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Amory to change animal ordinance
Seventeen residences in primarily two of Amory’s wards have pit bulldogs on the premises.
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Tenn-Tom closes some campgrounds temporarily
Blue Bluff Campground in Aberdeen will remain closed until April 15.
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Wrecker policy still being revised
A new policy for wrecker service in the city is still being revised before possible final approval on March 16.
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Free smoke detectors being offered
The Amory Fire Department is giving away free home smoke detectors to the needy and/or elderly.
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Former Amory woman part of Haiti relief effort
Seeks donations for antibiotics, medical supplies.
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Voter ID gets place on Miss. ballot in Nov. 2011
Petitioners gathered more than enough signatures to put a voter ID initiative on Mississippi’s November 2011 ballot.
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At-risk students harness their inner-champions
Graduation season may be a couple of months away, but a group of Aberdeen High School students were entitled to bragging rights after completing several weeks of the Champions Within program.
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UPDATE: Howell unofficial winner of Aberdeen School Board election
Unofficial winner in Aberdeen School Board election: Patricia Reese Howell
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The Aberdeen Budget: We're broke, son!
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The City of Aberdeen will unveil its fiscal year 2010 budget to the public next week (Tuesday, September 8). What does this budget mean for Aberdeen and its citizens? This is probably the most imp...
The id of ID: Why the call for voter ID goes against the instinct to vote fraudulently
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Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann made some interesting points regarding voter fraud in Mississippi and his office's push for voter ID during his visit to North Monroe County recently. Hosema...
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2007, file photo released by the University of Wisconsin Medical School shows a virtual colonoscopy, a 3-D image that was computer-generated from a series of X-rays taken by a CT scanner. Virtual colonoscopies are just one of the many costly medical tests that recent reports have said are being done too often. (AP Photo/ Courtesy of Dr. Perry J. Pickhardt/ University of Wisconsin Medical School, file)AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.


Fri Mar 12 06:04:15 -0600 2010

Firemen and rescue personnel work at the site of the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.(AFP/File/Marcos Townsend)AP - A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair.


Fri Mar 12 06:04:39 -0600 2010

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago.


Fri Mar 12 06:05:32 -0600 2010

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is photographed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Fulton, Miss., a day after the high school announced they wouldn't hold the senior prom April 2. McMillen wanted to bring a same-sex date and wear a tuxedo. (AP Photo/Matthew Sharpe)AP - A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled


Fri Mar 12 06:57:05 -0600 2010