his office for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel said Thursday there's no deal yet to settle his ethics case and avoid an election-season trial on charges of violating House rules.


Thu Jul 29 12:41:51 -0500 2010

Former Arlington National Cemetery Deputy Superintendent Thurman Higginbotham, right, confers with his attorney while testifting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010, before the Senate Contracting Oversight subcommittee hearing to examine contract mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Estimates of the number of graves potentially affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery's former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.


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A fast moving fire destroyed a home at 160 Good Hope Road Friday night.
Fire destroys home
A fast moving fire destroyed a home at 160 Good Hope Road Friday night.
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