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Dalrymples donate building for new learning center
A gift from a family with deep roots in the city’s educational system will turn into a new learning center for the Amory School District.
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New 50-room hotel opens in Amory
A new hotel held grand opening ceremonies recently.
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Wesley Smith Former inmate arrested for scam
On November 13 the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department was notified by the Mississippi Department of Corrections Criminal Investigative Division of a possible scam that involved a recent paroled in...
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UPDATE:Aberdeen board meeting
Charter, collections and commercial garbage routes heated topics at Aberdeen board meeting.
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Aberdeen Bulldogs radio controversy continues
As of Tuesday at noon, there have been no plans made to bring the Bulldogs back on the radio for Friday night’s playoff game against Winona.
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Charles Coleman Two probationers rearrested on meth charges
Monroe County Sheriff Andy Hood announced that on November 13 officers from the Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) were conducting a home visit with Stephanie Rena Kennedy. Kennedy,...
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NATURE'S PALETTE
Daily Journal photographer C. Todd Sherman captured these fleeting images of fall’s most vibrant colors recently in Northeast Mississippi.
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Carrie Hicks Two arrested on meth lab charges
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department answered a call about a disturbance on Wren Village Road October 31 in Monroe County. When deputies arrived they found that 30-year-old Dennis Gasper...
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Monroe County sees huge voter turnout
by Jeff Clark/Monroe Journal
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Voters in Monroe County turned out in record numbers November 4 to help select, among other things, the next President of the U.S.
Board suspends Shumpert, Hazzle Jr.
by Jeff Clark/Monroe Journal
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The Aberdeen Board of Aldermen voted to suspend indicted city employees Javan Shumpert and Roy Hazzle Jr.
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE SCOREBOARD
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Scores from Mississippi college teams Saturday.
No. 6 comes with a shutout for Rebels
by Brandon Speck
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OXFORD - Ole Miss did exactly what a bowl team is supposed to do to a lesser opponent. Fitting, since bowl talk is all the Rebel faithful seem to be talking about these days. In a win that made it...
Aberdeen finds a way in round two
by Brandon Speck
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ABERDEEN – Trailing 21-0 at halftime of their Class 3A MHSAA second round playoff game against Ripley, Aberdeen was dead in the water, literally. In a steady rain at Lester Miley Stadium, Aberdeen...
MONROE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD
by Monroe Journal
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Aberdeen wins, while Amory and Smithville fall.
national news

Rev. Amos Brown,  a national board member of the NAACP, raises his hands as he speaks to a large crowd of supporters of same-sex marriage, as they cheer in front of San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008.  Thousands of demonstrators gathered to listen to speakers and protest the passage of Proposition 8, a ballot measure amending California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The event is part of a simultaneous protest planned in in hundreds of communities.  (AP Photo/Darryl Bush)AP - California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.


Wed Nov 19 21:17:36 -0800 2008

In this image from NASA TV, a tool  kit bag, top right, floats to the right and rear of the International Space Station, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. The bag was being used by astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper during a scheduled 6 1/2-hour  spacewalk. Stefanyshyn-Piper lost grasp of it during a procedure and it floated away. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting over the whole thing.


Wed Nov 19 21:11:14 -0800 2008

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, left, and Vice President Dick Cheney are shown in this 2006 file photo at the White House. Cheney and Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)AP - A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.


Wed Nov 19 21:20:36 -0800 2008

Robert Korbe, center, is led to the Allegheny County Police headquarters in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Korbe is in federal custody in connection with the shooting of FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks,  who was taking part in a drug-ring roundup, and shot  in Indiana Township, a suburban middle class community about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - An FBI agent trying to arrest a cocaine-dealing suspect at a home near Pittsburgh was killed Wednesday by the man's wife, who might have thought she was shooting an intruder, authorities said.


Wed Nov 19 19:01:59 -0800 2008