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Rape investigation closed
Columbia Police have closed an investigation into an alleged rape which occurred last Thursday. Police received a call around 10 a.m. from Wal Mart that a woman claimed a rape had occurred at the ...
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Jeff Dungan goes over the plans at the meeting. Photo by Mark Rogers Spirit of cooperation
County, city work together on solid waste transfer facility
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Fire destroys Foxworth home
A home outside Foxworth was destroyed early Friday morning, but the occupants were not home when the fire broke out. “Thank goodness there was nobody here,” said David Murray, a nephew of the owne...
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JA seeks Citizen of the Year nominations
The Columbia Chapter of the Junior Auxiliary is currently accepting nominations for their annual Citizen of the Year award. The award recognizes a citizen who has contributed to the community in a...
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Appreciation showing for local troops
The Marion County Military Support Group and the Family Readiness Group of E Company 1-155 CAB prepared a display at the Marion County Library to welcome home the troops returning from Iraq. The...
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Artist Karl Wolfe designed this window at the Columbia Presbyterian Church. Photo by Lori Watts Columbia Presbyterians to celebrate 100 years
On Sunday, March 21, the Columbia Presbyterian Church will celebrate its centennial with a reception from 2 to 3 p.m. in the church fellowship hall. “We invite everyone to come celebrate this occa...
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Hope amid the rubble in Haiti
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Brown recalls recent trip
Police investigate alleged rape
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Columbia police are continuing their investigation into an alleged rape that occurred Thursday at Wal Mart. Police received a call around 10 a.m. according to Chief Jim Kinslow. “The alleged inci...
Police investigate alleged rape
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Columbia police are continuing their investigation into an alleged rape that occurred Thursday at Wal Mart. Police received a call around 10 a.m. according to Chief Jim Kinslow. “The alleged inci...
Columbia woman dies in accident
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A Columbia woman was killed Tuesday night when the vehicle she was driving left the roadway and struck a tree stump on Mississippi 13 South near Hub. Carla Michelle Day Edwards, 42, died at Marion...
Consultant hired to check city’s procedures
by Lori Watts, Staff Writer
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The Columbia Board of Aldermen voted to hire Charles Robert Prince, CPA, to provide accounting consulting services to the city to assist in upgrading financial statements, statements of fixed asset...
Storm spotter class set
by Mark Rogers, Managing Editor
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People interested in storm spotting now have a chance to learn about thunderstorms and severe weather at training session to be held in Columbia on March 25. “Someone from the National Weather Ser...
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Obama, Democrats push hard ahead of health vote (AP)

Clinic workers hold signs and chant during a rally in support of US President Barack Obama's health care reform package in Oakland, California, on March 17. US President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a planned trip to Asia in favor of making an 11th-hour drive to see his historic health care overhaul through a cliffhanger Sunday vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining another precious "yes" 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.


Fri Mar 19 12:54:34 -0500 2010
Obama rallies support for final health care votes (AP)

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health insurance reform during his event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned: "If this vote fails."


Fri Mar 19 13:45:44 -0500 2010
Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq (AP)

A man walks through the rubble of a building belonging to the former Iraqi army, and destroyed during the air campaign in the early stages of the war, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 19, 2010. Almost seven years after the first bombs fell in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope. (AP Photo / Khalid Mohammed)AP - Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.


Fri Mar 19 13:01:32 -0500 2010