Mississippi Declares 'B.B. King Day'
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Blues great B.B. King wiped away tears and spoke a few words of thanks at the Mississippi Capitol as the state House and Senate declared B.B. King Day.
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The fate of 50,000 plus Mississippians is back in the hands of the legislature. Today, it was announced before Judge Henry Wingate in federal court that the plaintiffs and defendants had reached
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - The families of two black teenagers who were abducted and murdered in a 1964 Mississippi race crime set up a memorial to them on Friday, one day after a former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of kidnapping in the case.
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VICKSBURG, Miss. - The Mississippi River reopened to traffic a day after a burning barge shut it down, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday.  Traffic began moving through the area on Friday night, said Coast Guard public affairs officer Lt. Leon McClain.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun.
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By Anonymous  GULFPORT - The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) held a public hearing December 13 at 6 p.m.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 24--GULFPORT -- Compared with storm recovery she deemed "a joke" in New Orleans, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said Mississippi should be praised.
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Legendary blues musician B.B. King, former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky and historian David McCullough were among those awarded the Medal of Freedom on Friday by President George W. Bush.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will build sport utility vehicles in Mississippi, Governor Haley Barbour announced Tuesday, creating roughly 2,000 jobs and making it the automaker's fifth U.S. assembly plant.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will attend the Martin Luther King Day memorial service in Atlanta on Monday.
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December 13 2004 1340CET -On Republic Day each year, the President, on behalf of the Government and people of Malta, pays public tribute to a number of Maltese citizens who dsitinguish themselves in different ...
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 19--Unless someone comes forward to claim him, the pedestrian accidentally killed Monday in Biloxi will join Harrison County's three other unclaimed bodies.
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Americans paused Monday to remember Martin Luther King and his legacy. A commemorative service marking the King holiday was planned at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was preacher from 1960 until his assassination in 1968 at age 39, and thousands of people were expected to take part in an afternoon rally and march through downtown Atlanta.
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Hundreds of civil rights leaders and others crowded Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to the celebrate the man and his legacy.
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss.  - A suspected Ku Klux  Klansman pleaded not guilty on Friday to the 1964 murders of  three civil rights workers in Mississippi, one of the most  notorious civil rights-era crimes in the United States.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 17--More than 3,000 volunteers crawled over the beach like ants, making South Mississippi a little more tidy as 2006 Mississippi Coastal Cleanup rolled along Saturday morning.
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On the same day the nation honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the first black leader of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was installed Monday as archbishop in King's native city.