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City seeks new sewer, water grants
The Columbia Board of Aldermen approved the pursuit of another Community Development Block Grant ( CDBG ) to rehabilitate some water and sewage lines in Columbia. Jason Hicks, of Sample and Associ...
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John Wayne Tolar Neighborhood Watch meeting attracts a crowd
A Crime Watch program is now part of the city’s Meadowood subdivision, and a meeting Tuesday night drew a large crowd. Residents are concerned about the number of robberies, which include break-in...
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Sheriff Berkley Hall looks over one of the new holding cells in the jail addition. Photo by Mark Rogers A look behind bars
Open house at jail set
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Shuttle diplomacy
Pioneer honored for role in Space Shuttle program
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On the move
Factory Connection relocates
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Meth lab smoked out by task force
Officers of the Marion County Sheriff’s office, the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics seized an active methamphetamine lab when they served a search wa...
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Churches unite in ‘Hope for Haiti’
by Mark Rogers, Managing Editor
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They entered the church carrying their buckets full of supplies for victims of the deadly earthquake in Haiti. By the time the evening was over, a trailer was loaded with more than 1,000 buckets ...
Black history celebrated
by Mark Rogers, Managing Editor
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“Do you have a story to tell?” that was the questioned asked by Ella Ruth Johnson at Saturday night’s 22nd annual Mar-ion County Black History Celebra-tion Dinner. Johnson, CEO of Safe Haven Mini-...
New Chief on a mission
by Lori Watts, Staff Writer
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Columbia’s new chief of police, Jim Kinslow, promised to be available to the citizens of the city, Friday when he addressed the Marion County Development Partnership Catchy Friday meeting. Tony Moz...
Changes coming to CCLG board
by Lori Watts, Staff Writer
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The Columbia Certified Local Government Board met Tuesday evening, after a long period of what some members described as a deficiency of communication among the members. Ann Simmons called the me...
Local guardsmen coming home
by Lori Watts, Staff Writer
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The soldiers of 155th E Company CAB will be returning from Iraq by the end of March, according to Pamela Holmes of the Family Readiness Group. Holmes said the members of the local National Guard ...
Pushing it to the limit
by Mark Rogers, Managing Editor
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The engines roared and tires squealed as police cars rounded the turns and zipped through traffic cones. The tarmac of the Columbia Airport was a training ground for officers from several departme...
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Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.


Wed Mar 10 02:20:58 -0600 2010
Biden's West Bank tour clouded by settlement plans (AP)

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, and his wife Jill, second from left, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his wife Sara, second from right, pose for photographers ahead of their joint dinner the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israel's new plan to build 1,600 apartments for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday.


Wed Mar 10 04:09:22 -0600 2010
Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list (AP)

Graphic shows process of determining who gets on the Federal No-Fly listAP - It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home.


Wed Mar 10 04:05:30 -0600 2010