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NEW ORLEANS -- Two hundred years ago, the first steamboat meandered down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, taking more than four months to reach New Orleans.
DIAMONDHEAD -- Diamondhead’s prospective mayor Chuck Ingraham made one of his first public appearances Friday following the Mississippi Supreme Court upholding his group’s plan for incorporation.
GULFPORT -- Police believe it’s a fluke that the girl Jermel Bogan is accused of running over and leaving for dead was a distant relative.
GAUTIER -- Prior to finalizing regulations for surveying and drilling for gas and oil in state waters, the Mississippi Development Authority held a meeting in Gautier on Friday at which Coast residents could gather information and voice their opinions.
PASS CHRISTIAN -- Andrew Zimmern -- TV host, author and award-winning chef -- peeked into a box of crawfish that were about to go for a swim in a well-seasoned pot of boiling water.
PASCAGOULA -- Moss Point and Pascagoula needed overtime to decide the Division 7-5A basketball championship.
Members of First Baptist Church of Lyman believe in reaching out to the community.
WASHINGTON -- The lower-than-expected annualized growth rate of 2.8 percent reported Friday for the final three months of 2011 raises doubts about the strength of the U.S. recovery and concerns that 2012 may be another year of muddling along.
The more that is revealed about former-Gov. Haley Barbour’s pardons, the curiouser and curiouser the process seems to have been.
The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million gallons higher than what the government later believed spilled daily from the site.
Washington wildlife officials say eight sea lions have been found dead in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks - all apparently shot.
A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause.