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Houston Junior Legion tryouts
The Houston Travelers Junior American Legion/summer ball team will hold open tryouts May 16 at 3:30 p.m.
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ICC softball Breast Cancer Awareness Day a great success
The Itawamba Community College softball team took on Snead State and breast cancer awareness in the program’s first-ever Lady Indians Breast Cancer Awareness Day on Thursday.
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Four local gymnasts head to regional competition
Four members of Elite Gymnastics II in Tupelo will compete with the Mississippi team Sunday, April 9, at the Level 8 Region VIII Gymnastics Championships in Marietta, Ga.
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Pontotoc High School tennis report
The Pontotoc High tennis team is still winning.
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The winning Powerball number is shown after being drawn at the Florida Lottery studio in TallahasseeBy Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the largest jackpots in U.S. history. The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11. The odds of winning were put at 1 in 175 million. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery. ...


Sun May 19 11:23:19 UTC 2013

City of Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson holds a news conference in Harrisburg PennsylvaniaBy Hilary Russ (Reuters) - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-hungry capital city, local political battles are waged much as they are across the United States: with big personalities and bare-knuckled verbal brawls. But unlike most cities, Harrisburg's financial troubles have thrust it into the national spotlight, most recently with a slap from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud. Financing for a single incinerator has been driving the city toward insolvency since 2009. The $3.7 trillion U.S. ...


Sun May 19 09:30:28 UTC 2013
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A 21-year-old university student who was taken hostage in her apartment and then shot to death during a police standoff with an armed robber on New York's Long Island was killed by a bullet fired from an officer's gun, investigators said on Sunday. Andrea Rebello was shot in the head on Friday by one of eight rounds fired at Dalton Smith, who had the woman in a headlock with a 9mm gun pointed at her head at the time, Nassau County Police Department spokesman James Imperiale said. ...
Sun May 19 15:16:16 UTC 2013
A series of 16 violent tornadoes ransacked north Texas this week, killing six people and flattening entire neighborhoods. Seven people who were reported missing early Friday morning have now been accounted for, but the storms aren't over yet. Severe thunderstorms are expected late Friday in Alabama and Mississippi, and the Plains and the Midwest face [...]
Fri May 17 19:53:22 UTC 2013