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August 17, 2002
By By Marty Stamper/EMG sports assistant August 17, 2002 DECATUR The defending Class 3A state champion Newton County Lady Cougars opened their 2002 sl...
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By Staff August 11, 2002 Ronnie Shows has had better weeks. First, he gave an unremarkable performance in an Aug. 1 debate with Chip Pickering at the ...
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By Staff August 11, 2002 President Bush slammed Mississippi this week for driving doctors out of business, or out of the state, by failing to pass tor...
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By Staff August 11, 2002 Democratic state Rep. Walter Robinson of Bolton has summed up the debate in Mississippi over tort reform. A funeral director ...
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By Staff Senate Democrats stall Bush agenda To the editor: I am disappointed by the Senate Democrat lack of leadership and continued record of inactio...
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By Staff August 11, 2002 His message no doubt displeased Mississippi's trial lawyers, but President Bush sided emphatically with the business com...
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By Staff August 11, 2002 Several letter-writers have underscored something we already knew the staging of the 14 Year Old Babe Ruth Southwest Regional...
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By Staff August 11, 2002 City officials are taking steps to acquire a second truck equipped to spray neighborhoods for the pesky mosquitoes that can c...
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By By Steve Gillespie / staff writer August 17, 2002 After serving time in jail, he entered the Righteous Oaks Recovery Center program. Fanning has be...
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