http://www.sunherald.com/218/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from SunHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 SunHerald.com State 60 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:53:22 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@SunHerald.com http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466628.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466628.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:52 CDT "The Devil's Punchbowl" (Scribner, 480 pages, $26.95), by Greg Iles: Riverboat casino manager Jonathan Sands has a refined English accent that reverts to a coarse, working-class Irish manner of speech in situations where he reveals his true, villainous nature. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466544.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466544.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:32 CDT Marion County deputies have arrested four men in connection to a fatal shooting. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466532.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466532.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:27 CDT A Forrest County Grand Jury has returned an indictment against 36-year-old Susan Renee Blackwell of Petal for filing fraudulent Mississippi income tax returns, computer fraud and forgery. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466521.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466521.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:17 CDT A month-long fugitive sweep has resulted in the arrest of 232 violent offenders in Mississippi. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466511.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466511.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:07 CDT Property value has gone up by more than 11 percent in Washington County, but it remains uncertain whether property taxes will follow suit. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466478.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466478.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:37 CDT A new post-Hurricane Katrina study will look at the resilience of coastal communities in Mississippi and Alabama. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466471.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466471.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:27 CDT The former congregation of Brookhaven's only Jewish temple has agreed to its conversion into a local history museum. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466473.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466473.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:27 CDT Three Mississippians are among the more than 100 recipients of Presidential Awards for Excellence for teachers or mentors in mathematics, engineering and science. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466438.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466438.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:42 CDT At just 19 years old, Sahel Kazemi thought she had it all: She was dating former NFL star Steve McNair, partying in VIP rooms and vacationing in Las Vegas. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466112.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466112.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:22 CDT Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466065.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1466065.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:52 CDT The arrests this week of a Little League coach, a registered nurse and a teacher during the largest coordinated raids on dogfighting in U.S. history confirm the shadowy blood sport is alive and well despite tough laws across the country. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465962.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465962.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:23 CDT McNeese State women's basketball coach Brooks Williams has named former Ole Miss standout Jada Mincy to an assistant coaching position. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465877.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465877.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:17 CDT Steve McNair's former teammates remembered his smile and called him a warrior. His coach recalled how the ex-NFL quarterback bounced back from a very painful injury that had him ready to quit the game. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465802.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465802.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:43 CDT Former Natchez Alderman Theodore "Bubber" West has been arrested for allegedly failing to put money from prepaid funeral policies into a proper trust. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465766.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465766.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:52 CDT The end of slavery meant a kind of beginning for the family histories of many African-Americans: For the first time, the enslaved people's identities and family connections became part of a public record. And the huge task of recording that data fell to the federal Freedmen's Bureau. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465677.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465677.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17 CDT Mississippi Public Service Commission chairman Lynn Posey said Thursday it would cost the state less than $250,000 a year if the PSC were allowed to hire three new staff members. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465209.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465209.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:23 CDT Authorities have identified two teenage brothers killed in a one-car crash in Jackson. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465158.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1465158.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:18 CDT Federal authorities want to take $1.89 million and an airplane allegedly used in a multimillion dollar scheme to sell contraband cigarettes in the Southeast. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1464907.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1464907.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:27 CDT Tennessee state officials say they had been preparing a youth suicide prevention public service announcement featuring former NFL quarterback Steve McNair before he was shot and killed last week. http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1464750.html http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1464750.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:47 CDT The state Board of Health has voted to allow counties with a population of 140,000 or more to have two hospitals.